Tag: Theatre
King’s Panto 2016 : Jack and the Beanstalk *****
As I write this, I’m listening to BBC Radio 1’s Review of 2016. It does not make for happy listening. As years go, this one has been one many of us would rather forget.
This...
At the Lyceum – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Can you imagine six impossible things before breakfast? Try these words -Donald/Trump/In/The/White/House.
Perhaps Anthony Neilson’s ingenious take on Lewis Carroll’s timeless psycho-charade of childhood fantastical philosophical conundrums might explain it.
The impossible becomes incredible. With Nick...
Theatre REVIEW — Once Upon a Time in Wigan ***
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company's Once Upon a Time in Wigan has a lot going for it. An enthusiastic young cast, an audience of students keen to enjoy the night, and that sweet, sweet,...
Theatre REVIEW – Crude *****
There's a moment during Grid Iron's production of Crude when the multi-award-winning Edinburgh-based theatre company takes full advantage of the cavernous, industrial performance space offered by Shed 36 in the Port of Dundee. As...
Theatre REVIEW – The Broons: Maggie’s Wedding *****
As we wait for Scotland's favourite family to take the stage, it seems an incongruous setting. Perth's sleek twenty-first century concert hall is filled by traditional Scottish songs made famous by the likes of Andy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: People of the Eye *****
As the Fringe draws gradually to its close, it seems apt to reflect on the highs and lows of this unique month. Those of us lucky enough to live in Edinburgh will perhaps be looking forward...
The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil – Lyceum Theatre
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
Dundee Rep Ensemble present
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Dates: 14 – 24 September
With recently appointed Artistic Director, David Greig, now firmly in the saddle his programme scheduling...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother (V82)
"Can you stay true to yourself, when everything suggests you change? 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in Smother: a story of two men's broken encounter. Returning after a sold out Edinburgh Fringe 2015...
Music maverick Roy Harper coming to the Usher Hall next month
The music maverick and radical ultra-folk icon Roy Harper has announced four live dates in the UK to celebrate his 75th this September. The tour takes in Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and London and will feature string and brass ensemble arranged by Fiona Brice.
Now a recording artist for...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: BLUSH****
At Underbelly's Cowgate venue, BLUSH is another play on this year's Fringe that incorporates glitchy sound design, a stripped-down setting, actors taking on multiple roles, and a sense of foreboding and menace. BLUSH has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe at The Circus Hub – The Hogwallops
We reported favourably on these guys during last year's Festival and they were every bit as entertaining this time around. And, rather than repeat what we've already said, a bit about what they and the show...
Review: Bring It On – The Musical ****
It’s fair to say many people could do with a pick-me-up right now. One is almost at the stage where one is wary of switching on the television or radio or going on-line for...
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Dublin Oldschool
This garrulous blizzard of Gælic word wizardry, riotous punchy patois and infectious urban guerilla idiom screams from the eclectic, eclectic pen of Award winning playwright, Emmet Kirwan.
Inviting blush-inducing accolades such as, ’ dark...
Syrian refugees at the Assembly Roxy – Queens of Syria
An all female cast will bring the Queens of Syria to the Assembly Roxy on 19 and 20 July.
This is part of a three week UK tour but the only opportunity to see the...
Ten – A Celebration of Ten Years of the MGA Academy of Performing Arts...
Photographs courtesy of AJG Photography
2016 is the tenth anniversary of one of Scotland’s leading performing arts academies - Edinburgh’s very own MGA Academy of Performing Arts. They are celebrating this notable achievement by putting...
Theatre – interview with Siobhan Redmond
The Edinburgh Reporter was given the opportunity to interview Siobhan Redmond who has been appearing at The Royal Lyceum Theatre during this last week. The production ends tonight.
TER: Notwithstanding the intense preparation and rehearsals for...
Je Suis Un Baroque Star
Thon Man Molière by Liz Lochhead at The Royal Lyceum
until 11 June 11 2016
'or whit got him intae all that bother...'
This salaciously delicious, self referencing farce, delivered in contemporary Scots dialect with occasional robust vernacular,...
At the Festival Theatre – The Mikado
Scottish Opera reunites with D'Oyly Carte to bring this new production of The Mikado to Edinburgh.
Written in 1885 and set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu in the 1880s, this ever-popular opera satirises...
Thon Man Molière – Liz Lochhead’s new play
Edinburgh Royal Lyceum
Thon Man Molière.
20 May 2016 to 11 June 2016
Archived on BBC iPlayer is (the rather dashing) Dr Michael Scott's revelatory series exploring the impact of Classical Greek theatre on Western civilisation’s later...
David Greig takes over at the Lyceum
The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh launched its 2016-17 programme with dazzling derring-do earlier today.
Newly appointed Artistic Director, David Greig’s, tenure has not so much hit the ground running as rocketed this already vibrant 2016 season...
REVIEW – The Iliad – A Kingdom For A Gift Horse
“… There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
For a long ten years the Greeks assail the impregnable...
The Iliad – War Horse with Attitude!
It’s the same old story, bored, beautiful young wife of grizzly warrior King Menalaus, Spartan by birth, Spartan by nature, elopes with Adonian handsome Trojan prince, envoy, Paris. Thus ensues the launching of the...
Bella Hardy to appear at the Brunton in Musselburgh
Multi award winning singer and songwriter Bella Hardy will be appearing at the Brunton in Musselburgh on 9 April.
2015 was a breathless year for Bella which saw the release of her seventh solo album,...
Review: A Story of Tom Jones. The Musical ***
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, my mother sought an escape from the travails of bringing up her young son on her own by switching on the Dansette record player and putting on...
Review : The Crucible Royal Lyceum Theatre
Will America buy in to Donald Trump's vision of a God-fearing New Jerusalem? (Terms & Conditions apply).
Was the Holy Father's perceived interference in the Democratic process, albeit the American variety, ill-judged?
'If you don't know...
Review: Footloose: The Musical ****
There has recently been something of an 80s revival in cultural matters with acts such as Rick Astley, Adam Ant and ABC being part of the Rewind Festival which visits Scotland in July. If you...
The Lyceum Theatre : The Crucible
The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh presents
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Directed by John Dove
From 18 February – 19 March 2016
“I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – SANCTUARY
HEARTBREAK STORIES BEHIND SOLDIERS’ THANK-YOU NOTES
An actress has written a play about the impact of war on women – after receiving heart-wrenching letters from soldiers in Iraq.
Susanne Sulby – whose father was in the US...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Review – I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue *****
Aficionados of BBC Radio Four’s long-running antidote to panel shows I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue knew what to expect when host Jack Dee brought the team to the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday evening....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – 2015 – Rap Guide to Climate Chaos interview
Rap Guide To Climate Chaos. Baba Brinkman explains why building an Ark is not an option.
2014’s Fringe welcomed the return of Vancouver, verse-wrangling hip-hop muse maneuverer, Baba Brinkman, reprising his highly acclaimed 2004 Canterbury Tales Fringe...
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