Created by Tina Landau Creative Direction by Dominic Lewis and Felicity Halfpenny Musical Direction by Louisa Everett Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £16.00 ★★★★ If the question “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” means anything to you, you’ll be buzzing/horrified to find out that The SpongeBob Musical is a thing now! Brought … Continue reading Review: Spongebob The Musical – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Mart Crowley Directed by Elle Catherine Willcocks and Aaron de Verés Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £7.00 ★★★★ As always, Bedlam Theatre provides a slice of excellent theatre that rarely performs outside of the venue in Edinburgh. From Translations to Mother Clap’s Molly House, they offer an opportunity to catch seldom performed … Continue reading Review: The Boys in the Band – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by J B Priestley Directed by Martin Foreman Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ Opening to an Edwardian drawing room, it is hard to expect anything else from a J.B. Priestley ‘Time Play’. Scorched into imaginations thanks to English GCSE, the deceptive ease of his nostalgic sensationalism is widely acknowledged. And yet, … Continue reading Review: Dangerous Corner – The Assemby Roxy, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/IsOEUkJtxFI Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Directed by Susie Dumbreck Tickets from £18.00 ★★★★★ We hope you’re comfortably in attendance for the ballad of musical theatre’s cut-throat musical, the family black sheep, which revels in the macabre and Victorian-London draping surrounding it. An ambitious and hugely successful production, this isn’t … Continue reading Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Directed by Dominic Lewis Musical Direction by Finlay Turnbull Review by Dominic Corr Paradise in Augustine : Tickets ★★★★★ Occasionally, the best parts of the story – or, in this case, the review – aren’t reserved for the tale’s ending. So, reversing the traditional happy ending, we’ll begin with a happy beginning: Into The Woods … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bare Productions: Into The Woods
Written by Terry Pratchett Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside ★★★★ Edinburgh-based Strawmoddie is back, transforming the Pleasance Theatre into the marvellously quirky and wonderous world of Terry Pratchett once again as an early part of Edinburgh’s Cymera festival, the dedicated festival to genre-based literature: a fine home for the madness of Pratchett’s … Continue reading Review: Men at Arms – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/vlAjJE8mqqw Cabinet of Miracles - The Naive Theatre Liberec, Czech Republic ★★★★ Univers - Engruna Teatre, Catalonia ★★★★ AN-Ki - Cia. Ortiga, Catalonia ★★★★★ Imaginate Tickets and Programme It’s said the world was made in seven days; The Naive Theatre Liberec did it in forty-five minutes. Contemporary alchemy, Cabinet of Miracles already sets this year’s … Continue reading Review: Imaginate Round Up – The Cabinet of Miracles, Univers, and An-Ki
https://youtu.be/Tj0NtV3nVY0?list=PLOCmLnR_yij2SbasbRP1cF2GspEetRKxh The Flock - Concept and Direction by Roser Lopez Espinosa Moving Cloud - Choreography by Sofia Nappi Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets ★★★★ Ask most of us what special gift we could wish for, and a significant portion would express our innate desire to fly. A celebration of two company's roots in Scottish culture and … Continue reading Review: The Flock and Moving Cloud – Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee Rep
Directed by Florence Carr Jones Review by Marina Funcasta Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets ★★★★ Walking into White Space, it was impossible not to notice the sea of heads surrounding ‘It’s A Sheet Play’s’ only set piece - a blow-up mattress. For a play which concerns itself with individual conceptions of intimacy and closeness, it’s safe … Continue reading Review: It’s a Sheet Show – White Space, Edinburgh
Written by Philip Ridley Directed by Abbye Eve Tickets: £15.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ When the programme arrives with a party bag, audiences know they’re in for an experience. But no matter what avenue one may expect Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe to wander down – they're likely wrong. What initially seems to be a toxically churned production on ageing … Continue reading Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
