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‘Strangely fascinating but oddly frustrating entertainment’: THE DARK CARNIVAL – Edinburgh ★★★

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin8th March 2019Leave a Comment

In The Dark Carnival Vanishing Point and The Citizens (in association with Dundee Rep Ensemble) have crafted a strangely fascinating but oddly frustrating entertainment – theatre-cum-gig-cum-cabaret that impresses in fits and starts.

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TABULA RASA – Touring

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin13th November 2017Leave a Comment

Tabula Rasa at the Traverse is a collaboration between Scottish Ensemble and Vanishing Point that contains moments of heartfelt beauty but never coheres.

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CHARLIE SONATA – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin5th May 2017Leave a Comment

Three friends from university in the 1990s occasionally stage reunions that show how two of them – Gary and Jackson – have moved on to careers and respectability (or something approximating to them), while Chick remains a drifting figure, wedded to alcohol.

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THE DESTROYED ROOM – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin10th March 2016Leave a Comment

★★★★☆ A lens, darkly:
It is impossible to tell where the theatre starts and ends in Matthew Lenton’s brilliant, dense and lethally of-the-moment The Destroyed Room, at the Traverse to Saturday before touring to London “and beyond”.

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SPECTRETOWN – Edinburgh Fringe

In Regional theatre, Reviews by Thom Dibdin15th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ Diffuse and troubling:
SpectreTown, Stoirm Òg’s co-production with Cumbernauld Theatre, lacks focus and seems to be flying off in different directions at the same time. This leads to a production that is almost wilfully confusing, but has an undeniable power.

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