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Fringe 2007 Reviews (3)
Lemons Are For Emergencies
Only
By Claire Titelman
Claires Kitchen
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
Claire Titelman, best known for her role on the hit American show Veronica
Mars, brings to Edinburgh a story of deviled eggs, birthdays, picnics,
lemons and an event that haunts a young girl's life.
In Lemons we are allowed into the private isolated world of
a girl who has become detached from normal life and her family. She
takes us on a journey from childhood happy days to the day that changed
her life and made her feel nothing for anything.
Claire Titelman does the triple wammy on this wonderfuly enchanting
and at times haunting show. Writing, directing and starring in Lemons,
she puts in a wonderfully sweet and intense performance to a peice of
intimate, funny and unsettling theatre. Very well written and beautiful
performed by a wonderful talent.
Lemons is a show that makes you laugh, remember, squirm and
want to follow the career of Claire Titelman with a watchful eye.
Wayne Miller
Curse of the Werewolf
By Tim Kelly
Venue2Venue
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Arthouse
**
If enthusiasm made for good theatre, Curse of the Werewolf would
be at least four stars. Unfortunately, performance and content count
for something, too - and in these departments this whodunit murder caper
is severely lacking.
While Kelly's script sports a few clever lines, and cast members Rosie
Cohen, Darla Eno, and Danny Rhodes play their characters with particular
verve, the rest of the production is lacklustre.
Kelly's script is plodding and slow, taking far too long to get to
the setup of the plot. When we do finally get a hint of exactly what's
going on, it's too late and really not engaging enough to justify actually
sitting through.
Rachel Lynn Brody
Scared Scriptless
Watchthis
Underbelly
**
Improvised comedy in theatre can be difficult to judge, with every
show being entirely different, the weight fall mainly upon the cast
and their ability to bring forth some comedy from the ideas in play.
Scared Scriptless is another show from Watchthis much in the
same vein as last year's Up Script Creek, the only notable difference
being that the overall idea is to make an improvised Horror rather than
an action and adventure story.
Whether it's guessing the inane additions from the audience or trying
to make a plausible villain from John Simmons the humour is quite variable.
What became apparent early into this show was that there simply hadn't
been enough thought into making the different scenes connect in any
way. Instead this was watching a show which tried to be two different
things; and failing at both.
The actors at work did what they could but could never escape from
the muddle of a format that they were confined within. Had the show
tried to be more of a story then it might have succeded, otherwise it
might suit them far better to stick to a straight improvised comedy
set.
Graeme Strachan
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