Keep Watching It – theSpace on The Mile
The new, independent company Kestrel Eye Productions brings their psycho-thriller to Edinburgh. With the scene set (it being close to eleven o’clock at night) I creeped my way into the black box theatre.
The concept of the play was intriguing – a shunned celebrity scientist presents her latest experiment which she hopes will bring about her acceptance back into society. The experiment being the control of human emotions by taking Matrix-like red and blue pills - the scientist making a human-like, winged creature to test these pills. While in theory this piece could have made some very current and relevant observations and commentaries, it unfortunately missed the mark. It did do as it intended to – we saw the effects the pills had on the creature, but with a ...