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Edinburgh Festival 2019: 10 top-rated theatre and dance shows returning to the Fringe this year
Want to know what theatre and dance to see at the Fringe this year?
Here are some returning shows that come strongly recommended by Scotsman critics.
- The Scotsman
Woke
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23 and 25 August, 4pm
What we said: “It’s perhaps not surprising that the Fringe features more young black voices than ever before, looking forward in anger, and back to the civil rights and black power struggles of the 1960s and 70s with a mixture of admiration and despair.
Apphia Campbell’s is perhaps the most powerful of all these voices, making itself heard through the stories of two very different women – the 1970s black power activist Assata Shakur and, in the present day, a…