Come Back Home review – loss and love in Palestinian artist’s intriguing fringe hour

Summerhall, Edinburgh Fadi Murad’s unconventional drama is a collage structured with the free-form imagination of a poet Last year, a group of Scottish producers staged a four-day mini festival called Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine .

One of the excerpts was a scratch performance by Fadi Murad, which now returns as a full-length show.

It is not a conventional drama.

Rather, Come Back Home is structured with the free-ranging imagination of a poet, an impressionistic collage that resists straightforward interpretation.

Murad’s theme is one of loss and the pull of home, focusing in particular on the death of his mother in a car accident when he was nine.

He speaks touchingly from a child’s perspective of what it meant to lose the nurturer in his life, the one he turned to in just such a moment of distress.

And he shares video footage of his younger self singing Mad World by Tears for Fears at her memorial.

It is as cute as it is sad.

At Summerhall, Edinburgh , until 31 August All our Edinburgh festival reviews Continue reading...