Missing - Gecko, Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival.

Gecko make me feel very nostalgic. This might be a personal thing; a younger me saw their first show 'Taylor's Dummies' when bright eyed and idealistic, so seeing them gets me reminiscing, but I hazard a guess that I am not alone.  There is something about Gecko's shows that always stirs the memories. 'Missing' is a sepia tinted show.

The Collision of Things - Move to Stand, Pleasance, Edinburgh.

There's something hard to get your grip on with the word 'thing'. It's one of those vague words that you use when you don't have anything substantial to get hold of. The set up for 'The Collision of Things' was low key and simple, a man moves into a flat in London, they drink a lot (there is a little too much drunk acting, although there was one moment of highly enjoyable drunken dancing) and chat about life and things and then...