Friday, August 14, 2015
Lyceum celebrates 50 years with preview ticket giveaway:
Tickets for the previews of the Royal Lyceum's 50th anniversay production of Waiting for Godot go on sale on Monday morning, when th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:25AM✭✭✭✩✩ Careful ensemble piece:
There are no real surprises or any great excitement to be had in Bold Girls at theSpace on the Mile, but there are some so…
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Young critics scheme review:
Funny, fast and exciting, Shakespeare in the Garden: Brave Macbeth is an excellent example of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:47AM✭✭✭✭✭ Hilarious and very exciting
Junior review by Cora Dibdin:
This show had the real Julia Donaldson. She brought her husband Malcolm and sister Mar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AM✭✭✭✭✩ Educational and enchanting:
The student run Edinburgh University Theatre Company deliver an intriguing insight into the life of Ada Lovelace, but …
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Young critics scheme review
Imaginative, amusing and jam packed with helpful tips, Harry Venning’s workshop Release Your Inn…
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Young critics scheme review:
Hilariously silly yet educational, Captivate Theatre’s production of Shakespeare in the Garden - B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:42AMThursday, August 13, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ House of Fun
Young critics scheme review:
Captivate Theatre deliver a smart, energetic youth amateur production Our House, performed in Brough…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:48PM✭✭✭✭✩ Very funny
Junior review by Cora Dibdin
The Last of the Dragons is set in a kingdom where there's a tradition that on a princess's 16th birthday…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:16PM✭✭✭✩✩ Very mad
Junior review by Cora Dibdin:
This was a play of Alice in Wonderland done by teenagers. I have read the book and I liked it. It was mad.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:46AM✭✭✭✭✩ Toe-tapping tunes:
Broadway melodies have broad appeal as one of Edinburgh's best-known amateur groups struts its stuff.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:56AM✭✭✭✭✩ Unsettling:
At 30 minutes long, The Rocking Horse Winner from Bracket Productions might only be a bitesized fringe show, but it definitely has som…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:13AM✭✭✭✩✩ Celebratory:
The Mercators are back at the Fringe this year with Austensibility; an engaging dramatised reading celebrating the life and works of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:22AM✭✭✭✩✩ Tricky:
Kevin McMahon entertains as a magician in his Quantum Magic at the Gilded Balloon, but ultimately there's an sense of deception that doesn…
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Young critics scheme review
A cheesy, child-friendly adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Captivate Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Gar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:51AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
✭✭✭✭✭ Great Big Grins:
Life-affirming and hugely funny, Cheshire Cats at Saughtonhall United Reformed Church is a rare treat indeed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:08AM✭✭✭✭✩ Swift & dynamic:
An energetic and effervescent force runs through Gin and Tonic Productions take on one of Shakespeare's most imaginative and…
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✭✭✭✭✭ Perfect madness:
Searching for perfection, the Bawsoot Theatre Company gets pretty close in its cleverly crafted production of The Raven.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48PMThe BBC’s substantial Edinburgh Fringe pop-up venue will have to find new premises next year under expansion plans for its current Potterrow
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Young critics scheme review
Witty middleclass middle-aged comedy, May I Have The Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell overanalyses what …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:49AM✭✭✭✩✩ Elementary but entertaining:
There is solid, well-crafted entertainment in The Edinburgh Makars’ production of The Game’s Afoot or Hol…
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Young critics scheme review
A humorous combination of clowning and multimedia magic makes The Outsider appeal to children and adults al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:35AM✭✭✭✩✩ Overcomplicated:
Skins and Hoods at the French Institute is an ambitious multimedia production whose most successful elements are those closest to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:12AM✭✭✭✭✩ Painfully poignant:
Emotionally charged, Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group's production of Death and a Maiden is poignant, gripping and full of pai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AM✭✭✩✩✩ Tragically complex:
Based on a Jacobean play written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621, the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group'…
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Junior Review by Cora Dibdin:
Fraxi is an ash tree and she is queen of the forest because she is very tall. Fraxi is played by a wom…
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✭✭✭✭✩ Immoral compass:
Foul-mouthed and funny, Willie and Sebastian is far removed from what might be expected of the established double act of Andy Gra…
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Young critics scheme review:
Fun and entertaining, Honk!, Anthony Drewe's modern adaptation of The Ugly Duckling performed as part of…
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There is an interesting perspective on discrimination and identity in Skins and Hoods at the French Institute.
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Lacking nothing in energy, Nell Gwyn: An Epilogue is nevertheless lacking in focus and fails to convince as a result.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PM✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling:
Not for the fainthearted, Comfort Slaves performed by Immersive Acting Movement deals with horrible issues that have become part of o…
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