Edinburgh International Festival 2019 review: Roots
Captivating and macabre, 1927's new show marks a partial return to their own origins A fat cat who gobbles up everything in sight. A king who tests his wife's fidelity with increasingly horrific trials. A man whose flatmate is Poverty. It's hard to ignore the scathing contemporary resonances in theatre company 1927's sly, witty new Roots, getting its first European performances at the Edinburgh International Festival…