Written by Terry Pratchett Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside ★★★★ Edinburgh-based Strawmoddie is back, transforming the Pleasance Theatre into the marvellously quirky and wonderous world of Terry Pratchett once again as an early part of Edinburgh’s Cymera festival, the dedicated festival to genre-based literature: a fine home for the madness of Pratchett’s … Continue reading Review: Men at Arms – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Written and Directed by Alexander Cook ★★★ The extent to one’s devotion can know no bounds – a dangerous concept when considering how far some will take their vows. And there is no denying that the church's influence on rural communities is as vice-like as its coppers in the city banks. Schism captures a thrillingly macabre … Continue reading Schism – Augustine United Church
Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside ★★★★ A kingdom without a King is a city rife for the taking, one of vice and little virtue. Or maybe it’s one benefitting from democracy without tyranny? Either way, the Supreme Grandmaster of the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night … Continue reading Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! – Pleasance Theatre
Written by Agatha Christie Directed by Matthew Jebb and Jonathan Whiteside ★★★ There’s an irresistible pull to the macabre and sinister, an instinctual thirst for something bloody and mysterious which goes against our nature to survive. It’s that sliver of brutality that the most successful female playwright, and a rather famous author Agatha Christie, captures … Continue reading And Then There Were None – Central Hall, Tollcross
Written & Directed by Martin Foreman ★★★ Who owns a story these days? Particularly a tale in which we know not the beginning, nor the end, or even most of the middle. For two millennia, The Satyricon has been picked at, adapted, added to, twisted and perverted more so than any contemporary text can fear. And it … Continue reading The Satyricon – Assembly Roxy
