Created & Co-Artistic Production by Wren Brian Dramaturg & Co-Artistic Production by Patti Flather Available Here ★★★ You’re just doing your job, right? How far would you go to maintain peace in a world of chaos. And just how true is pleading ignorance in defence of horrific acts, spoken without prior knowledge and just following … Continue reading Review: The Investigator
Written by Martin Travers Directed by Kate Black and Annmarie Strain ★★★★ Progress is inevitable. So, it's argued. But is the push for clinical conformity and pounds in the pockets of developers worth the annihilation of opportunity and community? Worth the displacement of the only areas which remain open for those marginalised who require local … Continue reading Review: The Heckelburnie Hecklers – Brian Cox Theatre, The Boardwalk, Glasgow
Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver Directed by Freya Game Tickets from £6.00 ★★★ If an image, a single photograph, can conjure up a thousand words – then a song shouldn’t be too much trouble. But what about sixteen songs? Finding strength in a non-linear format is challenging but not impossible. Where most musical theatre follows … Continue reading Review: 35mm: A Musical Exhibition – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields Directed by Adam Meggido Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ After ten years with multiple tours and a schtick which, when seen once, reveals the biggest gags of the show, one would expect that the gig becomes a touch stale for repeat viewers. But staggeringly, Mischief Comedy’s second eldest child, Peter Pan … Continue reading Review: Peter Pan Goes Wrong – Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Liam Moffat Directed by Gareth Nicholls Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ For anyone who has spent any portion of their day wading through discarded chew toys, endless strands of hair, or endured walks in the chucking rain and cleared up enough cat vomit than you thought a creature that size could produce - they’ll … Continue reading Review: Jack – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/d4IQuwxRLm0 Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Joanna Bowman Review by Anna Burnside Tickets from £15.50 ★★★★ On a minimal set, a row of mottled legs end in well-used feet in comfortable sandals. Three women of bus pass-carrying age in mismatched chairs are drinking tea and discussing the things that absorb neighbours - the state of the … Continue reading Review: Escaped Alone – The Tron Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/T8GQUmNvdgA Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle Music and Lyrics by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Calendar Girls The Musical somehow still feels like a breath of fresh air in 2024, over twenty years since the real-life women of the Women’s Institute posed for their calendar in aid of charity. The Bill Kenwright LTD … Continue reading Review: Calendar Girls The Musical – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by David Greig Directed by Wils Wilson Tickets from £16.00 ★★ Nostalgia is a notoriously dangerous drug: addictive, encompassing, distracting, but oh-so nourishing. It clouds judgements and fractures our ability to move from the past and adapt - entirely apparent in David Greig’s new play Two Sisters, in a co-production with Malmö Stadsteater and the Royal Lyceum, … Continue reading Review: Two Sisters – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Directed by Phee Simpson Musical Direction by Emily Phillips Tickets from £11.oo ★★★★ It would seem as though 1950s New York is too tantalising a decade for Edinburgh University’s theatre scene: stepping into the same realm as last year’s Shakespeare Company’s production of Julius Ceasar, Phee Simpson’s … Continue reading Review: Guys and Dolls: The Musical – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams Directed by Nikolai Foster Tickets from £20.00 ★★★★ For those who thought the Edinburgh Playhouse’s fascination with the colour green had left with the departing for the smash-hit Wicked, … Continue reading Review: The Wizard of Oz – The Playhouse, Edinburgh
