Theatre<\/p>\n
Next Stop Romance as Edinburgh imports cut straight to the heart<\/p>\n
Love Letters to the Public Transport System
\nby Molly Taylor
\nFebruary 14.
\nHolden Street Theatres until March 1.<\/p>\n
Borders
\nby Henry Naylor
\nGilded Balloon and Redbeard Theatre
\nFebruary 14.
\nHolden Street Theatres until March 18.<\/p>\n
Fallot
\nCompany 2
\nFebruary 17.
\nEmpire Theatre, Royal Croquet Club
\nUntil February 25.<\/p>\n
Bookings : adelaidefringe.com.au or phone 1300 621 255.
\nDuration: each show 60 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Adelaide Fringe has switched on. With the opening night Parade of Light<\/em>, a series of installations illuminating North Terrace for the duration of the festival, the program of more than 1200 events has begun. The largest arts event in the Southern Hemisphere, and second only to Edinburgh, the Adelaide Fringe is an un-curated colossus which transforms the city.<\/p>\n The theatre program alone lists some 130 events and, again this year, Holden Street Theatres, are among the first out of the blocks with a selection of critical successes direct from Edinburgh.<\/p>\n Many commuters might think Love Letters to the Public Transport System <\/em>is a cruel oxymoron. But Molly Taylor\u2019s monologue, an artful panegyric to tubes and trains and buses, is a disarmingly tender account of a private life acted out in public space. It is about love gone bung, and love \u2013 in a chance meeting at the White Horse pub \u2013 reawakened.<\/p>\n The course of events never does run smooth but that doesn\u2019t stop Taylor wanting to write and thank the drivers at Virgin Rail and London Transport, especially Barry Henshaw, for connecting her, Tam, Margaret and other travelling souls in the Greater London area, with the chances, coincidences, destinies and destinations that make up all our serendipitous lives. Love Letters <\/em>is a wryly-pitched reminder that the transports of the heart can surprise us, especially when they don\u2019t run to schedule.<\/p>\n Borders<\/em> is the fourth play in UK writer Henry Naylor\u2019s outstanding Arabian Nightmares<\/em> series. Echoes<\/em> and Angel<\/em> have already performed at Holden Street in recent Fringes and this newest work deserves the acclaim it brings with it from the Edinburgh season.<\/p>\n Crisply directed by Michael Cabot and Louise Skaaning, Borders <\/em>charts the progress of Sebastian (Graham O\u2019Mara) an ambitious photojournalist who, after gaining accidental fame meeting and photographing Osama Bin Laden, abandons news for lucrative celebrity portraiture. It also presents the utterly different life of an unnamed young Syrian woman (the excellent Avital Lvova) besieged in Homs and taking revenge on her father\u2019s death by defacing images of the Assad regime with graffiti.<\/p>\n Naylor\u2019s alternating monologues are exhilarating in their pace and vivid detail. The description of the eventual crossing of paths – as Sebastian documents the perils of the nameless young artist\u2019s refugee boat in the Mediterranean – is both timely and thrillingly dramatised.<\/p>\n Unless you are a cardiologist you may not know that Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect. Circus performer Marianna Joslin was diagnosed at the age of six and has had two major surgeries with a third still to come. Fallot<\/em> is her story, told partly by Joslin as factual narrative but mostly using circus routines and gymnastics featuring Olivia Porter, Phoebe Armstrong, Jake Silvester and Casey Douglas.<\/p>\n There is a pulsing soundtrack, Porter shimmies up a scarlet drape into a wire frame shaped like an anatomical heart. The trauma of surgery and then the fragility of recovery is expressed with pathos and verve. Fallot<\/em> is not yet fully dramatically resolved but is an intriguing idea bravely ventured \u2013 in true Fringe fashion.<\/p>\n Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n \u201cNext stop romance as Edinburgh imports cut straight to the heart\u201d, The Australian<\/em>, February 20, 2018, p.11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theatre Next Stop Romance as Edinburgh imports cut straight to the heart Love Letters to the Public Transport System by Molly Taylor February 14. Holden Street Theatres until March 1. Borders by Henry Naylor Gilded Balloon and Redbeard Theatre February 14. Holden Street Theatres until March 18. Fallot Company 2 February 17. Empire Theatre, Royal Croquet Club Until February 25. Bookings : adelaidefringe.com.au or phone 1300 621 255. Duration: each show 60 minutes. The Adelaide Fringe has switched on. 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