Photo credit - Frederic Aranda Ever since The Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s current Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman, announced they were stepping down from the role to bring their exceptional talents to Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, the flurry of natterings and rumours of who could possibly step into the role rippled. And it would be a relatively fair … Continue reading Have A Gander – Alan Cumming Named Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Written by Sophie Swithinbank Directed by Nancy Medina Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall: Tickets ★★★★ Onstage stands an empty chair as the audience takes their seats in the Tech Cube, awaiting playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s return to Summerhall after the soaring success of last year’s sell-out sensation and collaboration with HFH Productions, Bacon. Behind the chair … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Surrender
Musical Direction by Ed Zander Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★ Sitting in Pleasance’s Queen Dome, aptly the fringe home of a queen of the West End, the audience titters excitedly for Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret, which promises to be an afternoon of song, dance, and a response to the ongoing climate … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret
Produced by Sweet Beef and Pleasance Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★★ Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, one and all to the Cabaret Fragile! Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your…lonely self. Crying Shame is a spectacle of cabaret, camp, clowning, and, most importantly, serving a whole evening’s worth of another c-word *censored*. Come … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Crying Shame
Review by Christian Maddick ★★★★ Seeing somebody onstage whose online presence precedes them can be a bit worrisome, as there is no certainty of their talent translating well in a live setting. In ‘Bailey J Mills: Unfiltered + Scummy’, drag artist Bailey J Mills quashes any of these concerns from the beginning, creating an utterly … Continue reading Bailey J Mills: Unfiltered + Scummy – Gilded Balloon Teviot
Written by Sarah-Louise Young Directed by Sioned Jones ★★★★ It would seem singers and Mermaids have something in common: sometimes, it takes losing their voice to realise aspects they long forgot and push them to embark on an unexpected, though necessary journey. With loose tones of The Little Mermaid (with only an ounce of some … Continue reading The Silent Treatment – Summerhall
Created by Eleanor Perry & Daniel Hay-Gordon ★★★★ Cobbling together as varied and enriched a style as they can muster, duo Eleanor Perry (Tight) and Daniel Hay-Gordon (Thick) combine an arrangement of queer culture, design, mime, choreography and heaping of dramatic inspiration into this mixed arrangement of short pieces. Seven. To be exact. Though unfortunately … Continue reading Short & Sweet – The Studio
Creative Team: Dominic Lewis, Felicity Halfpenny, Finlay Turaball, Andrew Layton & Annie Stoner Video Produced & Edited by Mark WIlson ★★★★ Where better to begin, than with a touch of Cabaret. Live, from The Three Sisters, or gracing your digital screens with their filmed rehearsals, Rory McKeon’s Wilkommen sets things off with a bang - and how … Continue reading We Belong – Bare Productions
★★ For near-on over a decade, Texan vocalist Lauren Turner has been a crowd favourite across the Cabaret haunts of New York City. Featuring five of Turner’s memorable song choices from her childhood and cabaret career, Play On is a demonstration of which tunes led her down the path to the woman she is today. With a … Continue reading Lauren Turner: Play On – Broadway Records
Written by Various Serving up a digital variation of their usual live den of inequities, Beau Jangles hosts Razed and Confused, an evening of song, cabaret, experimental art, but above all else, an appreciation and promotion of queer artistry. This evening, four producers who are receiving funding and coaching from other creatives manifest their talents, their … Continue reading Razed & Confused goes Digital – Online
