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Darkfield Radio: Eternal – Summerhall, Old Lab

A very welcome lie down in a darkened room in the middle of a blazing hot day on a very busy Fringe Sunday. I’ll take it! And the bed ….is oh so relaxing …and the earphones are, well, just… just a minor issue.

I begin to drift off. But then!

The sound is extraordinary, and I swear I feel the bed move and feel the air shift over my face. Things are moving close to me. Someone, something is lying beside me. Yes, I have a bedfellow who is acting in a very peculiar way, and yet his voice has a certain reassuring quality and timbre, which is not altogether unpleasant. I just wish he would lie in one place for a minute!

To say any more would be to enter spoiler territory.

As a previous guest of Fringes past I can testify that Darkfield are moving on, flooding the zones, getting more liminal, I see a significant progression from the airless seated confines of shipping containers. It’s getting a lot more real and let’s just say …. a lot scarier.

Multiple times Daily – Till 25th August

https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/darkfield-radio-double-visitors-and-eternal

Reviewer: Greg Holstead

Reviewed: 3rd August 2025

North West End UK Rating:

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Running time – 25mins

Greg Holstead

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