Adapted by Dave Johns, from Ken Loachs' Film Directed by Mark Calvert Tickets: £20.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ £350 million a week for the NHS. There were no parties in Downing St. It's no worse than the flu. Forty new hospitals. No red tape: an oven-ready deal. Fifty rebuilt schools. These things are fictional. I, Daniel … Continue reading I, Daniel Blake – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Alice Clark Directed by Laila Noble ★★★★ Between the recently touring King and I in Edinburgh and now Alice Clark’s Ship Rats docking in Oran Mor as the newest part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season (and the Traverse Theare’s Autumn PPP opening), the historical relationships of the West and East couldn’t be … Continue reading Ship Rats – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint
https://youtu.be/PkytxR8Fc_c Performed by Melissa McGlensey ★★★★★ For those familiar with the anxieties of the Trump White House years, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Press secretary, infamous for her disdain of the mainstream press, proved to be an unexpected source of entertainment for those interested in US politics. Her directly indirect answers to the simplest of questions … Continue reading The Briefing with Melissa McGlensey – Assembly Roxy
Written by Dave Gerow Directed by Ken Alexander ★★★ Sam is just looking for a decent way to get by. Something where he can do his time and maybe work his way up the ladder for something a little bit better. And when graduate boyfriend Brandon, currently working as a recruitment manager at his father’s … Continue reading Break My Windows – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/R2Iic1JKamU Written by Uma Nada-Rajah Directed by Debbie Hannan ★★★ The royal vizier, the second-in-command, the confidant; if there is one thing to know about politics - someone else is always pulling the string. The white cliffs of Dover, is there a finer representation of these Isle's welcoming borders? Well, for some, the welcoming part … Continue reading Exodus – Traverse Theatre
Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Ewan Downie ★★★★ All good things must pass, as fields wilt and rivers dry, as teeth decay and fledglings fly. So to, Caesar must rule no more. Company of Wolves' already well-received production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar meets its end (for now) in the consecrated corridors of Summerhall – a fitting … Continue reading Julius Caesar – Summerhall
Written by Caroline Bird Directed by Wils Wilson ★★★ The eve of Local Council Elections in the UK seems a rather fitting time for the opening of Caroline Bird’s semi-biography of revolutionary activist and parliamentary political shaker-upper Ellen Wilkinson at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. And though Red Ellen, Labour MP who staunchly opposed the party's luke-warm indifference … Continue reading Red Ellen – Royal Lyceum Theatre
Written by Rob Drummond Directed by Finn Den Hertog ★★★ Wilson, Prescott, Mandelson, Farage, Miliband, Farage (again), Corbyn - there’s not a lot that these men share – outside of their target practice for dairy products. Tory MP Arthur and PHD graduate Owen find themselves in restorative justice, a session designed to resolve a meaningful … Continue reading Milkshake – Play, Pie & Pint
https://youtu.be/uxZ1QXpqBPw Directed by Finn Dern Hertog Written by Kieran Hurley (After Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People) ★★★★ Gentrifying urban spaces from lower-income areas is a wearying, complex and often a begrudging transformative aspect of contemporary Scotland. With various communities underfunded, underpopulated and a shadow of their once-proud market or port days, incoming businesses … Continue reading The Enemy – King’s Theatre
https://youtu.be/oL3IC6Q35VM Book, Song & Lyrics by Willy Russel Directed by Bob Tomson & Bill Kenwright ★★★★ Legendary - Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, beloved across the country, draws the ancient philosophical narrative of nurture versus nature into the contemporary world. Downtrodden and faced with no alternative, Mrs Johnstone is scarcely able to feed her existing children … Continue reading Blood Brothers – Edinburgh Playhouse
