A War of Two Halves
Theatre (site-specific, historical)
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Venue 547Tynecastle Park - Tynecastle Park
- 20:30
- Aug 26
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom - Scotland
- Group: This is My Story Productions
- Warnings and additional info: Involves Walking and Involves negotiating the various stands and access ways in the stadium.
- Babes in arms policy: Babies do not require a ticket
- Policy applies to: Children under 2 years
Description
2018 Fringe sell-out. 'Devastating emotion' ***** (AllEdinburghTheatre.com). 'Evocative and perfectly pitched' **** (Scotsman). 'I defy you not to have a lump in your throat at the end of the performance' **** (TheEdinburghReporter.co.uk). 1914. Edinburgh's Heart of Midlothian Football Club have won nineteen matches and are on the brink of winning the League Championship. In a show of extraordinary camaraderie and courage, thirteen players enlist to serve in McCrae’s Battalion. This is their story: an evocative, atmospheric and dramatic journey through Tynecastle Park Stadium in a unique, immersive, site-specific performance.Please note that while all media gallery content is provided by verified members of the event, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society does not review or approve this content before it is posted. Reports of inappropriate content or copyright infringement can be directed to [email protected].
General venue access
- Accessible entry: Information not supplied
- Stairs: Information not supplied
Wheelchair access type: Not fully wheelchair accessible
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Jenn 114 days ago
So glad I went to this! My interest in football is virtually nil, but this story of the Hearts team (riding high on success at the time) joining up as a "Pals Regiment" during WW1 was engrossing, exciting, moving & ultimately tragic.
Wonderfully staged around the Tynecastle stadium, ending in the moving memorial garden.
Rain came on during the scene in the trenches - somehow sitting on a hard step, getting wet was a very appropriate audience experience!
Excellent - do go!
Steve Meiklejohn 118 days ago
An amazing show. Saw it last year but found it even more moving ‘this year. A wonderfully well told story in the setting of beautiful Tynecastle. The writers said on Kickback this might be the last run of the show so don’t hesitate and get on down to see it, whoever you support even if that’s no one!
Mike Tivnen 124 days ago
Oh. My. God.
To think we nearly didn’t go because rain was expected and we’d been warned to wear weather-appropriate clothing as the peripatetic performance involved some walking outside*
This is one of the most moving, affecting plays I’ve seen in a while. Cleverly conceived, it shows us the progress of Heart of Midlothian’s 1914-15 season as World War I intervenes and press and public pressure is placed on the players to sign up. Each act takes place in a different part of the ground: We move from director’s box to changing rooms to concourse to improvised trenches in France, and finally, the garden of remembrance to the fallen that exists in the ground. And this points to the real triumph of the play, This is no money-spinning gimmick – it flows seamlessly from the respect that the club has for their history and that of the team that sacrificed so much for their country. The performances are flawless, the engagement you form with the characters they play is intense and … there will be tears in the end. Respect to the club.
* In the end the forecast was wrong, it was largely fair and sunny and anyway so little is in the open air it would have to be pretty squally to spoil the performance.
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Edinburgh Festivals Magazine 116 days ago
British Theatre.com 119 days ago
All Edinburgh Theatre 126 days ago
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