Must SEE: ARE THERE MORE OF YOU - Edinburgh

Alison Skilbeck shows how-it’s-done in her production of Are There More of You, playing through the 23rd of August at 8:30pm in the Quaker Meeting House.

“If Beckett gives a lesson to be learnt, it’s trying pays, although you may be burnt…”
—John Calder, Solo, ‘Battlefield Address to the Godot Company‘

At a gathering of friends last night, John Calder recommended Skilbeck’s show and was subsequently asked: “Is it good, or very good”, to which he replied the latter and I made my decision to attend. What I found was nothing short of brilliant and refreshing.

Skilbeck’s script is pithy and hysterically woven with some of the very essences of the contemporary human condition. Her performance is intelligent, subtly resilient and is a testament to the fine art of theatre, as well as the lost art and craft of literary storytelling. Skilbeck’s wit is as sharp as the dark side of a razor, and had me laughing out loud, American style.

My companion commented that he’d “just seen his mother”  in one character, and I’m still reeling from another who could switch back and forth into an Italian accent better than most of my fellow New Yorkers.  If you’ve ever done any serious personal reflection, see this show…Skilbeck might show you what’s been lurking deep down inside.

—Martin Belk