VALERIE

Is who we are simply a product of our DNA, asks Robin Kelly, in this poignant and often breathtaking show about family history and mental illness, showing at Summerhall. Key episodes are played out by Kelly and his band through towering musical numbers – thrash metal, Debbie Harry-style rap and everything in between – before he is left alone to tell a story of what one man has lived with and perhaps, with the help of his fellow performers, overcome.