Written by Noël Coward Adapted for the Stage by Emma Rice Original Music Composed by Stu Barker Directed by Elizabeth Newman ★★★★ We’ve all done it, fallen in love with a perfect stranger across a Train carriage or on the last bus home. But for many, it’s a sliver of time blown into life together, compacting into … Continue reading Brief Encounter – Pitlochry Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/VFZ8dxsoFlQ Direction and Choreography by Matthew Bourne Composed by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ After a decade of slumber, now celebrating one hundred and fifty performances: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty has been weaving an intense sense of prestige and grace throughout theatres. The Brothers Grimm’s tale of dark fairies, thorns and eternal slumbers has been transformed into a … Continue reading Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – Festival Theatre
Written by CMF Wood Directed by Ross Hope ★★★ Love’s a bitch, isn’t it? Especially for those who sought connection during the onset of the Pandemic, where isolation crept into more homes than ever. It was a time of tremendous frustrations and loneliness – for those unable to see family, and loved ones and conduct … Continue reading frisson (in a bar) – Leith Arches
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
https://youtu.be/KV4dYyQ4tOI Written by Emily Brontë Adapted and Directed by Emma Rice ★★★★ A young boy abandoned on the Liverpool docks, his skin a different shade than those around him. A boy beaten and abused by his new brother, adored by his new father and will change the life of his new sister – and it … Continue reading Wuthering Heights – King’s Theatre
Book by Chris D'Arienzo Directed and Choreographed by Nick Winston Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ethan Popp ★★★ Time to dig out the Jukebox list: Lovers? Check. Back catalogue of a specified genre's finest? Check. Business Tycoon seeking to crush dreams? Ja. A flamboyantly fabulous narrator? You bet your ass. But is Rock of Ages more than that? … Continue reading Rock of Ages – Edinburgh Playhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOInHcgmKus Directed by Joe Wright Written by Edmond Rostand Adapted by Erica Schmidt ★★★★ Unconditional love - a bounty of limitless possibilities: of pain and euphoria. There’s no wonder why it, and its hideous sibling unrequited love, are the rhyme & reason of many a poet and performer. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac underpins the values of … Continue reading Cyrano – Universal Pictures
https://youtu.be/BcS1Z1Uh4-s Directed by Stuart Maunder Conducted by Derek Clark and Jonathon Cole-Swinard ★★★★ With tremendous beliefs comes temptation, and when one of two happy-go-lucky Gondoliers is revealed to be the rightful inheritor of a distant kingdom, their Republican ideals are put to the test. Not for greed or glory, but to revolutionise the archaic rule … Continue reading The Gondoliers – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/HYcx9lFa3jE Directed by Jeanne Pansard-Besson Music Director & Piano by Fiona MacSherry ★★★★ Stripped back, raw and accessible, Scottish Opera returns with a Highlights season after a two-year gap. This Autumn outing tour across multiple Scottish locations feels like a return to the roots of the industry, playing smaller venues and cutting to the heart … Continue reading Scottish Opera: Highlights – Byre Theatre
Written by Alan Saunders Directed by Elisa Davison ★★★★ Love has no manners whatsoever: it's never around when you want it, and always hanging about when you need it to sod off. And for Lissa, a deaf woman struggling with the pressures of university, love is the last thing on her mind – yet, here … Continue reading FOW – Summerhall OnDemand
