Edinburgh Fringe 2010: VIRTUALLY REAL

WORLD PREMIERE

VIRTUALLY_REAL      **

Assembly Rooms, (Wildman Room), Edinburgh

9th to 30th August 2010 @ 1.15pm, (no show 24th August), £8.00 - £10.00  TICKETS

Reviewed by Jacqueline Sharp

My head was spinning from this one from Roundhouse Theatre Company! There were too many characters, who all meet in cyberspace!

Sometimes a large cast does not focus enough on any one particular character.  The script was too confusing, jumping back and forth to past and present tense.

The more interesting scenes were theatrical, where the characters had one-to-one banter about combat stress, mourning a loved one, or a phantom hacker.  Those scenes were even comical at times.  Philip Osment, did well with those lines, which were what was best about Virtually-Real.

It would benefit more theatre and less silliness with cyber-druids and avatars! These ought to have stayed in  the background as physical dance only, with fewer lines  As it stood, it was too silly and confusing.

** two stars