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
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Meredith Willson Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey Directed by Fraser Grant Tickets from £25.50 ★★★★ Riding on the high-flying success of last year's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Southern Light Opera still finds themselves in the Festival Theatre, looking to raise the rafter with musical splendour and community cheer. And in Meredith Willson’s 1957 musical The Music Man, they find another winner. The tale … Continue reading Review: The Music Man – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Adapted by Glyn Maxwell from Edmund Rostand Directed by Phil Barnes Tickets: £15.00 ★★★★ Unconditional love is a bounty of limitless possibilities - chiefly pain and euphoria. There’s no wonder why it is the rhyme & reason of many a poet and performer. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac underpins the values of loyalty and forms of expressive love with that of a … Continue reading Review: Cyrano de Bergerac – Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Hannah McGregor Directed by Niall King Tickets: £18.50 (Con. available) ★★★★ Without so much as a prompt, the audience clicks their fingers in this infamous beat. There isn’t a person in the room (alive or long departed) who doesn’t know what ghoulish treats are awaiting them. Reinventing themselves time and time over, fending … Continue reading Review: The Addams Family – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
