This week the panel discussed:
Playing the Victim
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It's one of the best ensemble pieces I've seen for a long time.
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A young man drops out of University and goes to the Police. He's done nothing wrong, he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat his own.
Following the success of 'A Little Fantasy', Told by an Idiot celebrates its 10th anniversary with its first co-production with the Royal Court. From the Russian Presnyakov Brothers, writers of the acclaimed 'Terrorism', comes an unsettling new work, where philosophy collides with farce.
The theatrical and anarchic spirit of Told by an Idiot is fused with the Royal Court. Hayley Carmichael and Paul Hunter, co-founders of Told by an Idiot, lead the cast with direction by actor/director Richard Wilson.
Playing the Victim is at Traverse 2 Until 23 August.
Ladies and Gents
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One of the joys of the festival is you will see something weird.
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Dublin-based company Semper Fi play out a tale of blackmail and murder in an unusual venue - an Edinburgh public toilet.
The merest of scratches and the underbelly begins to ooze....fumblings in alleyways...secret rendezvous...perverse pleasures in the oddest of places...Not for the faint hearted.
Winner of the Sexiest Show of the Dublin Fringe 2002 and was nominated for two Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards.
Ladies & Gents is at Fringe venue 290, the Public Toilets, St James Place.
Politics
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This is a clever-Dick novel, the pun is intentional.
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Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978 and grew up in North London. Earlier this year, he was placed on Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists under forty. He is assistant editor of Arete and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Politics is his first novel.
Politics tells the story of a father and daughter. It also tells the story of a ménage a trois.
Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage a trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you? Is it permissibly to be jealous?
Politics is a comedy about kindness.
Politics is not about politics.
Politics by Adam Thirlwell is published by Cape on 28 August.
Capturing the Friedmans
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I found it a very disturbing experience
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Our pick of a very strong year for documentary at the Film Festival.
The Friedmans are a nice, middle-class Long Island family, seemingly addicted to recording their daily lives - first on super-8, then on video. But their world crumbles when the father, a respected teacher is accused, along with the youngest of his three sons of molesting school children.
Unbelievingly, the arrest, trial and its horrifying aftermath are all chronicled in the family's own home movies.
Directed by Andrew Jarecki and due to be released early next year.
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