Fuselage review – drama about the losses of Lockerbie sidelines the politics

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAnnie Lareau lost 35 of her fellow students on the downed Pan Am flight, but her focus on the personal in this three-hander leaves a gaping holeAt the start of her autobiographical three-hander, writer-performer Annie Lareau claims that news reports of atrocities focus on the wrong thing. She says they are always about nations and leaders and never about the people directly affected.Fuselage shows that there is a good reason for this: human interest stories (of which there are a lot) tend to tell you only that people get sad when sad things happen. Just like this play.At Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, until 25 AugustAll our Edinburgh festival reviews Continue reading...

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