Tag: Theatre
Leith Theatre Group – Not for Profit
In many ways 2011 has been the year of protest with people taking to the streets in countries as far flung as Greece, Tunisia, Egypt and the USA. Closer to home, we have observed Unison campaigning...
Review: Going Dark (Traverse Theatre) (****)
Entering the auditorium, you’re ushered into a curtained-off area filled with low stools and strange projectors – which you quickly gather is a planetarium. Here, John Mackay’s understated astronomer shows you the wonders of...
New Edinburgh Science Fiction Theatre Company ‘Takes Off’
Tonight the country’s only theatre company dedicated to producing science fiction, is to take its maiden voyage in ‘Black Sky’ – an evening of science fiction stories. The setting is The Scottish Storytelling Centre, but...
Places announce for Playwright Development Programme in Edinburgh
Siege Perilous and Writer-in-Residence Caroline Dunford are delighted to announce the names of the six playwrights who have secured a place on this year’s Playwright Development Programme, including two from Edinburgh.
They are John...
Review: 27, Royal Lyceum Theatre (****)
There’s a lot to think about in Abi Morgan’s new play, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. The reasons for the onset of Alzheimer’s; scientific ethics; dwindling...
Fringe show goes to the Sydney Opera House
Edinburgh-based Nonsense Room Productions will be taking their children’s show ‘Hairy Maclary and Friends’ to the Sydney Opera House for five weeks, from 15 December 2011 – 15 January 2012.
Bruce Strachan, Artistic Director of...
Review: You Cannot Go Forward From Where You Are Right Now, Traverse Theatre (****)
You might expect the writers of the successful ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ lunchtime offerings to have rather modest ambitions in their 45-minute plays. Not so David Watson in this week’s 1pm...
Edinburgh Festival Theatre – Hormonal Housewives
Festival Theatre
2- 5 November 2011
Following last year’s sell-out tour, Carol Smillie once again leads the cast in the hilarious comedy Hormonal Housewives, which embarks upon a limited tour of selected venues in Scotland...
Usher Hall – our city’s 5 star venue
Many famous stars have played at this historic building since 1914. This year, the Hall welcomes a handful of new stars: a 5 star award for excellence from VisitScotland.
The Council-owned venue is the only...
Getting out of Edinburgh – Lammermuir Festival – 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
The Lammermuir Festival is delighted to announce that David McKay will play the mysterious ‘M’ in Phillip Glass’s highly anticipated science fiction music drama, ‘1000 Airplanes on the Roof’ at Concorde Hangar on Sunday...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: One Thousand and One Nights (*****)
British director Tim Supple’s extraordinary stage adaptation of the classic Arabic masterpiece makes evident demands on its audience. It’s more than six hours long, and has to be viewed in two sittings. It’s performed...
Course for playwrights at McDonald Road Library
The McDonald Road Library in Leith is offering budding Edinburgh playwrights an opportunity to grab a place at its free ‘How to be a Playwright’ event. The course was a sell-out event at this year’s Edinburgh...
Casting call for Snow White and the Seven Leithers
Leith Community Theatre are looking for cast and crew for this year's pantomime of 'Snow White and The Seven Leithers' set in the mystical land of of Leithuania. And the good news is - it could...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (***)
‘Confusing’ was the word I heard most often as the audience was leaving the King’s Theatre after Sunday’s performance of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. And I’d have to agree with the description.
Which is ironic,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Wheel (***)
Zinnie Harris’s epic drama crosses several centuries and brings up a host of themes – but it left me rather perplexed. Opening in 19th-century Spain, where preparations for a wedding are brutally interrupted when...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Man of Valour (****)
It’s the astonishing performance by Paul Reid that really carries this one-man show. White-faced and wide-eyed, he’s Farrell, a corporate drone contending with the daily grind of commuting and irritating colleagues, but in his...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Preview : RELEASE
Icon Theatre, a Kent based, national touring company producing physical and visual theatre, come to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time to premiere their brand new production, RELEASE, at the Pleasance Dome...
Siege Perilous announce new mentoring scheme
A new mentoring and development programme for emerging playwrights has been announced this week. Edinburgh-based theatre production company, Siege Perilous, is introducing the scheme in conjunction with its inaugural Writer-in-Residence Caroline Dunford.
The aim of...
Review – Blood Brothers at Leith Festival
Blood Brothers, Willy Russell’s play about class divide, was first performed in 1982 at Fazakarley Comprehensive in Liverpool. It has since been transformed into a massively successful musical, boasting stars as diverse as Barbara...
Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2011
Catherine Wheels today emerged as the leader at this year’s Critics’ Awards For Theatre In Scotland ceremony at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. The children’s theatre specialists – who are also based in the capital -...
Bat Boy: The Musical preview
The MGA Academy of Performing Arts on Balgreen Road is home to many talented performers and this week they're taking their abilities to new pastures. Or should we say darker pastures?
The full-time students are producing...
Getting out of Edinburgh – Romeo and Juliet at Traquair
Romeo and Juliet is being performed at Traquair from 1-4 June and 7-10 June in the garden of Traquair House. A promenade performance that you can combine with dinner for a very civilised evening...
Edinburgh hosts Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2011
The National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum have emerged as the leaders in this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland nominations, shortlisted in no less than six categories each. Dundee Repertory...
Review: Dunsinane – A Contemporary Play set in an Historical Context (*****)
Dunsinane, which runs at the Royal Lyceum Theatre until 4th June 2011, is an extremely well produced National Theatre of Scotland contemporary play. In the view of this reviewer it should not be missed!
This...
Dunsinane at The Lyceum from 13 May 2011
Starring Siobhan Redmond The National Theatre of Scotland stages a new play by David Greig from 13 May to 4 June 2011 at The Lyceum.
Macbeth is dead. Under cover of night, an English army...
Moving Lights Theatre Company at Leith Festival
Kat Folan has recently started her own theatre company Moving Lights Theatre and they have their first production coming up in June at the Leith Festival.
The actors are ambitious and are staging...
Lenny Henry – Cradle to Rave
Lenny Henry's new one man show is on at the Festival Theatre tonight. You might be lucky enough to get a ticket. If you do let us know what you think - room for...
Okavango Macbeth – Shakespeare with a twist
Tonight, Okavango Macbeth is being performed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.
It is the classic tale of Shakespeare's Macbeth, told in a not-so-classic way through baboons...
Around The World In 80 Days
Some readers may remember our February interview with Michael Fraser, the Managing Director of Lung Ha’s Theatre Company. At the time, rehearsals were underway for Around the World in 80 Days, the first fully...
Update on Save Stockbridge Theatre campaign
by Ros Lambert
The Save Stockbridge Theatre Building Action Group, met with the Council yesterday - Thursday 24 March 2011. The Council confirmed that the building is to be sold, as...
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