The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey review – time stands still at 3.43am in fringe fairytale

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:00:19 GMT

Summerhall, EdinburghAngele and Malcolm Galea’s two-hander cycles through grief and sorrow as a broken-hearted hero is trapped in purgatoryA fairytale plunges the reader into a dilemma then resolves it. But what if the happy ending never arrives? Will the tale just circle around into a netherworld, never finding a conclusion?That is the prospect in this two-hander by Malta’s Angele and Malcolm Galea, a couple whose experience of pregnancy loss finds expression in a thwarted fairytale – the kind of tale, perhaps, they might have read to their daughter. Continue reading...

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