After a late night cabaret show and having seen 13 shows in two days, waking up early to trundle to the Gilded Balloon Study in the Pleasance Dome was not top on my list of things to do… However, within three minutes of watching Buckle Up Theatre’s production of ‘Bump’, my Edinburgh Brain was excitedly buzzing with creativity again. Written and performed by Andrew Hollingworth (Ian) alongside actress Orianna Charles (Eliana), the pair take us on a beautiful, amusing and sweet tale of fate mixed with a little awkwardness.

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Buckle Up is the brainchild of Mountview graduates Tim Gutteridge & Andrew Hollingworth, and allows the audience to climb aboard the last airliner you’d ever wish to fly with – the aptly named ‘Budge-It Air’. As the audience have their tickets checked on entering SpaceTriplex on Hill Place, we are wished a safe flight and handed a comical safety booklet (which cleverly doubles up as a programme) to get us instantly connected with this fascinating idea for a piece of theatre.

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