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Just Trust Me...

Description: Performance takes place in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 180 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS, Scotland.

Newest Review: ... playing roles thirty years their senior. Despite a couple of successful tongue-in-cheek pop culture references, this is primarily a historical play that explores the last lingering remnants of Victorian culture prior to the Great War. If the performance invites comparison to the audience's contemporary culture almost a century later, we arguably come out on top, as Laurence Bennett's ... more

... trusting, patriarchal attitude is exposed as unable to cope with the reforms threatened by those such as the Suffragette movement, enveloping ever more of his female family members, and the younger generation of merciless capitalists represented by his a...more

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Edinburgh Fringe 2008: Just Trust Me... (319 words)
by - written on 01/09/08 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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The Fat Toad Theatre Company's Edinburgh debut is a surprisingly authentic period play set in a formerly wealthy household facing the threat of bankruptcy over an eventful twenty-four hours in 1912. A morality play of sorts with a singular message, 'Just Trust Me' is performed by a sizeable cast of talented thespians of various ages who really look the part, avoiding the suspension of disbelief frequently required for student Fringe performers playing roles thirty years their senior. Despite a couple of successful tongue-in-cheek pop culture references, this is primarily a historical play that explores the last lingering remnants of Victorian culture prior to ... Read the complete review