Showing @ Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh until Sun 25 Aug (not 7, 12, 19) @ 11:15
In a festival full of late night cabaret and burlesque as saucy as you dare, it is somewhat surprising to stumble onto what must be one of the sexiest shows this month at the rather anomalous time of 11:15am, tucked unassumingly in amongst Assembly‘s theatre offerings.
L.O.V.E. is perfomed with great enthusiasm by three talented performers and is inspired by (and mostly taken directly from) Shakespeare’s sonnets. It sounds highbrow and indeed the language may be a little difficult to follow if you are still nursing last night’s hangover, but this production in as coarse, earthy and impassioned as the bard himself could have wished. Tibu Fortes is the poet, Mairi Philllips the dark woman, and Joseph Reay-Reid the subject of their joint obsession. All three throw themselves into their characters with often violent physicality and intense emotion. More than twenty years from its connception, Volcano‘s L.O.V.E. has lost none of its youthful vigour or immediacy. Prepare to be seduced.
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