Written by Sir Ian Rankin and Simon Reade Directed by Loveday Ingram Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £25.00 ★★★ It’s the end of the evening: the whisky, wine, and cheese. A time when the chatter is flowing, lips are loose, cigarette breaks are frequent, and games are played. Though, perhaps this host-imposed murder mystery … Continue reading Review: Rebus: A Game Called Malice – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/DGm9cOXuSjk Written by Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz Directed by Peter Lorenz Review by Dominic Corr Touring dates ★★★ Revisiting the history we thought we knew, or even one partially concealed brings together audiences from across oceans and generations and experiences in how familiar they can seem particularly with those in the past whose … Continue reading Review: Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid – The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
Written and Performed by Khawla Ibraheem Directed and Developed by Oliver Butler Review by Josie Rose Traverse Theatre: Tickets ★★★★★ There is perhaps nothing more destructive, heartbreaking, and ruinous than war. From the constant fear and anxiety experienced by its victims to the terrible external realities made starkly visible to all around, Khawla Ibraheem captures … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe – A Knock on the Roof
https://youtu.be/jW999P0EeGo Written by Maria MacDonell Performed with Leo MacNeill Review by Josie Rose The Scottish Storytelling Centre: Tickets ★★★★ Choosing one of the most loaded words as its title and central theme, ‘LIFE’ takes us on a journey. Yet, rather than being mere passive listeners to our protagonist Estelle’s gripping story, the audience can capture … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe – LIFE
Written by Morna Young, after Lewis Grassic Gibbon Co-conceived by Finn den Hertog and Morna Young Directed by Finn den Hertog, Music by Finn Anderson Review by Josie Rose Tickets from £10.00 ★★★★★ ‘Nothing endures but the land’. As audiences follow the seasons of Chris Guthrie’s life, change seems to be the only constant. In some … Continue reading Review: Sunset Song – Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Morna Young Directed by Finn den Hertog Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★ At the risk of conjuring a Prelim exam question: just what is it that secures Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song as one of the most important contemporary pieces of Scottish literature? But for any who have read the original piece or audiences leaving the Dundee Rep this evening, … Continue reading Review: Sunset Song, Dundee
Written by Rona Munro Directed by Orla O’Loughlin Tickets from £27.50 ★★★ While the bonfire of masculine history chars pages of Scotland’s heritage - it is the stories of women that can burn brightest. Someone just has to tell them first. Despite the balancing act of regal storytelling, hidden and repressed queer history, and a … Continue reading Review: James V: Katherine – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written by Jennie Gilbertson and Aline Gordon Directed by Jennie Gilbertson Scotland/1933/56mins ★★★★ A cash grab, at worst propaganda, nostalgia and the "good old times" frequently find themselves utilised for ill will in contemporary cinema. But the preservation of film, particularly silent-era pieces outside of Hollywood, has a more nuanced and vital place in cinematic lineage. … Continue reading Review: The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric, Hippodrome Silent Film Festival 2024
The Playwrights - Jim Brown, Carolyn Lincoln, John Lamb, Brian Lincoln, Hilary Spiers, Elaine Campbell, and Rhona McAdam Directed by Liz Hare Tickets £10 - email: jamesellison@blueyonder.co.uk. ★★★★ There’s less of a grim, grinning, ghoulish haunt to this evening’s event than it first appears as the residents of Leith, living and deceased, come together to pry … Continue reading Ghosts of North Leith – North Leith Parish Church
Written by Ann Marie Di Mambro Directed by Ken Alexander ★★★★ There’s something majestical to old Italian confectionary stores in Scotland, specifically Glasgow. Ribboned with faux-gold and clean white tiles - serving up ice cream, pokes o' chips, sweets and cigarettes, the bellows of the family matriarch behind the ribboned doorway suggest an intense familial … Continue reading Tally’s Blood – Perth Theatre
