Written by Paul Allen Directed by Jacqueline Wheble ★★★★ A choice between eating and heating. Fishing for coins down the sofa to pay the gas and the constant threat of unemployment and rising costs. Sounds all too familiar. Paul Allen’s 1998 stage adaptation of Mark Herman’s screenplay for the 1996 film Brassed Off manages one of the … Continue reading Brassed Off – Church Hill Theatre
Featuring the Music of Elvis Presley Book by Joe DiPietro Directed by Scott Coltman ★★★★ Rightfully opening on Valentine's Day, Edinburgh grassroots theatre group The Bohemians sprinkle the air of the Churchill Theatre with love, passion and a heaping bucket of lust and pelvic-thrusting deviance. Arriving onto the scenes in some tight pants and high-rise … Continue reading All Shook Up – Churchill Theatre
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray Adapted by Declan Donnellan Directed by Hilary Spiers ★★★ Vanity Fair sits among the dusted tomes as a monumentally respected collection of volumes, collated, collected, and often adapted – most famously by Declan Donnellan's 1983 premiere production in Edinburgh with Nick Ormerod. Though for many it’s placed there as a ‘good … Continue reading Vanity Fair – Churchill Theatre
Music & Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin Book by Heather Hach Directed by Dominic Lewis ★★★★★ Allegro Musical Theatre sits among the very best of Edinburgh’s grassroots theatrical societies. And to refer to them as an amateur production company, while technically accurate, would somewhat diminish the quality of their latest production – Legally Blonde. … Continue reading Legally Blonde – Churchill Theatre
Artistic Direction by Simon Boothroyd Based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim ★★★★ An Italian Castle, fit for the finest, is the spectacle of Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel Enchanted April, which finds two English women, Lotty and Rose, take it upon themselves to grasp the opportunity and shatter the social dynamics and embark on … Continue reading Enchanted April – Churchhill Theatre
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