TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

A SHARP FRINGE

From the wickedly funny ‘Crododile Fever’ to the poetic staccato of

‘Enough’, Holly Williams gives her round-up of the opening weekend

at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre

Lisa Dwyer Hogg in Meghan Tyler’s heightened, pitch-black comedy (Lara Cappelli)

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran ★★★★☆ / Crocodile Fever ★★★★☆ / Enough ★★★★☆

The Traverse’s curated programme is always a cornerstone of the Edinburgh Fringe, although it doesn’t
always offer the most exciting work. But the opening weekend there brought some thrills, if no out-and-out
smash hit.

Rich Kids: A History of Malls in Tehran contains a metaphor for its own structure: Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty
Housley’s play discusses how human history is buried in geological layers in the earth. Their show, although
only an hour-long, is itself densely packed with layers of narrative and meaning, uncovered by Alipoor and
fellow performer Peyvand Sadeghian.

On the surface, it tells the true story of Hossein Rabbani-Shirazi and Parivash Akbarzadeh – two rich kids of

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