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The End of Eddy, Edinburgh International Festival 2022 review - powerful but lacking compassion

by David Kettle

An energetic, lithe gig-theatre adaptation of Édouard Louis's 2014 trauma memoir can't escape the book's limitations Those working-class people really are appalling, aren't they? Racist, sexist, definitely homophobic, violent too. Thank god our young hero can escape their clutches into the safety of a nice, bourgeois acting academy where he can be his true self.

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 3:42am on August 23, 2022