Hollywood is, and always has been the height of decadence and big budgets, theatre on the other hand tends to be based on what we can do for the least amount of funding.  Crosswords Productions bring the two art forms together in a play about one man’s world amongst the stars of the silver screen.

Loosely based on 1920’s director and actor Erich von Stroheim Cut! Presents us with the egotistical Posterkrantz, a passionate and eccentric filmmaker in the golden age of cinema.  We follow him in the creation of epic masterpieces and all the guilty pleasures available to a somewhat neurotic man in such power.

Borkowy’s production sits very well within the neat little studio space in the Hill St Theatre, and the multimedia backdrop is striking but not obtrusive. Watt’s performance is well sustained, but the piece itself struggles to hold my prolonged interest even for the over-estimated hour long monologue. One feels Watt could do much better, as he has done in the past. It would have been nice to see more of the more stylised direction used at the end of the piece that brought the play to a neat finale. For something that sounded so interesting, there is some room for improvement.

4th-28th August (excluding Wed 16th)
Hill Street Theatre, Venue 41
19.05 (one hour)

Box Office: Hill Street 0131 226 6522 Fringe: 0131 226 0000
Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)