Theatre / 70 min / £10(£9), £9(£8) / 14+
Showing @ Pleasance Dome, until 27 Aug @ 13.20
When it comes to Fringe theatre, the rom-com genre has rarely found true innovation. But there is something charmingly honest about Richard Marsh’s and Katie Bonna’s Dirty Great Love Story that sees the audience throwing themselves behind the hapless singletons and willing them together. Combining poetry and drama, for a rom-com with rhyme, Bonna and Marsh not only show fine acting ability but establish themselves as credible writers, armed with a gag-heavy and witty script. With nothing but a blank backdrop for support, the pair tease out their awkward story over months and years, proving how life and time have odd ways of bringing people together. The mastery of this piece isn’t embedded in its complex rhythms and rhymes, but instead in the enigmatic ordinariness of falling in love.