Praise for Salt Author Ryan Van Winkle’s Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel
Ryan Van Winkle, author of Tomorrow We Will Live Here, enjoyed considerable critical success during this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with his one-to-one poetry experiment Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel. Here’s a sample of some of the kind things said from various critical corners. The show will be at the Battersea Arts Centre, London, from 12-22 December. More details soon.
TheList: ***** “It’s charming, it’s inspirational and, in fact, I suspect it might be a landmark production for poetry in performance. I was cocooned in an intimate human bubble. If you are at all interested in literature, memory, performance or joy, you must see this show.” – Charlotte Runcie
Herald Scotland: ***** “A brief oasis of calm, where being read to is a welcome pleasure not often enjoyed beyond childhood.” — Mary Brennan
FringeGuru: ***** “All things considered, the show is superlative. That intimacy is the real magic – I felt, actually, like I was holed up in a friend’s room listening to a poem I’d heard before, about things I’d also experienced.” — Allison Mckeon
Guardian Theatre Correspondent Lyn Gardner: “Should be made available immediately on prescription to all fringe-goers”; Via Twitter: “exquisite 20 minute time out ”
Exeunt Magazine: “[By the end, the room] had become more beautiful and strange than I had expected, set against the ebb and flow of Van Winkle’s elemental poetry.” — Tom Wicker
Time Out: **** “Simple, yearning and effective” — Andrzej Lukowski
Edinburgh Spotlight: **** “There has been a lot of site-specific and installation work this Fringe, but this is easily one of the best …. A piece that has real depth and substance and is willing to take all the risks that go with creating a one to one piece.”
Scottish Poetry Library: ‘This is a high-def performance, 3d poetry” — Colin Waters
