Monday, December 19, 2016
Safely playing for every member of the family, Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton’s Cinderella for Imagine Theatre, the new panto producers for
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Clever, intriguing and thoroughly engaging for its target audience of pre-school toddlers, Too Many Penguins? returns in a form that is even better than before.
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Creative Scotland faces a cut of up to £500,000 in the draft Scottish Budget for 2017/18 announced in Holyrood yesterday. However the
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Misogynistic words used by US president-elect Donald Trump and caught on a mic will be used in a new piece of verbatim
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMBright, clever and thoroughly engaging, Ed Robson’s updating of Snow White at Cumbernauld for a five-strong cast is a triumph of storytelling
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Inventively staged and performed with a lightness of touch from actor-puppeteer Amy McGregor, Moon Dog and the Christmas Star weaves a fascinating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMJonathan Stone doesn’t make it easy on himself with Mother McGoose, his first panto for the Alhambra after moving down the road
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Tuneful, funny and an utterly traditional pantomime, EPT’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears comes out with all guns blazing and satisfies completely.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PMOld-fashioned trickery and a well-known story combine with humour in A (sort of) Christmas Carol Magic Show at the Spiegeltent in Edinburgh – a seasonal offering that does not always gel b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMCrackling with colour and wit, but preying on the darkest parental fears, Scottish Ballet’s revival of Christopher Hampson’s Hansel and Gretel is tighter than it ever
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The Google map indicates the scale of the growing trend in relaxed performances – which seek to create non-judgmental environments for people with autism, dementia, Tourette’s and learni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe celebrated trio of Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Andy Gray are front and centre in this year’s King’s Theatre pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk – a production that is low on storyl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe sartorially elegant magic double act of Morgan and West deploy their amiably bumbling, Victorian schtick on Dickens. A (sort of) Christmas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMMagic, mayhem and plenty of belief run right to the core of the Theatre Royal’s spectacular Cinderella. At first glance this show
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Glasgow-based Scottish Youth Theatre is creating a national ensemble as part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations. Entry to the ensemble will be by
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Black Beauty, the Traverse’s show for all ages this Christmas, co-produced with Red Bridge, is a million miles from a straight adaptation of the children’s classic but provides more than…
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Schools winners will inspire programme cover: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has expanded its annual schools poster competition so that three winning designs will be used to inspire three cov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAnna Sewell’s much-loved novel gets a brisk trot around the paddock in Andy Manley, Andy Cannon and Shona Reppe’s new take on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMWonderful: While not specifically Christmassy, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland at Edinburgh's Lyceum proves an ideal fit for the festive season. Hugely colourful, funny, and fascinating, …
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Loud, brash and somewhat abrasive, Qdos’s Jack and the Beanstalk gets a slick Edinburgh veneer for the King’s ruling panto triumvirate of dame Allan Stewart (Dame
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMAnthony Neilson’s production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins with the Liddell family captured in the flash of a camera, before sending
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How can we resist you? The winner takes it all at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as the Mamma Mia! tour arrives for an extended run over the festive season.
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Energetic: Boisterous enjoyment and foot-tapping music compensate for outdated attitudes in Underbelly’s revival of Five Guys Named Moe, at the Spiegeltent in Edinburgh's Festival Square u…
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Bereft of any real plot, but big on concept, Clarke Peters’ popular musical Five Guys Named Moe contains enough attitude and colourful
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMJoe Douglas’ production of Stuart Paterson’s adaptation of George’s Marvellous Medicine is as gleefully malevolent as Roald Dahl’s original. On the surface it’s …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMAttentive to the smallest details, director Julie Ellen gives Johnny McKnight’s Weans in The Wood a brave and audacious reading in her
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Bright but slightly down-tempo, Mark Cox’s Aladdin for the Brunton knows its local geography and has a great driving force in Keith
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMBig on interaction and led with energy and real command of his art by Ian ‘Sheepie’ Smith as Smee, John F Spillers’ updating of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMVicious, enthralling, politically charged and emotionally engaging, Rambert’s revival of Ghost Dances, is still powerful, 35 years after it was created.
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Elaine C Smith has a somewhat redoubtable reputation, one she doesn’t do anything to dispel in her stand-up comedy gigs, touring Scotland
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Nightmarish: Scary and well-thought out, Sophie Good's adaptation of the short Victorian horror story Green Tea finds suitable resonances in contemporary Edinburgh.
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