‘A story that bubbles with laughter one minute & tension the next’: REVELATIONS – Edinburgh Fringe

Summerhall, Edinburgh – until 26 August 2018

It’s a story that sweeps you up in a mixture of warmth, humour and tragedy.

Revelations is the final part of a trilogy following the lives of James, Emma, Sarah and Tom – although it works as a standalone as I hadn’t seen the first two.

Told as a monologue through the eyes of James (James Rowlands) who has been friends with Sarah since they were kids, Sarah is now married to Emma who is a human rights lawyer.

This is the story of what happens when Sarah and Emma ask James to be their sperm donor so they can have a child.

There are plenty of flashbacks and references to earlier incidents for context but what follows is a story that bubbles with laughter one minute and tension the next.

Rowlands has a (very) small keyboard set up on stage and periodically will record and loop music and sung dialogue which plays along in the background – sometimes a little obtrusively as he yells to be heard over the top.

Rev Stan

Revstan really is a reverend (it's amazing what you can buy on the internet) but not a man (the Stan bit is a long story). By day, she is a freelance editor and copywriter; at night, she escapes into the world of theatre and has been blogging about it at theatre.revstan.com since 2007. She says: “I'll watch pretty much anything, from something performed on a stage the size of a tea tray to the West End and beyond. The only exception is musicals. Tried 'em and they just don't do anything positive for me.”