If I told you I loved this city;
love the way it opens it ways and lanes to me,
love the way it takes and absorbs me without making a fuss;
love the way it winds my walking to its contours,
gives resistance to my dreaming -
would you be jealous?
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A love song to your city. With an ipod and mobile phone, discover the choreography of Edinburgh as streetscapes become the set and passers-by performers.
Winner of the 2010 Adelaide Fringe Award for best production and two of Melbourne’s Green Room Awards, en route combines a crafted narrative and pulsating soundtrack, created for the city it inhabits. It’s a unique theatrical experience which transforms you into a traveller, voyeur and witness to the city’s secrets and found experiences. Be touched by your city as if for the first time.
Meet at the Traverse Theare Box Office. This is an outdoor performance. Audiences are advised to dress for walking and weather.
An enjoyably quirky adventure and one you'll not forget
A wonderfully atmosphereic sojourn that gently but firmly forces you to confront and break through your own emotional shield.
This audio theatre leaves you shaken, and a little changed.
What it does is force the participant to slow down, reflecton their surroundings, and their relationship to it.
The spoken texts...tend towards the sophomoric.
They should have taken us to Leith, or at least to Holyrood Palace and Calton Hill.
I'm not quite sure how it counts as theatre but it's enormously good fun.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday August 4, 2010, until Sunday August 29, 2010. This begins at the Traverse but involves walking around the city. Dress appropriately. Check Traverse website for prices and times.. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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