Reviews

If you have been in and out of the Middar Room as part of your FringeWorld travels, entering for Peculiar Plants and the Ants Who Dance, feels quite different. Handed a flower to hold, you will find that the front few rows of chairs have disappeared and been replaced with comfy cushions, and the low stage is set with a reasonably complex set.

Presented by The Almost Collective and State of Play, All The Times I Could Have, is a beautifully crafted one act play that is superbly produced and directed and intelligently and skilfully acted.

Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.

Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in the window seat of his elderly aunts’ boarding house. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that they are not just aware of the dead man in their parlour; they were the ones who killed him!!

Many will fondly remember the novel Daddy Long Legs written by Jean Webster in 1912. The story of a young orphan, Jerusha (Judy) Abbot, who impresses one of the wealthy trustees of the John Grier Orphanage. He pays her tuition and a monthly allowance to attend college and become a writer. She sees him briefly at the orphanage as an elongated shadowy silhouette and dubs him Daddy Long Legs. His only requirement is that she must write to him and tell of her learning and her experiences.