Edinburgh Review: Dirty Decadence, C nova
The boys are in black tie, the girls in diaphanous dresses. They chuck back whisky with alcoholic aplomb as they dance their way through a balletic take on the ...
Tim Bano
Edinburgh Review: We Have Fallen, Underbelly Cowgate
Spitting shards of lines and disjointed speech, three performers explain their individual journeys against the backdrop of an inexplicable catastrophe: one day,...
Edinburgh Review: Claustrophobia, ZOO
On the black stage a small white square is marked out. Then the opening line, “which floor?” and instantly the play is ominous, foreboding. A man and a woman ar...
Edinburgh Review: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote Of La Mancha, ZOO
Like Cervantes’s sprawling book, this Don Quixote crosses many styles. It begins with a five minute scene, then a feedback – or rather ‘feedforward’ – session w...
Edinburgh Review: Mush and Me, Underbelly Cowgate
A Jew and a Muslim walk into a bar. At least, they do in scene two. In the first scene they are in an office, two ruthless members of a sales team flogging soft...
Edinburgh Review: Beans On Toast, Zoo Southside
Memory is not linear and it is not reliable. Memory is slippery, fragmented, mischievous. And the further away we move from the moment something happened, the l...
Tim Bano
After studying Classics at university, which gave Tim a brilliant insight into the origins of drama as we know it, he has been spending his time writing about arts and culture. He particularly loves writing about theatre, and seeing the wide range of productions and talent that the country has to offer.