Based on Compton Mackenzie's Book Directed by Annie McKenzie ★★★★ Continuing their eighty years, with absolutely no sign of stopping, Edinburgh People’s Theatre returns to its spiritual residence with their long Edinburgh Festival Fringe relationship, this time in Mayfield Salisbury Church Hall to perform an exceptionally well-loved and brilliant production, Whisky Galore. Desperate for a drop … Continue reading Whisky Galore – Mayfield Salisbury Church
Directed by Lewis C. Baird Assistant Direction by Jack Masson Choreography by Taylor Doherty Vocal Coaching by Erin Munro ★★★★★ Instinctively, the audience clicks their fingers. For over eighty years, the gruesome and charming family of gloom and doom has found ways to reinvent and adapt to the new cultural "in". From the satire of … Continue reading The Addams Family – Broughton High School
Book by Allan Knee Music and Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and Jason Howland. Directed by Jo Heinemeier Musical Direction by Hannah Fleming ★★★★ Fresh off the hugely successful run of RENT in the same venue, Bare Productions turn towards a timeless novel turned fan-favourite musical to close out their Festival Fringe run for the year. And what … Continue reading Little Women – Paradise in Augustines
Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Directed by Sally Lyall Musical Directed by Colum Findlay and Fraser Hume ★★★★★ Cutting to the chase – the talent and determination of the entire Captivate Theatre team has always carried a guarantee of solid entertainment and an absolute beacon of brilliance for the Edinburgh grassroots community. … Continue reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame -Edinburgh Academy
Music, Lyrics and Book by Jonathan Larson Directed by Dominic Lewis ★★★★ Though often unceremoniously relegated to a ‘vintage’ Rock Opera musical, the Pulitzer Prize-winning RENT remains a legacy production, a story of genuine friendship and companionship and the preservation of love and shared experiences in the face of cruelty and disease – both literal … Continue reading RENT – Paradise in Augustines
Music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda Lyrics by Amanda Green and Lin-Manuel Miranda ★★★★ Rival squads, cheerleading-comedy hi-jinks, and enough late noughties references and melodrama to fill a locker room, Bring It On! takes the cultural zeitgeist of the Kirsten Dunst film, shaped it and emerges as a Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda musical fan favourite … Continue reading Bring It On! The Beyond Broadway Experience – Festival Theatre
Written by William Shakespeare Produced and Directed by Helen Schofield ★★★★ Among the Pea blossoms and the Midges, a secret awaits Edinburgh audiences. Those lucky enough to take a stroll through the Saughton Italian Garden cross the barriers of the betwixt and between the realm of wonderment, magic, fae-folk and arcane hijinks as William Shakespeare’s … Continue reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Saughton Park
Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside ★★★★ A kingdom without a King is a city rife for the taking, one of vice and little virtue. Or maybe it’s one benefitting from democracy without tyranny? Either way, the Supreme Grandmaster of the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night … Continue reading Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! – Pleasance Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Adapted by Jeremy Sams Staged and Directed by Quintin Young Musical Direction by Tommie Travers ★★★★ Fresh from the success of their 125th anniversary, Southern Light Opera go from the rolling hills of Austria and take flight with the Sherman Brother’s much-loved tale of … Continue reading Southern Light Opera presents Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Festival Theatre
Adapted by Derek Webb, from the novel by Ethel Lina White Artistic Direction by Fiona Main ★★★ Dipping into the endless sensibilities and prudish tropes of the 1930s English middle class, this period thriller spins itself into a spiffing evening for Baronesses and Teaboys alike. The more sinister notions of Hitchcock’s film adaptation are treated … Continue reading The Lady Vanishes – Churchill Theatre
