Love The Sinner – The Studio, Edinburgh
Approaching the end of a one month tour of Scotland’s finest smaller theatres, this gem of the spoken word is certainly getting to the well-polished stage. Expertly, co-produced with Vanishing Point, writer and performer Imogen Stirling simply oozes confidence and assuredness as she births every beautifully crafted line. The shame is that they whizz by at such a rate they barely have time to flower into fully formed life. Like snow on the river, white for a moment, then gone forever.
Through a series of flawed characters, representing the seven deadly sins, Stirling’s prose expertly coaxes and cajoles us through the drowned streets of the river city. It has rained for days. Our unlikely hero is Sloth, who reluctantly rises from her quilted fort of bedroom stagnation only when it gets to...