The Last Drop review – everything is rotten in this dark domestic comedy
Zoo Playground, Edinburgh Dante Passarelli’s play, part of the São Paulo Showcase, is an atmospheric hour borrowing themes from Hamlet This year’s fringe variously puts Hamlet in the Big Brother house with Lady Macbeth, makes him “ Prince of Sweden ” in an Italian two-hander and grinds the play into what Polonius might call a “tragical-comical” swipe at the meat industry. Dante Passarelli’s The Last Drop, part of the
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- Edinburgh festival 2026
Zoo Playground, Edinburgh Dante Passarelli’s play, part of the São Paulo Showcase, is an atmospheric hour borrowing themes from Hamlet This year’s fringe variously puts Hamlet in the Big Brother house with Lady Macbeth, makes him “ Prince of Sweden ” in an Italian two-hander and grinds the play into what Polonius might call a “tragical-comical” swipe at the meat industry. Dante Passarelli’s The Last Drop, part of the
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The Last Drop review – everything is rotten in this dark domestic comedy
Zoo Playground, Edinburgh Dante Passarelli’s play, part of the São Paulo Showcase, is an atmospheric hour borrowing themes from Hamlet This year’s fringe variously puts Hamlet in the Big Brother house with Lady Macbeth, makes him “ Prince of Sweden ” in an Italian two-hander and grinds the play into what Polonius might call a “tragical-comical” swipe at the meat industry. Dante Passarelli’s The Last Drop, part of the
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