Theatre review: Forbidden Stories, Traverse, Edinburgh

Working between Edinburgh and Cyprus, Ludens Ensemble are well known on the capital’s fringe theatre scene for their shake-ups of classics such as Macbeth and Ubu Roi. With this latest show, though, they move into new territory, constructing a careful and passionate verbatim drama – based on real-life testimonies – about the shocking partition of Cyprus that followed the Turkish invasion of 1974, itself provoked by a Greek-dominated island government which had proposed a complete union with Greece.