Theatre: If You're Feeling Sinister: A Play With Songs, Gilded Balloon - Patter Hoose, Edinburgh
If You're Feeling Sinister: A Play With Songs, Gilded Balloon - Patter Hoose, Edinburgh * * *
If You’re Feeling Sinister sketches out a May to December relationship between Boss and Kid who come together and pull apart around the theft of an iconic painting, while Belle & Sebastian’s music appears as incidental instrumentals, or sung over backing tracks which are no substitute for the energy of gig theatre.
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Hide AdInstead, there is more pace in the to and fro of the dialogue or when performers Sarah Swire and Alan McHugh accompany themselves on acoustic guitar, when the gloriously melodic likes of Seeing Other People and Like Dylan in the Movies – a song originally about being chased through Kelvingrove Park, repurposed as the hatching of an escape plan – emerge as far smarter than your average musical theatre number.
Until 26 August