Theatre reviews: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Playhouse, Edinburgh | Still No Idea, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

IN A DARK street, a young gay man is beaten up by local thugs. It’s a common scene, both in drama and in reality; and it’s no coincidence that it features in both of the big mainstage shows playing in Edinburgh this week, at the Festival and Playhouse theatres. In Cabaret, it’s the growth of Nazi violence on the streets of 1930s Berlin; and in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, it’s a bunch of rednecks in a small town in the Australian bush taking it out on Adam (also known as Felicia), the young Sydney drag queen who has joined our hero Tick and his older trans friend Bernadette on a riotous bus journey across Australia to Alice Springs, where Tick – now likewise a drag queen in Sydney – wants to reconnect with the the son he fathered during a brief youthful marriage.