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New musical hits the the high notes* * Bold, earthy and playing heavily on its roots, John Ward’s brand spanking new musical, MacPherson’s Rant, received its world premier in an amateur production up at the Church Hill Theatre last night. The show takes the story of one James MacPherson, unjustly hanged in Banff for being a vagrant in 1700. His death was infamously hurried through when the magistrates thought a reprieve was on the way. October 20th, 2009 There was a real buzz about the Royal Lyceum tonight, as novelist Ian Rankin joined the theatre’s Artistic Director Mark Thomson on the stage for a pre-performance discussion of Justified Sinner. Thomson, of course, adapted James Hogg’s novel – indeed this production which he also directs is an updated version of the one he did when he was at the Brunton about ten years ago. Rankin was there by dint of his own fascination with the text. He’s written an introduction to a recent edition of the novel and is in the process of writing a film script from it. … Continue reading Sinning with Ian Rankin and Mark Thomson… * * * * Royal Lyceum Review by Thom Dibdin SCOTLAND’S darkest history is dragged into the light of the Lyceum stage in this new adaptation of James Hogg’s bitter, twisted and murderous Confessions of a Justified Sinner. This is a tale of religious fanaticism, of cleansing the world of sinners in the [...] * * * * Edinburgh King’s Theatre By Thom Dibdin PLUNGING deep into the dust of depression-era America, this touring adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel still succeeds in keeping its feet firmly in the modern world. It’s difficult to begin to comprehend the plight of the Okies – the Oklahoma farmers thrown off [...] * * * * Porno, snuff and pretentious art are the dark things which director Dominic Hill and writer Ursula Rani Sarma are conjuring with at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. The result is a production which works hard, goes into plenty of dark corners and succeeds in entertaining – shocking, even, on occasion – but which heaps so much on its own plate that it finds itself with just too many ends to tie up as it moves into its end game. |
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