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Gone Full Havisham
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Dramatic intensity A young Miss Havisham: orphan, cultured, about to get married… Emily’s normal life is suspended; she disappears, and her story becomes the one she tells through social media. She talks to her followers still keeping on her
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The Perfect Body
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 20th August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Smart, catching, ironic Food, food, food! Food is the key. Everybody wants to have a perfect body, isn’t it? The protagonist of this one-woman show certainly does… no junk food, no coke and such drinks, the basis. (Spoiler alert:
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Seeking Unicorns
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 15th August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi – Alternative communication At the corner of the stage lays a woman. A white-dressed creature, she is crouched in a prone position. Her first movements are slow and shy, only later does she reveal more of herself. Gradually we start reading the
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The Trial @EdFringe 2019
Seen at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the 13th August 2019 Review by Federica Balbi Outstanding A one-woman show of incredible power and beauty. A letter arrives to Agreste, a rural Brazilian village, and it is signed Tieta. Not everybody wants to remember her – she has left Brazil as Antonio many years ago.
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Medea per Strada
Seen in the 22nd June 2019 at the ʻFestival delle Colline Torinesiʼ Medea per Strada is a play that brings us – literally – where action takes place. We get in a small van and Medea (Elena Cotugno) is the chatty passenger who starts telling her story, the one of many migrant girls who get
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