pakdoktergolfblog: The Edinburgh Festival (V1): One-(wo)man plays, stand-up comedies, rock concert, dance and musicals.....

During the week that pakdokter was in Edinburgh, pakdokter managed to see about 10 shows or so and this was quite an achievement considering that there were so many things to do and see during this Festival.

"The Tempest' was the first play pakdokter saw at the Edinburgh College of Art. It was somewhat not up to the mark (by pakdokter's evaluation) or perhaps Shakespeare is not simply pakdokter's stuff....

The Edinburgh College of Art also put up an exhibition of 'rock' art and carvings on their courtyard and some of the artists were at work with their art pieces during the festival.

'Janis' - a one-woman play performed by an actor from Brighton, Nicky, who potrayed the life of Janis Joplin, the famous rock singer of the hippie days. We bumped into 'Janis a.k.a. Nicky' the next day in the Edinburgh University Library while having a drink and waiting to go to the next show. She was surprised that at our age ( "we did not look like we belong to that period", she said) we were interested in and knew about Janis Joplin.....

"The Dentist" was a powerful one-woman drama about the relationship of a physician with her elderly father from Salonika, Greece, who was a victim of the Nazi persecution of the Jews but survived his time at the Auschwitz. In the play she regularly switched roles between being herself as a child, being her grumpy and irritable father as well as some other characters who were of significance to her life. Only towards the last moment of his life did she finally understood the 'moodiness' of her father who had to live and endure the unpleasant memories of being the 'dentist' - the person in charge of extracting gold teeth from victims who were burnt and killed in the camp.

This Aussie lass was funny...