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ED FRINGE 2011 : One Thousand Paper Cranes – Assembly

Writer: Abigail Docherty Director: Lu Kemp Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★½☆☆ Docherty’s tale is based on a true story of two Japanese girls Sadako and Chiziko who when just two years old the Atomic Bomb was dropped in the village of Hiroshima, ten years later during a school sports day Sadako running the 600 meters fell [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011: Cloud Man – Remarkable Arts

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Cloudia has been an avid cloud spotter since she was little, especially since the time she discovered belongings that had fallen from the sky belonging to the shy and hard to find Cloud Men. This tender and easy going production aimed for 4-8 years olds has a beautiful picture book feel [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 INTERVIEW: Ten Minutes With…Jeff Achtem

When Jeff Achtem made his Ed Fringe debut in 2010, his shadow puppet show ‘Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones’ created quite a buzz. Critics and festival-goers alike loved the colourful puppet characters, which Achtem creates by using pieces of junk, and he went home that year with several awards, including Best Newcomer. Now the Canadian native [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 : The Monster in the Hall – The Traverse

Writer: David Greig Director: Guy Hollands Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★★ Sometimes plays aimed at young people severely miss the mark, they are either too preachy and leave a sickly sweet saccharine aftertaste or are so patronising that you have lost interest within the first 5 minutes, thankfully TAG Theatre Company and The Citizens Theatre, know [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 : The Dark Philosophers – The Traverse

Writer: Carl Grose & Told by an Idiot/National Theatre Wales Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Based on the dark short stories of Gwyn Thomas; the youngest of 12 children who was brought up, raised and lived in the Rhondda Valley until the day he died. This production celebrates not only the man himself [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 : Futureproof – Taverse Theatre

Writer: Lynda Radley Director: Dominic Hill Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Things are changing in society, religion and science have began to take its toll on Robert Riley’s travelling oddity show, trying as hard as he can, Riley makes several changes to his line-up forgetting about the unwritten order of oddities, this change and desire to [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 : In the Dust – Zoo Southside

In the Dust - Ed Fringe

Choreographers: Tom Dale, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Tamsin Fitzgerald Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ It has to be said that it is refreshing to see something on the fringe with such vitality and freshness especially coming from this large all male dance ensemble. Three pieces of dance are combined to make an full hours worth of high octane [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011: A Slow Air – Traverse

Writer/Director: David Harrower Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ We are meant to be close to our family; we are told that blood is thicker than water and that nothing could or should ever come between us…but life isn’t that easy and at times we are tested to the extremes, sometimes ripping our family apart for years [...]

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