Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 Theatre choice 3 - To Move in Time / Wrestling Mania! / I'm OKfabe / Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana do Commentary and Comedy to Bad Wrestling Matches
To
Move in Time
Summerhall
Until
August 24, 5.05-6.05pm.
This
latest work from Sheffield-based Forced Entertainment moves away from the
ensemble work pioneered by one of the UK’s leading live art companies over the
last thirty-five years to an intimate monologue penned by company co-founder
Tim Etchells and created in partnership with actor Tyrone Huggins, who performs
it.
Etchells’
starting point for his unnamed protagonist is to speculate what he’d do if he
possessed the power to jump back and forward in time. From initial fantasies of
manipulating history to influence both the present and the future or else get
rich quick on being able to foresee how things pan out, Etchells and Huggins
move away from sci-fi narratives to a dizzying philosophical inquiry into
values, priorities, what needs to be cared for in the world and how those
values might change, as past, present and future collide.
Wrestling
Mania!
PBH’s
Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex until August 24, 3pm
I’m OKayfabe
Just
the Sanctum until August 25, 10pm
Brendon
Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches!
Monkey
Barrel until August 27, 10.20pm
With
1980s women’s wrestling dramady G.L.O.W. back on Netflix, there is not one-ah,
not two-ah, but three-ah grunt n’ grapple based shows on the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe this year. Following An Audience With Gorgeous George a few years back,
Wrestling Mania! is performer and wrestling fan Alex Brockie’s latest foray
into the squared circle, and focuses on the travails of a novice small-time
promoter trying to get a stranglehold on the industry.
I’m
OKayfabe sees comic performers Josephine Timmins and Janina Smith getting to
grips with notions of female stereotypes as they indulge in some real life
body-slams. Finally, as the title suggests, Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do
Commentary and Comedy to Bad Wrestling Matches sees stand-up Burns and wrestler
Cabana wisecrack their way through an hour’s worth of vintage clips of matches
made legendary for all the wrong reasons. Seconds out…
The Herald, August 17th 2019
ends
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