We always try to catch a few hard-hitting serious plays when we come to Edinburgh, and I expect this will come under that category. Our next play comes from the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town and is The Inconvenience of Wings at One @ Assembly George Square Studios, at 15:10 on Tuesday 22nd. This is what the blurb says: “For anyone who has suffered mental illness themselves, or has lived with someone who is afflicted, this piece will cut close to the bone. Triple Fringe First winner Andrew Buckland stars in Lara Foot’s powerful and poignant drama about friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels. His wife, Sara, is diagnosed with bipolar disorder: she is compulsive, alive and hates women who know how to make cupcakes. Cape Times wrote, ‘it is a piece that no serious theatre lover should miss.’”

This could be a Kleenex show; if it works I doubt whether there’ll be a dry eye in the house. It’s had some great reviews from its performances last year in South Africa, so I’m ready to be impressed! Check back around 4.45 pm to see how moved we were. By then the next preview blog should be available to read too.

A very moving and thought provoking play that went back in time, from a devastating end to a hopeful beginning; superbly showing how mental illness – specifically bipolar – is a torture from which there are few ways out. Bravely and beautifully performed throughout.