Written by Cullen and Sasha Wilson Direction and Dramaturgy by Hannah Hauer-King ★★★★ Roguish, wily, foxy, and completely out of his depth - entirely surrounded by bigots, with a hideously xenophobic home secretory, and possessing a remarkably sentient mop of hair… Oh, not that Boris. But you’ve probably never even heard of this one. Though … Continue reading The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria – Pleasance Dome
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/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
https://youtu.be/5CS7KWnRU64 Written & Directed by Maciej Barczewski Poland/2020/91mins ★★★★ It is 1940. And the first transports to the newly constructed concentration camp Auschwitz have arrived. Reclaiming an inspirational account from the Holocaust is a neigh-on difficulty, and even those films which manage lift the tale into problematic avenues. And this is not to say there … Continue reading Champion of Auschwitz
https://youtu.be/5FdRKMQMj4o Directed by Vadim Perelman Screenplay adapted by Ilja Zofin Russia, Germany, Belarus/ 2020/ 127 mins ★★★ Treading the line of invention is a difficult option, and potentially dangerous when devising a Holocaust survival story. But in the end, director Vadim Perelman‘s Persian Lessons has little intention of maintaining authenticity throughout; instead, focusing on specific aspects which, tragically, … Continue reading Persian Lessons – Review
https://youtu.be/dyQx7H4fXh8 Opera created by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Revival Direction by Jonathan Cocker Leader of The Orchestra of Scottish Opera - Anthony Moffat Conducted by Stuart Stratford Puccini’s melodramatic masterpiece Tosca has it all; corruption, lust, heartbreak and the bureaucracy of history. Shifting the timeframe into the 20th century, there is still … Continue reading Tosca – The Festival Theatre
Written by Michelle Kholos Brooks Runs at Greenside Infirmary, August 5th - 24th (Not 11th or 18th), 18.35pm Fifteen women would carry out, what they consider, a job of notoriety and honour during World War II. With the risk of assassination peaking, they would dine on the foods of the Third Reich, no steak of … Continue reading Hitler’s Tasters – Greenside Infirmiry
Image Contribution:Dogstar Theatre Writer: Matthew Zajac Director: Ben Harrison War and all of its travesties will never be understood. From the British perspective – we were the heroes, they the villains. When presented with people quite literally in the bootstraps of the opposition many are unable to connect. The stories told by people leaving the … Continue reading The Tailor of Inverness @ The Brunton
