Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside Composition and Musical Direction by Dug Campbell Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ Pratchett goes Panto, and we’re here for every minute of it. A classic pantomime horse, some carol singing, even the odd boo and hiss trickles out of the audience for Strawmoddie’s latest step into the … Continue reading Review: Going Postal – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
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 by Walt McGough Directed by Hannah Bradley Coall Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★ Possession and manipulated identities, as a storytelling tool, are nothing new: spiritual or from beyond the stars. And though the science fiction element of this trope is seldom utilised on the stage, Walt McGough’s Chalk, currently being staged for its UK debut by … Continue reading Chalk – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
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 Michael Frayn Directed by Ross Hope ★★★★ Spectres linger in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, which received a strong reception from audiences at the Assembly Roxy last week. Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group utilise their usual pedigree to translate a tricky play with competence and intellect. Opening, in quite the contrary way to a performance so … Continue reading Copenhagen – Assembly Roxy
