Written by Meghan Tyler Directed by Dominic Hill Tickets from £14.00 ★★★★ ”Flag Wanker” If you’ve been on social media for more than an hour you’re likely familiar with the charming turn of phrase for those who utilise their personal biographies to plaster it, instead, with a smattering of nationalist flag emojis. But this latest … Continue reading FLEG – A Play, A Pie, and a Pint
Directed by Joe Atkinson and Kylie Lam Produced by Iain Cunningham Review by Ben Connaughton ★★★★★ The University of St Andrews’ Musical Theatre Society, or MusT, took a creative detour from their programme of book musicals to perform a one-night, one-act concert which charted the history of musical theatre: A Chronicle in Concert. The unique … Continue reading A Chronicle in Concert – Laidlaw Music Centre, St. Andrews
https://youtu.be/p_dXQxrksOE Directed by John MacLaverty ★★★★ If you’ve ever traversed a fraction of the shores and winding roads around Loch Ness, there’s one thing that staggers any unfamiliar with the landscape – the scale, the depth, the enormity of Scotland’s most famous Loch. With a volume greater than all of England and Wales’ collective fresh-water … Continue reading Loch Ness: They Created a Monster
https://youtu.be/0VH9WCFV6XQ?si=GZSxKRGNo5edX885 Screenplay by Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddleback, and Emma Tammi Directed by Emma Tammi ★★ There are some not-so-quiet corners of the internet where the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise holds a vice-like grip of fandom. The excessively lore-heavy and intricate video game series from Scott Cawthon found stratospheric success with reaction videos and let’s plays … Continue reading Five Nights at Freddy’s
Produced by Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland Based on Hamish Henderson's Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica Choreographed by Helen Gould and George Adams ★★★★ In a time where the power of storytelling is manipulated into turning a day of peace into propaganda, it’s vital to recognise the weight which words, rhetoric, images and movements … Continue reading Elegies – The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Written by Ben Weatherill Directed by Sean Mathias Review by Dominic Corr ★★ The two-hander park-bench show, where drama and comedy belay a more personal narrative of self-discovery, is far from a ground-breaking concept. However, if done right with solid performances and enticing hooks, they can pry open unexplored avenues. Frank and Percy, despite its stage-legacy casting … Continue reading Review: Frank and Percy – The Other Palace, London
Written by Walt McGough Directed by Hannah Bradley Coall Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★ Possession and manipulated identities, as a storytelling tool, are nothing new: spiritual or from beyond the stars. And though the science fiction element of this trope is seldom utilised on the stage, Walt McGough’s Chalk, currently being staged for its UK debut by … Continue reading Chalk – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
Tickets from £20.00 ★★★★★ It’s easy to become bloated with the savoury and saccharine delights on the stage right now; endlessly repetitive, though enjoyable, servings of immense shows with gooey gowns and glittering effects. But occasionally, something punctuates the noise with a reserved sense of authenticity, class, and showstopping storytelling. Folks, that something is the … Continue reading Mandy Patinkin: Live in Concert – The Lyric Theatre, London
Written and Directed by Aggie Perry Robinson Assistant Direction by Eve Hartley Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★ For a work that is so concerned with names and the power of naming, it is ironic that Eleanor was initially described to me in passing as “a play about Karl Marx’s daughter”. Immediately the thought of a communist-inspired, student-written … Continue reading Eleanor – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh
Written by John McKay Directed by Liz Carruthers ★★★★ Some things creep up before a job interview: anxiety, nausea, sweating, delayed buses, and maybe even some nervous tummy rumbles. What many don’t expect is your dad sitting in on the biggest interview of your life. But this isn’t helicopter parenting taken to the extreme. No, … Continue reading Dead Dad Dog – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
