Written & Directed by Cosette Bolt Assistant Direction by Michael Stephens Music Direction by Mhairi Cross Tickets Free - (Donation encouraged) ★★★★ It’s miraculous to find new ways to stage Dicken’s legacy piece: this season alone has seen several new and returning attempts to capture the spirit of the ultimate ghost story, A Christmas Carol, through innovative technique, solo … Continue reading A Christmas Carol – St Salvador’s Church, Edinburgh
Written & Directed by Lewis Baird Choreographed by Aidan O'Brien & Amy Campbell Musical Direction & Original Music by Tommie Travers Tickets from £15.50 ★★★ With the Portobello Town Hall once more erupting with a thriving sense of life and community (following the group's critical success with Oliver!) Stage Door Entertainment sets its eyes on casting magic … Continue reading Cinderella – Portobello Town Hall
https://youtu.be/13LRgCTASUI Created and Performed by Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxy Cantir Co-produced by Raw Materials and Capital Theatres Tickets from £12.50 ★★★★ Love glitter? Love Christmas? Love Unicorns? Oh, well then, this is the show for you, your little unicorns, and anyone who you can bring into a magical fifty-minute showcase of movement, colour and interactivity thanks to … Continue reading Unicorn Christmas Party – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written by Andrew McHugh With Additional Material by Elaine C Smith & Johnny Mac Directed by Kathryn Rooney Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ The people of Glaswegia don’t often get the call for a party - tricky to do this when your monarch is the cruel (though stylish) Queen Cranachan, but things are about to change. … Continue reading Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs – King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Martin McCormick ★★★ It’s hard enough getting one maw a gift for their Christmas, let alone seven. So thank heavens that the Òran Mór's Winter Pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Maws, from Scotland’s panto maestro Johnny McKnight, makes the perfect pre-stocking stuffer for audiences in Glasgow and Scotland. … Continue reading Snow White and the Seven Maws – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Written and Directed by Sheryn Ali Music Arranged by James McCutcheon Tickets: £16.50 ★★★★ Who needs to trek themselves all over the country to catch as many pantomimes as possible when they’re all here, under one banner, in a terrifically smashing and collective production of Alice in Pantoland! From the fairest in the land to the … Continue reading Alice in Pantoland – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/-6zzHywYHVs Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Sally Reid Tickets from £17.50 ★★★★ Thus far we’ve had a look at a stringent one-man telling of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, and a revived juggernaut of a show which captures the survival of theatre within its bones. And if there was ever a question that Panto hero Johnny McKnight’s Aganeza Scrooge was … Continue reading Aganeza Scrooge – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Created by Adrenalism Theatre ★★★ Know your blockchains from your NFT? Us neither. But don’t fret – Warren and Shaw are here to help us: armed with tailored cuts and some handy-dandy props, the pair aim to equip us with the necessary tools to make our millions, get a step above the competition, and along … Continue reading A Very Crypto Christmas – Summerhall, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/iyWDB962pOw From the Work of Charles Dickens Adapted by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie Directed by Andrew Panton Musical Direction by Isaac Savage Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★★ There was a time when we boxed it all away. Unsure if we would even ever open it again. We stored away plans and adventures as we waited for … Continue reading A Christmas Carol – Dundee Rep
From the Novel by Charles Dickens Directed by Angela Harkness Robertson ★★★ Puppets, cartoons, re-visionist history, musicals, futuristic, Bill Murray: filmmakers and playwrights have endeavoured to re-tell Charles Dicken’s tale of redemption and guilt for decades. A Christmas Carol, The quintessential festive ghost story of the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge’s visits from the deities of history – spectres … Continue reading A Christmas Carol – Assembly Roxy
