1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
✭✭✭✭✩ Entertaining
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…
✭✭✭✭✩ 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…
✭✭✭✭✩ Smashing
Young critics scheme review:
Fun and entertaining, Honk!, Anthony Drewe's modern adaptation of The Ugly Duckling performed as part of…
✭✭✭✩✩ Intense:
There is an interesting perspective on discrimination and identity in Skins and Hoods at the French Institute.
✭✭✩✩✩ Insufficiently fruity:
Lacking nothing in energy, Nell Gwyn: An Epilogue is nevertheless lacking in focus and fails to convince as a result.
✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling:
Not for the fainthearted, Comfort Slaves performed by Immersive Acting Movement deals with horrible issues that have become part of o…
✭✭✭✭✩ Human:
There is a strongly beating human heart behind the Traverse Theatre Company’s Swallow. The cleverly staged production from a largely…
Hairy Maclary is a dog from Donaldson's dairy. He is a character from books by Lynley Dodd. The play is mostly music but is not a musical.
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Junior Review by Cora Dibdin
One woman, a small room, three stories.
✭✭✭✭✩ Heartwarming:
In a multi-layered and engaging performance, Urban Fox Theatre Company deliver a wonderfully warm and intimate insight into modern …
At All Edinburgh Theatre, we are covering as many shows made in Edinburgh being staged during the fringe as we can.
Here is our alphabetical listing of the children's shows which are made b…
✭✭✭✭✩ That’s showbusiness:
Featuring a huge variety of talents and radiating the joy of putting on a show, Forth Children’s Theatre’s…
✭✭✭✩✩ Philosophical potential:
Some Company Productions deliver a thoughtful performance with a lot of potential, but struggle to reconcile the show wi…
✭✭✭✩✩ A desperate poetry:
Dark, troubling and involving, the Traverse Theatre Company’s Crash may not succeed on every level but certainly benefi…
Lothian Road blocked for EIF opener:
Almost 20,000 people witnessed the opening event of this year's Edinburgh International Festival when The Harmonium Project lit up the outside of the Us…
✭✭✭✭✭ Beautiful craftsmanship:
A book is a beautiful thing, a story is a work of art, a fairytale is a thing of dreams. The Bookbinder is all of these …
✭✭✭✭✩ Exciting
Junior review by Cora Dibdin
Baba Yaga at Duddingston Kirk gardens was magical for everyone.
✭✭✭✭✩ Spine tingling:
Magnificently malevolent when it needs to be, Theatre Alba's take on the great Russian folk tale Baba Yaga thrills and frightens …
Æ's young critics go Into the Woods:
Four young Edinburgh-based theatre critics will be reviewing for All Edinburgh Theatre this fringe, in a new mentoring scheme. Here are their early…
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is “in danger of misleading its audience” by using star ratings from other theatres' productions in its advertising and
✭✭✭✭✩ Dark magic:
Wise beyond their years, the young performers of Stage Experience find the dark corners of Sondheim and Lapine's great musical Into t…
Equity has called on the board of Scottish arts centre Comar to resign en masse after it made the creative director of
Perth Theatre has released images of how it will look once a £16.6 million redevelopment is completed. When finished, the venue, run
An internal fraud totalling more than £220,000 has been discovered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The fraud was carried out by an
Reviews from All Edinburgh Theatre's new writers
This August, All Edinburgh Theatre is proud to be taking on four young Edinburgh-based reviewers in a new mentoring initiative.
