IRIS BRUNETTE To 21 November.

Tour

IRIS BRUNETTE
by Melanie Wilson.

Tour to 21 November 2009.
Runs 1hr Nno interval.
Review: Mark Courtice 24 August at Medical School Seminar Room, Edinburgh Fringe.

Enjoyable, intriguing story, in safe hands.
The last time I was picked on at a performance was at a country circus by a very large clown who made me dance – embarrassing for me, fun for everyone else.

The contrast could not have been greater at Iris Brunette, an intriguing thriller in a dark space in the corner of Edinburgh's Medical School, where members of the audience make choices which let the watchers’ imaginations into ever more complex visions of a world falling apart.

Performer Melanie Wilson is elegant and mysterious. She is in control, but charms us into feeling we are in safe hands as we go on this alarming journey through a post-apocalypse world.

An intimate affair for an audience of twenty sitting in a circle. Everyone is given a role and a name. As we wait in the pitch dark for the transformation, lights twinkle like constellations turned on their sides, spotlights pick out tables, and Iris Brunette appears and disappears without warning. An eerie soundscape underscores a remarkably complete story of love and loss.

Its turns out most of us will have to join in at some stage, but unlike at the circus it’s fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable for everybody - even the picked-on.

Performer: Melanie Wilson.

Designer Peter Arnold.
Lighting Ben Pacey.
Sound: Melanie Wilson.

2009-09-02 00:45:03