The show opened with a chorus of voices singing to the tune of the Wellerman sea shanty, cheekily welcoming the audience to a 5-star worthy fringe show. They were not joking. Nine talented performers, all students from Acting Coach Scotland, brimmed with vitality and energy as they brought to life the stories of Anne Bonny... Continue Reading →
Before the play had even begun, the cast was in distress; their script for the perfect fairytale play had gone missing! The resulting solution was a semi-improvised cabaret of musical theatre tunes. However, the songs were secondary to the weaving of an imaginative fantasy world, created through suggestions from the audience, all prompted by the... Continue Reading →
The Edinburgh Fringe is well and truly underway, and as it heads into its final week, The Skarsgard Effect, playing at the Space @ Niddry Street, is fully embracing its time to shine. When triplet sisters Emelia, Linda and Natalie create a lie using chatGPT about being bastard Skarsgard children, suddenly lots of doors are... Continue Reading →
The Edinburgh Fringe is rife with potential material for further development, with the ability to expand into larger theatres and venture on tour or onto a London transfer. Usually that means ramping up the production scale and cast size - yet brand new musical Bliss brings a scale that makes you feel like you’ve stepped... Continue Reading →
Trans People Are Awful is currently playing at The Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker One until 31st August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. The thing is, the run is completely sold out, and it’s no wonder why. This play is a riveting edge-of-your-seat true crime meets dark comedy exploration of a trans guy’s hardship in easing his... Continue Reading →
Shona Graham and BJA Productions present Fractured - the play follows Eva as she struggles to piece together her reality following the crash that changed everything. Playing at Underbelly Cowgate (Belly Dancer) until 30th August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. Fractured is a story about memory, shame and grief. It’s about the little bad things... Continue Reading →
Last night, I had the absolute pleasure of watching the opening performance of Next to Normal by Bare Productions. As we have now come to expect from Bare, this was a simply outstanding production, and I’m sure there wasn’t a dry eye in the house by the end. Next to Normal follows the Goodman family... Continue Reading →
Hal balances light and dark very well. As he says of himself, he can be quite “nasty” on stage, but it’s always with a twinkle in the eye and a tongue in cheek. Hal is back at the Edinburgh Fringe to delve into topics like middle-age dating, parenthood, divorce, insane modern politics and social media. With... Continue Reading →
Forth Children's Theatre's School of Rock is at Broughton High School until the 9th August with a matinee on Saturday 9th. Having recently seen their production of the Sound of Music in April, it’s hard to believe FCT brought together a mammoth rock musical in such short time, but they have and it’s raring for... Continue Reading →
Bare Productions has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year with their production of ‘Little Women’. A musical adaption of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott with Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and a book by Allan Knee. This musical tells the story of the March sisters (Jo, Meg, Amy,... Continue Reading →
Isla Cowan’s ‘She Wolf’ is an ecofeminist monologue that confronts the harsh realities of not only living, but surviving in the modern world as a woman. The monologue is delivered by Maggie who is sitting on a bench in Edinburgh Zoo and is addressed to the wolves inhabiting the enclosure opposite. She interrogates woman’s place... Continue Reading →
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