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Edfringe Review: Showtime!

Latharna Imlah by Latharna Imlah
August 20, 2024
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Pink eyebrows, top hat, a magic wand which breaks as it’s dropped five minutes in- this is the uniform of the professional star. Amelia is that star for us, a manic pixie songstress ready to shove Hollywood-style all-singing-all dancing showbizzness down our throats.

I say our, I was one of only three audience members. It’s never nice to feel like your presence is a slap in the face for an entertainer who’s put their life on hold to come up and commit to the Fringe for a month. It’s especially not nice to then have to sit centre stage front row to make the other absent bums less noticeable, and then be squirted with a penis shaped water gun right in my face. This is why I’m a middle-back kind of girl- somewhere nice and cozy and safe from all liquid projectiles.

Showtime! is wild and intense. It’s a bit of a schizophrenic performance of the young, vulnerable English girl Amelia, and her ruthless glittering alter ego, ‘The Master’. It’s loud, dark, chock-full of musical numbers and costume changes. It also features a fully nude re-enaction of sexual violence which I do not think was at all properly signposted in the show’s information section online. If anyone considering attending is sensitive to that subject, I would suggest giving it a miss for this reason.

I hope more people do attend the remaining shows though, such a spectacle demands a more enthusiastic audience than we three could muster. If someone’s willing to strip naked, and also admit to dating a broke OAP as a 19-year-old, someone should be there to applaud their bravery and to catch the wand fragments as they fall.

Showtime!, C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 19:45, until August 25.

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/showtime

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Latharna Imlah

Latharna Imlah

Latharna is an MA Journalism student at Napier University. This will be her second year reviewing Fringe shows, after loving it last year. She's hoping to give even more 5 star reviews this time around!

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