Back to ledger
GBThe GuardianEdinburgh festival 2026

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

Open original article
Ledger record
#86
First seen
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
Last checked
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
Version history
1 version
Current fingerprint
a36d68990516...7f353d
01

Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
16 Aug 2026, 07:36 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Chris Wiegand
Section
Edinburgh festival 2026
Source-supplied excerpt
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
02

Change layer

Observed version timeline

  1. 1
    Initial capture

    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

    Changed fieldstitlebylinedescriptionTextcontentTextsourcePublishedAtsourceUpdatedAtsectionimageUrltags
    Version SHA-256
    a36d68990516...7f353d
    Capture SHA-256
    2bce3d4df01c...722802
03

Interpretation layer

Labels with declared origins

Not an adjudication.

Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Analysis or opinion observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Death or self-harm observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
  • machine language-signal Investigation language observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
  • publisher category Comedy rss-category
  • publisher category Communities rss-category
  • publisher category Culture rss-category
  • publisher category Edinburgh festival rss-category
  • publisher category Edinburgh festival 2026 rss-category
  • publisher category Housing rss-category
  • publisher category Stage rss-category
  • publisher category Theatre rss-category
04

Public response layer

Reception snapshots

No reviewed reception capture yet.

Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.

05

Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#1
Observed
17 Aug 2026, 21:26 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
460,621 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt