Fringe review: BLUEPRINTS, Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Photo Credit: Alex Brenner

Are you destined to repeat ancestral patterns forever? If you could know the entire history of your bloodline, and everything you're passing on to your children, would you want to know? Adam and Faith do. Welcome to the Blueprints programme, where we can protect you from the past because, after all, knowledge is power. Right?

Written by Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo, Blueprints is about knowledge. Is it better to know something, if that changes who you are or who you become? It's a brilliantly written script. The language so natural you could be eavesdropping on a strangers conversation.

Directed by Jack McMahon and performed by Martin O'Whyte as Adam and Aisha Weise-Forbes as Faith, it has a very natural feel to the production. Both performers seem very comfortable with each other, having great rapport and an ease to react to each other very naturally, it's very satisfying to watch.

With design by Cara Evans, the set is minimal, but easily manoeuvered to alter the surroundings and transport us to different locations. Everything about the production makes it an easy watch for the audience. It's engaging, the focus is on the script and the story.    

 
Blueprints is a delightfully entertaining piece that gives us an idea of what knowing the future can do to us and how it could change everything.

Splendid writing and a superb performance.

***** Five stars

Reviewed by: Rachel Louise Martin

Blueprints plays in Beneath at Pleasance Courtyard at 11.50am until 28 August.