Fringe review: WALKING HOME, Prickly Pear Productions - Edinburgh Festival Fringe

It's just a regular day in the office when news that a colleague has been sexually assaulted reaches the boardroom. Emotions run high and accusations surface, but deadlines need to be met. Walking Home explores the politics and tensions that are rooted within the issue of sexual violence against women and people of marginalised genders.

This is a devised piece based on conversations that have taken place with individuals who have experienced these situations, collected from people of diverse genders, nationalities and walks of life.

It's a well written script that shares differing opinions of the situation and of each other, asking the audience for a show of hands to see if assumptions are being made, and that's exactly the point. Assumptions are always made and this is what we need to learn from. We assume someone is okay, we assume someone is at fault, we assume someone else will do something so we don't need to.

The piece is acted well and divided up so that we can see each individual's reaction and what has lead them to it. It carries its message in a subtle way whilst still managing to fire home the relevant points that it has to make.

Walking Home is a vital piece of theatre that needs to be seen by everyone in order to educate the community about their role in this conversation.

A crucial performance piece.

**** Four stars

Reviewed by: Rachel Louise Martin

Walking Home plays in the Wine Bar at Gilded Balloon Teviot at 5.30pm until 28 August.