Encore, encore. Come one and all for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s greatest and most successful as we Have a Gander at some of the many returning shows for 2023. Some have been staples of the Fringe for years; others became tremendous successes only last year. But there’s one thing they all share – they’re back, … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023: Returning Shows
Ah yes, the other side of the coin. The misery to the laughter. The performance to the wit. The theatrical underbelly of the Festival Fringe to that of its Comedic alter-ego and larger sibling. All the world's a stage, and we are merely the audience. Something like that, yeah? There’s no question that the comedy … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023: Theatre
https://youtu.be/RvVgXESA0Xo Adapted for the Stage by Isobel McArthur with Michael John McCarthy Directed by Isobel McArthur and Gareth Nicholls ★★★★★ Well, she’s done it again. In an emergence of their auteurship as one of Scotland’s most talented, and frankly valuable, theatre writers, Isobel McArthur, with co-adapter and composer Michael John McCarthy, retells another famous tale … Continue reading Kidnapped – Royal Lyceum Theatre
https://youtu.be/530somdCRDw Written by Isobel McArthur, after Jane Austen Directed by Isobel McArthur and Simon Harvey ★★★★★ It takes vision to reinvigorate a text, particularly a homogenous genre-defining work of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Ignore every preconception you may have about the Romantic Drama of Austen’s literary classic and enable Isobel McArthur to pulverise those ideas … Continue reading Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort of) – Royal Lyceum Theatre
Written by Lynda Radley Directed by Isobel McArthur ★★★★ It’s often remarked that there is nothing like childbirth, not the physical stresses and pain, nor the cacophony of fears, joy, terror, and love in the creation of a relationship between mother and their new “bean”. Continuing to produce the highest-quality audio dramas, even as live … Continue reading The Mother Load – The Royal Lyceum
Written by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen Directed by Paul Brotherston Ignore everything you may have thought you knew about Jane Austen’s literary classic Pride & Prejudice; Isobel McArthur is about to change your entire perception. It takes a vision to reinvigorate a text, especially one with as countless adaptations, stiffness and dust that Pride & Prejudice conjure … Continue reading Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) – Royal Lyceum Theatre
