Written by Liam Moffat Directed by Gareth Nicholls Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ For anyone who has spent any portion of their day wading through discarded chew toys, endless strands of hair, or endured walks in the chucking rain and cleared up enough cat vomit than you thought a creature that size could produce - they’ll … Continue reading Review: Jack – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/d4IQuwxRLm0 Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Joanna Bowman Review by Anna Burnside Tickets from £15.50 ★★★★ On a minimal set, a row of mottled legs end in well-used feet in comfortable sandals. Three women of bus pass-carrying age in mismatched chairs are drinking tea and discussing the things that absorb neighbours - the state of the … Continue reading Review: Escaped Alone – The Tron Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/T8GQUmNvdgA Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle Music and Lyrics by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Calendar Girls The Musical somehow still feels like a breath of fresh air in 2024, over twenty years since the real-life women of the Women’s Institute posed for their calendar in aid of charity. The Bill Kenwright LTD … Continue reading Review: Calendar Girls The Musical – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by David Greig Directed by Wils Wilson Tickets from £16.00 ★★ Nostalgia is a notoriously dangerous drug: addictive, encompassing, distracting, but oh-so nourishing. It clouds judgements and fractures our ability to move from the past and adapt - entirely apparent in David Greig’s new play Two Sisters, in a co-production with Malmö Stadsteater and the Royal Lyceum, … Continue reading Review: Two Sisters – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Directed by Phee Simpson Musical Direction by Emily Phillips Tickets from £11.oo ★★★★ It would seem as though 1950s New York is too tantalising a decade for Edinburgh University’s theatre scene: stepping into the same realm as last year’s Shakespeare Company’s production of Julius Ceasar, Phee Simpson’s … Continue reading Review: Guys and Dolls: The Musical – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams Directed by Nikolai Foster Tickets from £20.00 ★★★★ For those who thought the Edinburgh Playhouse’s fascination with the colour green had left with the departing for the smash-hit Wicked, … Continue reading Review: The Wizard of Oz – The Playhouse, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/hHL0cTv_kus Music by Jonathan Dove Libretto by Charles Hart based on an original scenario by Jurgen R. Weber Conducted by David Parry Directed by Stephen Barlow Tickets from £22.50 ★★★★ Don’t tell the Nixon (in China) fans, but the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, bushes Red for the UK premiere of Jonathan Dove’s rambunctious farce Marx in London! Which runs at the venue … Continue reading Review: Scottish Opera – Marx in London! at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/c_SyDYUZmow Directed by Sean Mathias Produced by Bill Kenwright, David Gilbery and Naomi George UK/2023/117mins Hamlet will be available on DVD, Blu-ray & Digital Download from 8th April ★★★★ Theatre sustained, perhaps, the worst damage of the art and entertainment mediums throughout the sustained days of COVID lockdowns. Production tours were cut short, their rehearsal spaces restricted, funding decimated, and their physical venues … Continue reading Review: Hamlet (2024)
Direction by Bex Anson MHz Movement Artists - Philip Alexander McDonald, Rita Hu, and Suzi Cunningham ★★★★ Easily earning itself the most influentially abstract of the Manipulate Festival 2024 pieces, Bex Anson MHz’s highly visual expressive dance performance Ruins (performed by Suzi Cunningham, Rita Hu, and Philip Alexander McDonald) commands an entire spectrum of life. Three beings, the last humans on Earth, become … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ruins at The Studio, Edinburgh
Direction by Alex Bird Original Direction by Ross MacKay and Arran Howie Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Under the gaze of the one-eyed deity, the world below is changing. A golden age of peace and prosperity - infected with avarice, hatred, and endless aggression. Winter has failed to ebb, and the sun hangs low in the sky, … Continue reading Review: Manipulate Festival 2024 – Ragnarok at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
