Civic Digits - Codebase, Edinburgh. Picture credit: Neil Hanna Many Good Men: A New Chapter in Scotland’s Fight Against Misogyny Civic Digits and the Educational Institute of Scotland have unveiled the Many Good Men Education Pack—a resource that feels less like a teaching aid and more like a necessary intervention. In a landscape where misogyny … Continue reading Have a Gander at Many Good Men; Educators Pack and Documentary
https://youtu.be/P12_dHXCzuU Performed and Devised by Sadiq Ali, Phoebe Knight, Jonah Russell Artistic Direction by Sadiq Ali Review by Marina Funcasta The Studio (Edinburgh run) ★★★★ Sadiq Ali Company stuns with their new show, Tell Me. Taking an HIV diagnosis as a starting point, we follow Grace, played with delicacy by Phoebe Knight, as she contends … Continue reading Review: Tell Me – The Place, London
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine Directed by Tai Remus Elliot and Hunter King Review by Dominic Corr Church Hill Theatre ★★★★ There’s a particular thrill in watching a student‑led company tackle Sondheim. His music is famously intricate, his lyrics unforgiving, and his storytelling a labyrinth of tonal shifts and moral ambiguity. Yet … Continue reading Review: EUSOG’s Into The Woods – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt after Susan Hill’s Book Directed By Robin Herford Review by Dominic Corr The Theatre Royal ★★★★ There’s something deliciously perverse about watching a ghost story unfold in a grand Victorian auditorium, especially one as storied as the Theatre Royal Glasgow. In an age where horror is often filtered through screens, algorithms, … Continue reading Review: The Women in Black – The Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Presented by Citadel Arts Group Review by Hunter King ★★★★ This past weekend, the Scottish Storytelling Centre staged a production of In A Class of their Own, a play adapted by Sam Cassimally, based on the novel of the same name by a well-beloved Edinburgh writer, Millie Gray. The play tells a story of Rachel … Continue reading Review: In A Class of Their Own – The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
Written and Performed by James Clements Composed by Lisa Rigby Directed by Cora Bissett Review by Dominic Corr The Georgian House ★★★ Reinvention: it’s the necessity of survival. But for theatrical retellings of Scotland’s Bard, additional takes on Robert Burns’ turbulent life are starting to threaten to burn at both ends. In a cultural landscape … Continue reading Review: The Burns Project – The Georgian House, Edinburgh
Photo Credit - Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Out In The Hills: a midwinter queer uprising with tartan edges There are January weekends that drag like wet tweed, and there are January weekends that feel like a defibrillator to Scotland’s cultural heart. Out In The Hills is decisively the latter: a concentrated blast of theatre, conversation, music, and gloriously … Continue reading Have a Gander at Out in the Hills: Scotland’s New Queer Beacon in the Highlands, Pitlochry Theatre
Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★ Memoirs proving all the rage in recent years, the magic of the genre often resides in the stories themselves, not necessarily the form through which they are told. Luke Wright is the exception. In this spoken word performance, Wright selects extracts from his memoir, Later Life Letter, and strings them … Continue reading Review: Luke Wright: Later Life Letter – Southbank Centre, London
https://youtu.be/NI9YuZK887k Choreography by Hayley Earlam Produced by Isy Sharman Review by Dominic Corr Information ★★★★ With the frost departing Edinburgh, for some, the last thing on their minds would be a visit to the coolness and celebration of winter found with Brrr, an enchanting sensory installation and live performance of light, sound, and movement from … Continue reading Review: Brrr – The Studio, Edinburgh
Running from January 20th - 24th, the Edinburgh Universe Savoy Opera Group’s production of Into The Woods brings Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s beloved fairy-tale musical to life at Church Hill Theatre in Edinburgh this January. Featuring classic characters like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and Rapunzel, the show asks what happens after the … Continue reading Have a Gander at EUSOG’S Into The Woods with the Cast and Crew
