Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Four stars They may not have been tram related, but the roadworks blocking the bus stop on Lothian Road immediately following this fifty-minute 'rapid response' to the seven-year carry-on that has been the Edinburgh Trams project spoke volumes about the vagaries of civic planners who seemingly give little thought to the everyday consequences of their decisions. Put together by director Joe Douglas via a series of interviews with those in Edinburgh affected one way or another by the major city centre upheavals caused by the tram-works, what is effectively an extended dramatised vox pop is performed by actors Jonathan Holt and Nicola Roy, with musical accompaniment by composer and singer David Paul Jones on piano. In an initially comic but increasingly poignant series of exchanges related by the actors via recordings of the interviews relayed through mobile phone ear-pieces, we hear from the small business people whose livelihoods were a
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