Theatre review: Home is Not the Place, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

IT’S not a showy piece of work, Annie George’s show Home Is Not The Place, based on an earlier piece known as The Bridge. One performer, one stepladder, one screen, one old tall desk of the kind from which schoolteachers once dominated classrooms across the British Empire; and with these basic materials, one of Scotland’s most powerful and interesting writer-performers gets to work, conjuring up the whole history of her family through her own effort to research the life of her Keralan grandfather PM John, who died aged 40 in 1945, two years before India won its independence.