Gagarin Way Edinburgh Festival 2015

Review for Gagarin Way (2015) dir. Steph Smart

theSpace on the Mile (Venue 39): Sun 9 – Sat 29 Aug 2015

There is real promise – and much that is already very good – in New Celts and Mindframe’s Gagarin Way at theSpace on the Mile.

Gregory Burke’s 2001 hit is about a kidnap at a Fife factory, intended as a political statement, that does not go as planned. It remains a tightly constructed, darkly humorous and thought-provoking work, that is certainly done justice here.