https://youtu.be/mpvd4WMHgF0 Vedere Te (1322) by Noemi Piva (Italy)Q-Fforia by Oran Longmuir (Scotland) & Angharad Jones (Wales)Meohadim by Jacob Gomez (Spain)I Can See Us by Daniel Lukehurst (England) Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★ As far as popular culture is concerned, contemporary dance struggles to detach itself from the likes of Maddie Ziegler and Sia; derelict spaces filled with grey mist … Continue reading Review: Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform – The Studio, Edinburgh
Choreography from Cayetano Soto, Sophie Laplane, Peter Darrell, and Madeline Squire Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £14.50 ★★★★★ In his welcome in tonight’s programme, Artistic Director Christopher Hampson sums up Scottish Ballet’s repertoire as “bold new work, charged contemporary and iconic classical”. For two nights only, Scottish Ballet is at The Beacon in Greenock, … Continue reading Review: Scottish Ballet at The Beacon – Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
Created by Tina Landau Creative Direction by Dominic Lewis and Felicity Halfpenny Musical Direction by Louisa Everett Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £16.00 ★★★★ If the question “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” means anything to you, you’ll be buzzing/horrified to find out that The SpongeBob Musical is a thing now! Brought … Continue reading Review: Spongebob The Musical – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by J B Priestley Directed by Martin Foreman Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ Opening to an Edwardian drawing room, it is hard to expect anything else from a J.B. Priestley ‘Time Play’. Scorched into imaginations thanks to English GCSE, the deceptive ease of his nostalgic sensationalism is widely acknowledged. And yet, … Continue reading Review: Dangerous Corner – The Assemby Roxy, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/vlAjJE8mqqw Cabinet of Miracles - The Naive Theatre Liberec, Czech Republic ★★★★ Univers - Engruna Teatre, Catalonia ★★★★ AN-Ki - Cia. Ortiga, Catalonia ★★★★★ Imaginate Tickets and Programme It’s said the world was made in seven days; The Naive Theatre Liberec did it in forty-five minutes. Contemporary alchemy, Cabinet of Miracles already sets this year’s … Continue reading Review: Imaginate Round Up – The Cabinet of Miracles, Univers, and An-Ki
Music and Lyrics by The Sherman Brothers Stage Adaptation by Jeremy Sams Directed by Thom Southerland Tickets from £29.00 ★★★★ Sixty years ago, writer Ian Fleming created a story of mad-cap inventions, spies, and abducted children, forced to be saved by a decidedly British chap and his love interest with a pun-inspired name. And yes, … Continue reading Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – The Edinburgh Playhouse
https://youtu.be/Tj0NtV3nVY0?list=PLOCmLnR_yij2SbasbRP1cF2GspEetRKxh The Flock - Concept and Direction by Roser Lopez Espinosa Moving Cloud - Choreography by Sofia Nappi Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets ★★★★ Ask most of us what special gift we could wish for, and a significant portion would express our innate desire to fly. A celebration of two company's roots in Scottish culture and … Continue reading Review: The Flock and Moving Cloud – Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee Rep
Directed by Jamie Lloyd Written by William Shakespeare Review by Annie Aslett Tickets ★★★ The long-awaited curtain (actually an enormous metal gate) is finally up on Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Duke of York Theatre. Quoted in the show’s programme, Lloyd remarks on his evolution as a director and an emerging new philosophy for the Jamie Lloyd Company: he seeks … Continue reading Review: Romeo & Juliet – The Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Directed by Florence Carr Jones Review by Marina Funcasta Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets ★★★★ Walking into White Space, it was impossible not to notice the sea of heads surrounding ‘It’s A Sheet Play’s’ only set piece - a blow-up mattress. For a play which concerns itself with individual conceptions of intimacy and closeness, it’s safe … Continue reading Review: It’s a Sheet Show – White Space, Edinburgh
Written by Philip Ridley Directed by Abbye Eve Tickets: £15.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ When the programme arrives with a party bag, audiences know they’re in for an experience. But no matter what avenue one may expect Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe to wander down – they're likely wrong. What initially seems to be a toxically churned production on ageing … Continue reading Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
