Published: May 24th, 2013 Samuel Beckett is back in the house, down in Traverse One with the return of the Gare St Lazare Players and their thorough, particular adaptation of First Love, a short story written in 1948 but not published until 1971.
Continue reading: Review – First Love
Published: May 23rd, 2013 A strong and straightforward telling of the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth the first of England, rises out of Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.
Continue reading: Review – Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Published: May 21st, 2013 The upper lips are stiff and heroically pencil-moustached in Patrick Barlow’s rip-roaring, four-actor version of The 39 Steps, which is at the King’s Theatre all week to Saturday.
Continue reading: Review – The 39 Steps
Published: May 18th, 2013 The mince, tatties and pitch-black peat baths are all in order for the St Serf’s Players new production of Tony Roper’s great hit, The Steamie, up at the St Serf’s Church Halls in Goldenacre until Saturday.
Continue reading: Review – The Steamie
Published: May 18th, 2013 Not the amazing dancing bear, but a murdering bear. Or so we are led to believe. A kind of Winnie the Poohdunnit with claws.
Continue reading: Review – The Bear
Published: May 17th, 2013 Nuevo Tango came to the Queen’s Hall last night, replacing the cold of a May spring night in Edinburgh with the warmth of Latin America thanks to another great performance from Mr McFall’s Chamber.
Continue reading: Review – Maria de Buenos Aries
Published: May 16th, 2013 Sam Wheat has it all – a great job, a great home and most of all, a great woman. Then he loses it all, killed in an apparently random street mugging. He doesn’t move on to the next world, though, because he has unfinished business – protecting love Molly from the men responsible for his death. Unable to communicate with her, psychic Oda Mae Brown is his only hope …
Continue reading: Review – Ghost: The Musical
Published: May 11th, 2013 The record books might not have been bothered at the Village Pub Theatre’s twitter special when only 30 or so of the possible 170 play-in-a-tweets were performed, but the ones which were staged certainly left the audience wanting more.
Continue reading: Review – Village Pub Theatre Twitter Special
Published: May 9th, 2013 A terrorist attack while on a business trip to Mumbai in 2008 forced Roger Hunt to spend 40 hours in his hotel bedroom, while the attackers roamed the building killing all Westerners they found. Irene Brown reviews the play based on true events on Æ
Continue reading: Review – Be Silent or Be Killed
Published: May 9th, 2013 The trills come thick and fast in the opening act of La Traviata, Verdi’s intimate take on the tale of consumptive courtesan Violetta and her doomed love for the naive Alfredo, which is at the King’s theatre to Saturday.
Continue reading: Review – La Traviata
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