A Cinema in South Georgia - Edinburgh Fringe 2015
Written by : Susan Wilson & Jeffrey Mayhew - Director: Jeffrey Mayhew
They employ a broad range of theatrical tools, including songs, dance and sketches based on This Is Your Life and Desert Island Discs and the show is packed with well-researched information. The four actors infuse it with energy, cheerfulness and good-humour. ★ ★ ★ ★
"A must see tale... A tricky and unique subject to bring to the stage but it is a braw show from the Braw Buoys." ★ ★ ★ ★
The Braw Buoys have brought the sort of bittersweet play to the Fringe that leaves you uplifted, enlightened and really feeling an emotional attachment to a time and place all but lost to us. ★ ★ ★ ★
A Cinema in South Georgia is a fantastic piece of working class social history in a little discussed area.. If a more mature Horrible Histories took on the seven seas, this would be the result. ★ ★ ★ ★
A Cinema In South Georgia is exquisite, and executed in such a manner that it was deeply respectful to the memory of all those this experience was based on. One of the most refreshing and enjoyable productions at the Fringe – you will only regret not going to see it. ★ ★ ★ ★
Based on real-life accounts of that salty old life, & laced with thought-provoking moments concerning the slaughtering of our oceans’ whales, we are transported to Christmas 1959-60... Throughout the play we hear catchy monologues, second-bucket sea-shanties & music-hall songs, & one is left feeling with an inimitable warm glow by the end ★ ★ ★ ★
"A standing ovation was the perfect curtain call for the first performance of ‘A Cinema in South Georgia’... One not to be missed."