Ordinary Decent Criminal

The great touring company Paines Plough hasn’t been able to bring its iconic Roundabout venue to Summerhall this summer – for reasons you can google – but it’s still up at the Fringe with two shows, this one even at Summerhall. Comic Mark Thomas scored great notices a few years back for his rivetingly intense acting debut in Ed Edwards’s England and Son. Now actor and playwright are reunited for Ordinary Decent Criminal, a story about a recovering addict prisoner who becomes part or a liberal rehabilitaton experiment in the years after the Strangeways riots. Paines Plough co-boss Charlotte Bennett directs.