As the audience gathers for this return visit to the Edinburgh Playhouse on the evening of Friday 27th September, the stage is comfortably familiar, comfortable chair with a
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Originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009, the inaugural show of the theatre company which bears the same name returned in 2013 on a wave of renewed
