https://youtu.be/ds7EI97Q2Vk Written by Joe Brumm Music by Joff Bush Directed by Rosemary Myers Tickets from £18.50 ★★★★ From a gentle beginning, as the bin chickens (ibises) scuttle around the set, cawing and mewling to the audience, Bluey’s Big Play already takes a more original and gentle approach than similar television to stage adaptations. But that … Continue reading Review: Bluey’s Big Play – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
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
Performed by Jon Culshaw Review by Annie Aslett ★★★ During his new show, Imposter Syndrome, Jon Culshaw always gets laughs. But he also gets cheers, boos, groans and bittersweet sighs. These come as he embodies the likes of Ronnie Corbett, Donald Trump, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the late, great Paul O’Grady. A master of his well-honed craft, … Continue reading Jon Culshaw: Imposter Syndrome – Gilded Balloon Teviot: Debating Hall
https://youtu.be/fdxajUFO8vI Written by Steven Knight Directed & Choreographed by Benoit Swan Pouffer ★★★★ The Festival Theatre is under new management folks, and they’re not the type you’d want to raise a complaint with. Not that you’d have any with the venue’s newest show, as Edinburgh welcomes the highly anticipated Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas … Continue reading Rambert: Peaky Blinders – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/7eyaId1TBP4 Written by Nathan Cockerill Theatre Direction by Chris Jarvis Film Direction by Geoff Coward ★★★★ A tradition from Auntie Beeb themselves, the CBeebies Pantomime has become an annual event for cheerful faces across the nation on both the small and, in recent years, the big screen. And this year is no different as we’re off to … Continue reading CBeebies Panto: Dick Whittington and His Cat
https://youtu.be/wL_LXR2l0P0 Choreography by Oti Mabuse ★★★★ I Am Here. Living in the moment, the ballistic energy Mabuse exudes captures the title of her semi-biographic production in droves – a woman who recognises her background influences, with eyes firmly set on the future, without much pause for breath in sight. A direct translation of her name in … Continue reading Oti Mabuse – Festival Theatre
Conducted by Marin Alsop ★★★★★ In a hypnotic masterclass of a performance, festival favourite Marin Alsop returns to Edinburgh to conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Offering an amalgam of diverse and joyful renditions, culminating in Beethoven’s fifth symphony, Alsop and the orchestra meet long-held expectations with this triumphant performance. Emerging to a ravenous crowd – eagerly awaiting the … Continue reading BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Edinburgh International Festival
Written by Roberta Livingston Directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour ★★★★ What’s a thief’s worst nightmare? Dogs, police, alarms, Macaulay Culkin? Or is it running into another thief whilst in the middle of a break-in? Willow and Nicole find themselves in the garden of No. 92, both with quite different intentions for this evening’s activities. They decide … Continue reading Talawa Stories: Pretty Little Thing – BBC Radio 4
Written by Terence Rattigan Directed by Alastair Knights ★★★★ It isn’t all champagne and memories, as a sinister shadow lurks over Rosemary’s face, both metaphorical and literal. As the whiskey sours into the air, a toxic presence emerges as Rosemary confronts the truth about her late husband. Rosemary begins to answer for Gregory, filling in … Continue reading All On Her Own – MZG Theatre Productions
