https://youtu.be/UJauIdT61ds Original Choreography & Direction for Pas de Dieux by Gene Kelly Additional Choreography & Scenario by Christopher Hampson CBE Artistic Collaboration by Patricia Ward Kelly Review by Dominic Corr Scottish Ballet ★★★★★ No matter hwo often some may think them separate siblings, cinema cannot keep but slipping a side-step into the space of it’s … Continue reading Review: Starstruck – The Theatre Royal, Glasgow
The Manipulate Festival, Scotland's international festival of animation, film, movement, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 17th season. This year's festival will run from February 1st - 11th across multiple physical and online venues. The full programme can be found here. Next week, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate Festival 2024
The Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh's international festival of animation film, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 16th season. This year's festival will run from February 2nd - 12th across multiple physical and online venues in and around Edinburgh. In two weeks’ time, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most extensive international … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate 2023
https://youtu.be/ojpYIEogAuE Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed Directed by Jonathan Church ★★★★★ The studio era, a Golden time for Hollywood’s finest performers and a haven of films which continue to stand the test of time, an era long soaked in nostalgia, for better or worse, and … Continue reading Singin’ In The Rain – Festival Theatre
Book By Bob Martin and Don McKellar Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison Directed by Jo Heinemeier ★★★ A quiet evening with brandy and our favourite record – idyllic, no? Why, for this Man in the Chair, that’s the regular course of an evening spent listening to his favourite musical – perhaps … Continue reading The Drowsy Chaperone – Church Hill Theatre
Lucille Fay LeSueur started as a dancer for a variety of travelling shows, elevating her way to chorus girl, and would go by LeSueur until her time with MGM, where Joan Crawford would emerge as a prominent force on the Hollywood scene. One of the ‘symbols’ of the studio gals, with the likes of Judy Garland or Claudette Colbert, Crawford … Continue reading Spotlights & Spirits – A Retrospective on Joan Crawford
Directed by Andy Johnston Musical Direction by Andrew Thomson Dance Direction by Louise Williamson Once a year, chaos, music, dance, fabulous costumes, and those young at heart or young in years descend upon The King’s Theatre to light up the frosted evenings of the capital – and the Panto doesn’t even start until next month. … Continue reading Edinburgh Gang Show – King’s Theatre
https://youtu.be/EK1KI1pQXlY Written & Directed by Terry Johnson Based on the life of Jack Cardiff Entire artistry in its own right, the conduction of light by Jack Cardiff would define a method of cinematography which pervades the artform to this day. The Red Shoes, The African Queen and The Black Rose, there is scarcely a shred of celluloid which at … Continue reading Prism – King’s Theatre
