Edinburgh festival student roundup: Moonlight / Hiawatha / Blessed Be My Bedpan

Edinburgh festival student roundup: Age cannot hinder them Moonlight C Soco Hiawatha Pleasance One Blessed Be My Bedpan The Space @Jury's Inn There are some things young student actors will always find difficult. One of them is playing the elderly - particularly in a studio theatre setting where the audience can see every painted wrinkle and dyed grey hair. For a twentysomething to be convincing as an aging civil servant or an 80-year-old hospice-bound woman, it takes phenomenal suspension of belief on the audience's behalf. Or exceptional talent. In Liverpool University Drama Society's production of Pinter's tragic-comedy, Moonlight, you will find the latter. Laura Astin is particularly impressive as Bel, the aging wife who oscillates between a weary compassion for her dying husband and a languid regret for opportunities... [read full story]