Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mum has just died while in the charge of local GP Harold Shipman. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”? Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice,… Continue reading Let the Bodies Pile review – awkward effort to hold government to account over Covid | Edinburgh festival 2023
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Blood of the Lamb review – acutely tense drama of reproductive rights | Edinburgh festival 2023
The tension builds from the minute a nervous, slightly dazed woman is led into a dingy airport antechamber by a lawyer who is avoiding eye contact. It tightens, in Arlene Hutton’s taut two-hander, as the US state lawyer, Val (Elisabeth Nunziato), first distracted, then bristling, treats Nessa (Dana Brooke), more like a criminal than someone… Continue reading Blood of the Lamb review – acutely tense drama of reproductive rights | Edinburgh festival 2023