Saturday, August 29, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Effectively affecting:
Letters To Aberlour stands out from many of the recent depictions of the horrors of the First World War by virtue of its …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AMFriday, August 28, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Tunefully diverse:
Tuneful, varied and unfussily melodic, A Bohemians’ Rhapsody is a thoroughly satisfactory evening out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMThursday, August 27, 2015
✭✭✭✭✭ Riotous assembly:
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is a massive beast of a thing, beautifully crafted in its ragged humanity and utterly irresisti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50PM✭✭✭✩✩ Shipshape:
There is a straightforward likeability to Cat Like Tread’s H.M.S. Pinafore that helps it to overcome some less confident moments.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13PM✭✭✭✩✩ Stirring:
Captivate Theatre’s Spring Awakening is a committed and occasionally thrilling production that does not quite have the conviction …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05PM✭✭✭✩✩ Skilful sci-fi:
Well thought out and clever, this adaptation of Moby-Dick set in space by Seattle-based duo Charles has an individual visual style…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AM✭✭✭✭✩ Swear it’s good:
Pinched! Theatre’s story of a teenage indie band’s dissolution seeks to combine comedy, theatre and indie roc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Fab:
Energetic and funny, Baldynoggin’s staging of John Lennon: In His Own Write at the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe has a real wit and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:46PMThe Music and Songs of Julian Wagstaff
✭✭✭✩✩ Elegant and accessible
There is a broad appeal to Song To Me, a programme of excerpts from various works b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:29PM✭✭✭✩✩ Fascinating but uneven:
Boasting impressive music and dance, Asian Music Circuit’s Umrao – The Noble Courtesan is a production with de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:04PMTheatre creativity threatened by ‘managerialism’ says McMillan:
It is ‘the long march of managerialism’, not government cuts, that threatens the vitality of Scottish…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
A science-fiction play by American writer Gordon Dahlquist has won this year’s James Tait Black prize for drama, beating competition from Rona
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMUse of Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms as a fringe venue has been put out to tender by its owners, the City of Edinburgh
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AM✭✭✭✭✩ The unstageable, staged:
A world of hugely entertaining possibilities is on display in Lanark. The co-production between the Citizens Theatre an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:33AMMonday, August 24, 2015
✭✭✩✩✩ A touch lacking:
Touch, a co-production between Ciaran Myers and Edinburgh-based Asylon Theatre at the New Town Theatre, treats difficult themes s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40PM✭✭✭✩✩ More deadly than magic:
Dani Iannarelli’s love letter to film noir and jazz combines film clips, music and a noirish plot. The outcome is to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02AM✭✭✭✭✩ Timeless comedy:
At first glance, The Missing Hancocks is a strange idea for a Fringe show – a recreation of the recording of 1950s radio …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AMSunday, August 23, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Epic comedy:
Rough-hewn but sparkling with energy and invention, there's neigh-doot that Napier University Drama Society's world premier of Horsep…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:27AM✭✭✭✭✩ Joyful
Young critics scheme review:
Captivate Theatre reprise their take on Sunshine on Leith, Stephen Greenhorn's feel-good jukebox musical, b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:32AM✭✭✭✭✩ Family fun
Young critics scheme review:
Educational, side-splitting and with just the right amount of ridiculous, Shakespeare in the Garden - C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:43AM✭✭✭✭✩ Insightful dystopia:
Truth permeates The Garden, Zinnie and John Harris' semi-opera, commissioned by Aberdeen's sound Festival and playing off-si…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:02AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Emotional rollercoaster
Young critic scheme review:
Creative, absorbing, and very wacky, the Finnish Ryhmateatteri Ensemble’s version of Ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:20PM✭✭✭✭✭ True Excellence
Young critics scheme review:
Fast-paced, funny and moving, the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group brings to life Howard Ashman…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:56PM✭✭✭✩✩ Mourning becomes electronica:
A Requiem For Edward Snowden, the ‘digital opera’ at Stockbridge Church, has an eerie contemporaneity,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:50AMFriday, August 21, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Resounding success:
Involving, clever, and with an intriguing melancholy and subtle political edge, The Voice Thief at Summerhall is thoroughly r…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMThursday, August 20, 2015
✭✭✩✩✩ Closed in:
M and E Theatre’s No Exit? is a strangely diffuse production, with plenty of energy but not much cohesion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:01PM✭✭✭✩✩ Promising start:
New company Third Degree Theatre’s musical presentation of the life of Robert Burns has a lot going for it. It may not be t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:43PM✭✭✭✩✩ Lacks sparkle
Some fine young performers feature in New Celts and Nook N’ Cranny’s production of Gregory Burke’s black comedy Ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:56PMHundred of companies join new scheme:
Hundreds of companies with shows on at the fringe have joined a new scheme to help give complementary tickets to looked-after children in Edinburgh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:39PMIt's Pinafore Captain, but not as we know it
Guest post from Vinca Russell:
This fringe, in amongst a host of new musicals and interpretations of hot Broadway shows, there are just two wri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:12AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Rebecca Herd launches Heartlands EP:
An EP of the original music written by Ayrshire-based singer-songwriter Rebecca Herd for Heartlands is being released on Thursday, with a launch event a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:23PM 
