Almost Everything – Alba Theatre
The number of people attending a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe is in no way indicative of the quality of the show—after all, there were only 13 people at The Last Supper. There were fewer than 25 in the audience watching ‘Almost Anything’, a modern love triangle. Despite excellent performances from the young cast, the show felt like it tried too hard to be an amalgamation of every young love story written in the last decade.
There was no information available on the writer of this new piece, featuring Becca (Lauren Barrie) and Charlie (Ben McGuinness) as students sharing a flat in modern-day London and the complications that follow the arrival of Becca’s sister Emily (Imogen Eden-Brown) to their nascent romance. I would hazard that this piece was written by someone under the a...