Based on Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan Additional Lyrics by Lewis Eggeling Script by Fraser Grant and Rosalyn Harper Directed by Hunter King Tickets from £10.00 ★★★ In an age where the dying guttural roars of the past clamber onto their grip of the world, it’s only right to put faith into newer generations to … Continue reading Review: Biolanthe – Summerhall, Edinburgh
Written by Stephen Christopher & Graeme Smith Directed by Jordan Blackwood Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ For all the hullabaloo that transcends between theatre and football as arguments erupt over funding and political ‘preferential treatment’ - each receives in the eyes of the other; the pair find themselves on the same side. Whether it’s … Continue reading Review: The Scaff – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Directed by Philip Franks Written by Torben Betts Review by Annie Aslett Tickets from £19.00 ★★★ Murder In The Dark, a new horror play by Torben Betts, is winging its way around the UK and arrived at Glasgow’s Pavillion Theatre this week. The UK tour of Danny Robins’ smash hit 2:22: A Ghost Story will have whetted audience appetites for scares - how … Continue reading Review: A Murder in the Dark – The Pavilion, Glasgow
Created and Performed by Sarah Hopfinger Music and Sound Design by Alicia Jane Turner ★★★★ What do you do when you can’t trust the very body that houses you? When you lose faith in the form we present and the biological machine which gets us from A to B, how do you reclaim that autonomy … Continue reading Review: Pain & I – Summerhall, Edinburgh
Directed by Abigail Halperin Musical Direction by Eric Rogers Tickets from £10.00 ★★★★ Fancy a trip to Arendelle? Or maybe the sun-drenched coastlines of Ancient Greece? What about the dark depths of the Woods? Maybe - just maybe - audiences are looking to join in on that long journey down the tracks to Hades… But … Continue reading Review: All Who Wander – Magnusson Centre, Edinburgh
Written by Taylor Dyson & Calum Kelly Directed by Beth Morton Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ If you were to think of that one pal you haven’t spoken to in a while (but really should of), it doesn’t take long for a name to crop up - does it? The next ‘serving’ from the Play, Pie, and … Continue reading Review: Pushin’ Thirty – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Mark Ravenhill Directed by Conor O' Cuinn Assistant Direction by Gemima Iseka-Bekano Musical Direction by Falk Meier Intimacy Direction by Rebecca Mahar Tickets from £6.00 ★★★★ Purses of all sorts command the world. Whether it’s coin or sex: London in the 18th century or a swanky drug-fuelled orgy of the 21st. The exuberant … Continue reading Review: Mother Clap’s Molly House – Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
Written and Directed by Emma Rice Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ As much a gory tale marred with crimson, the folktale Blue Beard casts an eccentric shade over the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, until March 30th as a part of its UK tour. Crammed with music, movement, and theatrical enchantment from the vaudeville to the magical. An age-old tale of a man, … Continue reading Review: Blue Beard – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Imogen Stirling Directed by Eve Nicol Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ As Imogen Stirling’s Starving puts it, many names exist as poorly edited Wikipedia entries: one of them is the campaigner for Scottish Independence, activist and artist Wendy Wood, who undertook (at just shy of 80) a hunger strike in the cause of Scottish Home Rule. As … Continue reading Review: Starving – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields Directed by Adam Meggido Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ After ten years with multiple tours and a schtick which, when seen once, reveals the biggest gags of the show, one would expect that the gig becomes a touch stale for repeat viewers. But staggeringly, Mischief Comedy’s second eldest child, Peter Pan … Continue reading Review: Peter Pan Goes Wrong – Edinburgh Playhouse
