Written and Performed by Al Seed Dramaturg by Niloo-Far Khan ★★★★ A place of worship. A place of war. How often they seem to be the same. Guarded, or sullied, by the presence of a small white statue of a woman, presumably a Goddess or religious figure of sorts, is the only element of the … Continue reading Plinth – Dundee Rep
Written by Mike Bartlett Directed by Conor O'Cuinn Tickets from £6.00 ★★★★ Blossoming, in time, Mike Bartlett’s Albion magnifies grief in this state-of-the-nation piece that translates the death of a son into the death of a nation. A nuanced piece, one tricky to capture the shades and tones of each character’s misery and displaced fears of the … Continue reading Albion – Bedlam Theatre
https://youtu.be/svAU15UI6t0 Produced by Maas Theater ★★★★ Two world rulers engaged in a series of childish, fruitless vanity projects struggle to find any sense of common ground as they allow their petulance to get in the way as they grow more aggressive in their tactics to outdo one another. How unrealistic… Producers of dance and theatre, … Continue reading BullyBully – Traverse Theatre
Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Ross Hope ★★★★ Spectres linger in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, which received a strong reception from audiences at the Assembly Roxy last week. Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group utilise their usual pedigree to translate a tricky play with competence and intellect. Opening, in quite the contrary way to a performance so … Continue reading Copenhagen – Assembly Roxy
Written by David Haig Directed by Hannah Bradley Croall ★★★★ 72 hours to change the course of history. And a name which means nothing to many, but everything to all of us in respects, is Dalkeith-born meteorologist Dr James Stagg is tasked with an impossible burden of weight. The Allied invasion of France is a … Continue reading Pressure – Hill Street Theatre
https://youtu.be/wGcvwDs4XMw Written by Nicola McCartney and Dritan Kastrati Directed by Neil Bettles ★★★★ We hear about it; those fleeing war-torn nations across channels and open bodies of water. We hear the twisted propaganda regarding small boats, dinghies and rafts. We sometimes even see the people or their bodies washing up on our shores. But we … Continue reading How Not To Drown – Traverse Theatre
Produced by Agruación Señor Serrano Created by Álex Serrano, Pau Palacios and Ferran Dorda ★★★ With the sixteenth edition of Edinburgh’s stupendously inventive, diverse and creative visual storytelling festival MANIPULATE underway, Capital Theatre’s The Studio offers a fond welcome return to the Barcelona-based theatre company Señor Serrano, whose previous 2017 MANIPULATE piece A House In Asia became … Continue reading Birdie – MANIPULATE 2023
https://youtu.be/s8AMy2Oh-7I Written by Piros Zánkay Story by Gábor Hellebrandt and Péter Bergendy Directed by Péter Bergendy 2020/115mins/Hungary ★★★ The dead outnumber the living. Surviving the Great War, Tomás finds himself amidst the deceased in an open grave following an explosion which should have claimed him. Mistaken for dead, it is only after the observations of … Continue reading Post Mortem – Review
https://youtu.be/hQC7-ie1_VY Written by Jack Nurse & Robbie Gordon Directed by Jack Nurse ★★★★ To paraphrase the right honourable MP Mhairi Black: there’s an ‘F’ word that the country is too fearful to speak. A word we need to vocalise, and a word Wonder Fools encourages audiences to use. A word which thousands died in their … Continue reading 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War – The Brunton Theatre
https://youtu.be/FPP_304khFo Written & Directed by Yoav Paz & Doron Paz Germany & Israel/2021/109mins ★★ s millions celebrated the end of World War II, there’s a habit of conjuring this immediate image of the defeat of Hitler as a drawn curtain. In reality, for thousands of survivors of the Holocaust, returning Jewish communities found that, despite … Continue reading Plan A – Review
