Blood & Roses
There’s a lot going on here: multiple stories from different times and places, all told through headphones in different locations around Edinburgh’s West End. Yet it all blends beautifully into a moving tale of love across continents and ages.
It would be wrong to give away too much about the locations visited, but they are unexpected, and involve fragile, homespun installations by artist Jen Robson that shed new light on the tales you are hearing. It all adds up to a vivid, atmospheric experience that’s at once tender and possessed of a flinty strength.
While some of the locations chime perfectly with the audio drama, in others it’s not immediately clear why we’re there. But that doesn’t detract from the magic that the work weaves.
– David Kettle