The High Life musical revisits beloved Scottish characters with humor and charm, celebrating nostalgia while delivering engaging performances, vibrant staging, and delightful music, ensuring an entertaining experience.
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Review: The Seagull – The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Written by Anton Chekhov Adapted by Mike Poulton Directed by James Brining Review by Dominic Corr The Royal Lyceum ★★★★ A vivid, sharp-edged debut for a new era at The Lyceum, The Seagull marries brash comic energy with moments of sombre reflection, anchored by a commanding turn from Caroline Quentin and a richly textured ensemble … Continue reading Review: The Seagull – The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ruins at The Studio, Edinburgh
Direction by Bex Anson MHz Movement Artists - Philip Alexander McDonald, Rita Hu, and Suzi Cunningham ★★★★ Easily earning itself the most influentially abstract of the Manipulate Festival 2024 pieces, Bex Anson MHz’s highly visual expressive dance performance Ruins (performed by Suzi Cunningham, Rita Hu, and Philip Alexander McDonald) commands an entire spectrum of life. Three beings, the last humans on Earth, become … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ruins at The Studio, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ragnarok at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Direction by Alex Bird Original Direction by Ross MacKay and Arran Howie Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Under the gaze of the one-eyed deity, the world below is changing. A golden age of peace and prosperity - infected with avarice, hatred, and endless aggression. Winter has failed to ebb, and the sun hangs low in the sky, … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ragnarok at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – La Conquête at The Studio, Edinburgh
Directed by Nicolas Alline and Dorothée Saysombat Tickets from £13.00 ★★★ Mercifully, theatrical expressions and writings surrounding colonial conquest are prying open the locked eyes of ignorance with growing abundancy: Enough of Him, Blood and Gold, Meaning of Zong, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Ghosts, and at the previous Festival Fringe there was tremendous success with Dark Noon. A conversation and discussion often … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – La Conquête at The Studio, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Tess at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/IfePa4DHrq0 Adapted and Directed by Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney - Ockham’s Razor Devised by Alex Harvey, Charlotte Mooney, Macadie Amoroso, Joshua Frazer, Lauren Jamieson, Lila Naruse, Victoria Skillen, Leah Wallings and Nat Whittingham Choreography by Nathan Johnston ★★★★★ Ockham’s Razor, the world-class and award-winning aerial theatre company presents a simple conundrum: can you really tell a Thomas … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Tess at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Review: The Taming of the Shrew – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Minna Gillett Associate Direction by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £8.00 ★★★★ The Taming of the Shrew holds a peculiar reappearing position amongst full-blown productions and grassroots community theatre. Odd, given the bleak finale and grinding boot of submission this play entrenches itself. It’s a tale in which the titular ‘shrew’, … Continue reading Review: The Taming of the Shrew – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Simple Machines at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Scenography and Composition by Wannes Deneer Dramaturgy by Marie Peeters ★★★★ Here’s the not-so-subtle secret about putting on a show: it's expensive. So Belgian choreographer Ugo Dehaes, forced into a corner by paying their dancers a living and deserving wage as part of his company Kwaad Bloed, instead seeks to remove the human element from their future dance performances and instead do what … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Simple Machines at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Review: Manipulate 2024 – L’Amour du Risque and Envahisseurs (Invaders)
L’Amour du Risque Staging by Olivier Rannou Construction & Performed by Morien Nolot and Olivier Rannou ★★★★ The first in two shows at Manipulate that fringe into the dreaded realms of the ‘killer of creativity’, AI and robotics, Compagnie Bakelite’s L’Amour Du Risque reminds gleeful and invested audiences that perhaps, just now, it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be … Continue reading Review: Manipulate 2024 – L’Amour du Risque and Envahisseurs (Invaders)
Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Last Rites at The Studio, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/XD0nehnoH9w Created by Ramesh Meyyappan and George Mann Directed by George Mann Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ There’s something inherently beautiful, if distant, in appreciating how other cultures perform someone’s final passing from this world to the next. One of the most agonising times of our lives, the loss of a parent, is a moment often so … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Last Rites at The Studio, Edinburgh