Blog: The Panic Manual

First, if you're doing the Fringe this year, try to see something in the Annex Theatre. Monday was the first time I'd seen anything in this venue before, and it's just a really gorgeous space. Should the show you see at the Annex be Poison the Well ? That's a tough one. Poison the Well is about a fictional terrorist hostage-taking in Russia by Chechen rebels. For dramatic reasons that I'm not entirely sure that I buy, the Russians send a single lawyer from an oil company, which has interests in the region and employees [...]