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Love is in the air! The four bittersweet theatre romances we recommend at the Edinburgh Fringe, writes PATRICK MARMION
PATRICK MARNIHAM: Few are more famous than Edmond Rostand's tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, the 17th-century French wit, writer and swordsman inhibited in love by the length of his nose.
From the start, this virtuosic violinist (Raphael Papo), moving as slinkily as he plays, is the presiding spirit of the piece and the place, a community of refugees in a shtetl that is now part of Ukraine, held together by the strength of their culture and traditions, particularly their music. From the start, this virtuosic violinist Raphael Papo (pictured), moving as slinkily as he plays, is the presiding spirit of the piece and the place, a community of refugees in a shtetl that is now part of Ukraine, held together by the strength of their culture and traditions, particularly their music The scene is a rundown working men's club in Rotherham, where gravel-voiced MC Frankie performs old-fashioned variety – gags, songs, puppetry, magic and audience participation – exceedingly badly (a delightful turn by Kent-Walters, face inexplicably covered in Sudocrem).
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