Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Playing it straight

The Sun Also Rises<br /> Royal Lyceum The Cage<br /> Pleasance Borderline Racist <br /> The Canons’ Gait

issue 21 August 2010

The Sun Also Rises
Royal Lyceum

The Cage
Pleasance

Borderline Racist
The Canons’ Gait

The Edinburgh International Festival, respectable elder brother of the drop-out Fringe, takes its art very seriously indeed and expects the audience to do the same. It gives us the exotic, the challenging, the eclectic, the mesmeric.

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