Fundamentally, this is the story of Edgar’s life to date, told earnestly while preserving a cheeky comedic touch; nothing is hidden from view, even amidst the humour. While Edgar’s performance won’t win awards, I feel a certain quality would be lost if an actor had played his part. Who could be more qualified to tell his story than him?
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★★★★☆ Working in collaboration with UCL Neuroscience Prof Kate Jeffrey, Theatre Re under the direction of Guillaume Pigé, took three years of research and improvised experimentation to make this piece, which was a British Council Edinburgh showcase production last year.
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I’d be less than surprised if displayed somewhere in Sally Cookson’s study was the rubric, ‘Anything film can do I can do better with just imagination and people’. Ms. Cookson, with her accustomed imagination and gravity defying puissance has again exercised her ability to give the inner an outward reality.
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★★★★☆ This was a more than satisfying outing. Naming the View is a simple two-hander with a rather multifaceted premise. At the surface level, it concerns Kate and Horten, two estranged friends who happen to bump into each other whilst climbing Cleeve Hill.
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In another life Brian Clough might have been a court jester, telling truth to power, but the twinkle in his eye was not of the, ’Put that in your pipe and smoke it’, kind, rather, ‘I should be king rather than you’.
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★★★☆☆ This was a whirlwind sprint through two thousand years in about an hour and ten minutes. If you do come to see this show you will be educating your child or children through the school holidays without them realising. What can be wrong with that?
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