Catherine Meek

Aug 23, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Catherine Meek

ED2024 Reviews ED2024 Theatre ReviewsOur host is chopping herbs, and onions sizzle before lights go down. Straight away she says we should be surprised: Iranian women don’t cook; “We work, we are successful”. It transpires she’s in England, cooking for imminent guests. She talks us through the recipe for Iranian Ash – a traditional noodle soup – as she explains her precarious flight from an abusive husband who had the power to cancel her passport. But it’s an underwhelming performance on the whole.

Aug 23, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Catherine Meek

ED2024 Art & Events Reviews ED2024 ReviewsArchitects may not begin with tabula rasa – ‘people-first’ cities and buildings necessarily incorporate remnants of the past. Edinburgh’s Futures Institute is case in point: the former Royal Infirmary holding memories of isolation is transformed from a private place to a public space siting EIBF.

Aug 19, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Catherine Meek

ED2024 Reviews ED2024 Theatre ReviewsCathrine Frost “made this show so that men could also understand what it means to be the part that carries the humans”. I’m certain I’m not the only woman present to be aghast at what I heard here first about pregnancy, miscarriage and giving birth. Frost tells all, in a matter of fact, if wry, no-holds-barred terms.

Aug 19, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Catherine Meek

ED2024 Reviews ED2024 Theatre Reviews“Give Me an Axe” emblazons the T-shirt and badge merch – a quirky tribute to Leah Shelton’s grandmother, incarcerated in a mental hospital in 1960s Australia for assaulting a TV. It’s an energetic and creative show which never loses focus and is spawned from careful research.

Aug 19, 2024 | threeweeksedinburgh.com | Catherine Meek

ED2024 Reviews ED2024 Theatre ReviewsThis show does not live up to its name. Our writer-character Ade guides us skillfully through ups and downs in the precarious work of getting her play put on, revealing an inspiring resilience as she brushes herself down after every fall this process throws up: everyday racism, family pressures and a ‘we know best’ editing team.