Thursday, November 24, 2016
Nightmarish: Scary and well-thought out, Sophie Good's adaptation of the short Victorian horror story Green Tea finds suitable resonances in contemporary Edinburgh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMWhile UK theatres spend their Christmas season giving their audiences villains to boo, heroes to cheer and comedians to laugh at, theatres
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSplit decision: Splendidly sung and with some excellent dancing, this Edinburgh production of Jekyll & Hyde – The Musical is a little deficient in both thrills and laughs.
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Unbelievable: Part thriller, part romantic comedy, part Sarah Harding casting error, Ghost: the Musical, now in Edinburgh as part of its ongoing tour, does just about everything expected of …
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Scottish Ballet is to stage a full season dedicated entirely to digital work, in what it believes is a first for a ballet company. It
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Accomplished and brash ballroom dancing makes the touring Keep Dancing entertaining enough. Publicity for the show concentrates on its (unofficial) links with Strictly Come Dancing, with th…
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Intense and mannered, Leitheatre’s production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Festival Theatre Studio strikes a chord with contemporary events.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:05AMHuman: Not only is Shakespeare, His Wife, and the Dog a treat for all theatre aficionados, it is also clever, emotional and wonderfully acted.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
What the Dickens? The adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ most famous works, A Tale of Two Cities, at Edinburgh's King’s Theatre this week as part of a national tour, has more than a f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMJumpy: Haunting raw material and a fairly straightforward telling from Theatre Paradok give a good account of this pair of classic Victorian ghost stories, at the Banshee Labyrinth until Thu…
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Two Cities Community Tale:
The big Touring Consortium Theatre Company production of A Tale of Two Cities opens at the King's Theatre this week, but unlike most shows coming into the theatre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:25PMA 1,400-seat theatre in Leith – which has been dark for almost 30 years – has been given a new lifeline thanks to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMThe Traverse Theatre is preparing for its annual Hothouse event, promoting four work-in-progress performances from Edinburgh-based companies, running this week from Tuesday 8 to Friday 11 No…
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Well performed: Strong performances and notably high production values distinguish Grain In The Blood at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, but an initially chilling ambience is not sustained.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:56AMThursday, November 3, 2016
Cheery: Loud, hugely enjoyable and instantly recognisable to Scottish audiences from the DC Thomson comic, The Broons is every bit as much fun as you would hope.
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The National Theatre of Scotland has raised £1 million more than expected towards its new headquarters, Rockvilla. The company moves into the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMHighly entertaining: Pulsating and vibrant, Million Dollar Quartet provides a pleasing, high-tempo fictionalised account of one of the great jam sessions in the history of Rock'n'Roll.
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There is a generosity and sincerity to Jumpy at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre, allied to some impressive acting, even if the end result is not as overwhelming as it might be.
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Thoroughly tuneful: Very fine performances and some chorus numbers of an exceptional standard mark out Me and My Girl, EDGAS’s latest foray into non-G&S material at the Church Hill, t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:11PMMario Pirovano had a special relationship with the late, great master of political satire Dario Fo and his wife and collaborator Franca
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMGround-breaking: Anarchic, clever and hinting of ritual, Greg Sinclair’s experiment with the theatrical performance of improvised live music with young people, As the Crow Flies, is a stra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Appealing: Cheeky and rollicking, the touring production of The Full Monty also has its share of pathos and politics, and is a satisfying affair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:15PMEdinburgh-born artistic director for National Theatre of Scotland: The National Theatre of Scotland has announced that Jackie Wylie, who was artistic director of the Glasgow Arches from 2008…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMJackie Wylie, former artistic director of the Arches in Glasgow, has been appointed the new artistic director of the National Theatre of
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The inaugural Edinburgh Horror Festival is dragging a quartet of fringe Edinburgh venues down into its netherworld layer for a weekend of devilish theatre, magic, cabaret and comedy from Fri…
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Sunny intervals: Tuneful and committed, Allegro’s production of Sunshine on Leith at the Church Hill is almost torpedoed by some peculiar staging choices.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:46AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Blindingly Good Mice: The first rule of Mousetrap is you don’t talk about Mousetrap. Well, not the ending, anyway. Since Agatha Christie’s country house murder mystery debuted in 1952 th…
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A new company for emerging actors has been launched as part of a talent development initiative from Edinburgh’s Festival City Theatres. Members of the 18-strong
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Substantial: There is a real emotional heft to Mischief, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint production at the Traverse, aided by impressive performances and noteworthy direction.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:09PMSunday, October 9, 2016
Scrumptious, truly: The famous car is big, gleaming and flies just as it should in the new production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre until Oct 15, but the surrou…
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Impressive and timeless: Poetic, political and dramatic, David Greig’s new version of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus is a striking statement of intent.
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