{"id":347406,"date":"2025-08-15T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347406\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:31:18","slug":"edinburgh-fringe-review-ta-bamm-at-hill-street-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347406\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Fringe Review: Ta-Bamm!!! at Hill Street Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1167 lazyload\" title=\"Five Star Review from Theatre Weekly\" alt=\"Five Star Review from Theatre Weekly\" width=\"350\" height=\"71\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/New-5star-350x71.png\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"350\" data-eio-rheight=\"71\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edfringe.com\/tickets\/whats-on\/ta-bamm-tap-dance-and-marimba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ta Bamm!<\/a>\u00a0(Alba Theatre at Braw Venues @ Hill Street) is one of the most unusual, unexpected and wonderful shows I\u2019ve come across in ages. Who knew that a marimba player and a tap dancer could spellbind an audience for an hour, without speaking a word? Wooden Impact \u2013 Daniel Borak (Tap Dance) and Manuel Leuenberger (Marimba) \u2013 do just this. They are virtuosos in their separate crafts and very evidently just love what they do and working together. They are a joy to watch. They are fun \u2013 incorporating clowning, mime and circus skills into their show \u2013 energetic and just a little bit crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel can make tap dancing look like figure skating. Manuel can play an empty biscuit tin or a packing case just as well as he can play the marimba he evidently adores. I spoke to them when they were promoting their show at the end of Princes Street last week and their enthusiasm and genuine delight that I already had a ticket for their show was infectious. I wasn\u2019t really sure what the show would be like and words really can\u2019t do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>Ta Bamm!\u00a0is pure joy on a stick! Or at least on a set of mallets (the technical term for the \u2018sticks\u2019 used to play a marimba!). The range of music that Manuel plays is incredible and the improvisations the pair do individually and together are stunning. One or two pieces are played without the marimba \u2013 a highlight was a number which was played entirely on their bodies \u2013 clapping, beating their chests and stamping their feet. Just incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\n&amp;nbsp<br \/>\n&amp;nbsp<\/p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp<br \/>\n&amp;nbsp<\/p>\n<p>The audience really was spellbound and each number was cheered and clapped at the end as if each was the end of a very successful show. A standing ovation at the end proved that indeed it was just that. The audience ranged in age from children to older adults and the show very obviously appealed to all ages, given that so many of them wanted to talk to Daniel and Manuel after the show.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for those who weren\u2019t lucky enough to get a ticket, today (14th) was their last show. But fear not, Manuel continues from the 15th with a one-man show \u2013\u00a0Marimba Mirage\u00a0(same time, same place), which I urge you not to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Ta Bamm!\u00a0is fabulous and I hope Wooden Impact continue to grace the Fringe for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ta Bamm!\u00a0(Alba Theatre at Braw Venues @ Hill Street) is one of the most unusual, unexpected and wonderful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-347406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115034684557538972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}