Saturday's crop.

I'm With The Band - Traverse. Not bad.  A band called The Union made up of a Scotsman, a Welshman, an Ulsterman and an Englishman.  The Scots guitarist wants to leave the band.  You get the point I'm sure.  It's a neatly worked analogy but dragged out for an hour and a half it lost its charm for me.

Ciara - Traverse. Very good.  A one woman show, beautifully written, beautifully staged and lit, beautifully performed.  The life and times of a Glasgow criminal's daughter, criminally married but legitimately running an art gallery.

Survival of the Fittest - Sweet at Apex Grassmarket. Fair.  Six dancers throw themselves around energetically in two pieces. Nature versus nurture, problemette being I couldn't tell which was which, then a more straightforward narrative in which a gazelle is attacked by two lions and a buffalo (your guess is as good as mine as to which was what), is rescued and the rescuer perishes. A bit tame and lacked any sense of terror, relief, sadness.

Cadre - Traverse.  Having fought for freedom where are the fruits?  I expected the play to deal with events post Mandela but it was all flashback to the bad old apartheid days unless I closed my eyes for longer than I thought.  Disappointing.

The Events - Traverse.  Mmm?  There's been a shooting - of members of a choir.  The choirmistress survived.  The play deals with how she deals with it in an imaginative set of dialogues between her and various people including a psychiatrist, her partner, a friend of the shooter and ultimately the shooter himself.  Interspersed is the singing of a choir and a complex tapestry of words, music and emotions is created. Alas I wasn't engaged.