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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyn Gardner

The Edinburgh Love Tour

This is such a good idea I want to buy it and do it myself, because I know I could do it a lot better.

The premise is simple: Rosemary and Steven have been married for seven years and make their living by taking gullible tourists on a tour of Edinburgh, pointing out the love hotspots, such as the place where Robbie Burns fell in love with his Clarinda. But Rosemary and Steven's marriage is as shaky as their history and, as we follow them around the streets of Edinburgh, it soon becomes clear that love is on the rocks.

The trouble is that the show loses focus because of its promenade nature and you never care sufficiently about the protagonists to be really concerned whether they are heading for the divorce courts or not. There is nothing the matter with the show that a much sharper script and better performances wouldn't solve but, as they are pretty fundamental, the show is probably better skipped until they are.

· Until Aug 29. Box office: 0131 556 6550

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