Choreography from Cayetano Soto, Sophie Laplane, Peter Darrell, and Madeline Squire Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £14.50 ★★★★★ In his welcome in tonight’s programme, Artistic Director Christopher Hampson sums up Scottish Ballet’s repertoire as “bold new work, charged contemporary and iconic classical”. For two nights only, Scottish Ballet is at The Beacon in Greenock, … Continue reading Review: Scottish Ballet at The Beacon – Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
Created by Tina Landau Creative Direction by Dominic Lewis and Felicity Halfpenny Musical Direction by Louisa Everett Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £16.00 ★★★★ If the question “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” means anything to you, you’ll be buzzing/horrified to find out that The SpongeBob Musical is a thing now! Brought … Continue reading Review: Spongebob The Musical – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Music and Lyrics by The Sherman Brothers Stage Adaptation by Jeremy Sams Directed by Thom Southerland Tickets from £29.00 ★★★★ Sixty years ago, writer Ian Fleming created a story of mad-cap inventions, spies, and abducted children, forced to be saved by a decidedly British chap and his love interest with a pun-inspired name. And yes, … Continue reading Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – The Edinburgh Playhouse
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 Jamie Lloyd Written by William Shakespeare Review by Annie Aslett Tickets ★★★ The long-awaited curtain (actually an enormous metal gate) is finally up on Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Duke of York Theatre. Quoted in the show’s programme, Lloyd remarks on his evolution as a director and an emerging new philosophy for the Jamie Lloyd Company: he seeks … Continue reading Review: Romeo & Juliet – The Duke of York’s Theatre, London
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 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
