Archive for March, 2025
Chef
★★★☆☆ Turbulent
Sabrina Mahfouz’s Chef, starring Rebecca Benson, plays the Traverse for one night only in a production that crackles with energy and is a showcase for Benson’s solo performance.
Wild Rose
★★★★★ Triumphant
New musical Wild Rose is the last show of David Greig’s eight years as Artistic Director of the Lyceum and it is an absolute triumph.
Spring Awakening
★★★☆☆ Ambitious
Spring Awakening, from Theatre Paradok at the Bedlam, is an earnest and ambitious production that does not always succeed despite some accomplished performances.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
★★★★★ Long live the Queen
The Bohemians open their limited run of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – The Musical at the Festival Theatre to a standing ovation, with a production full of glitz, glam, disco, and heart.
PPP: Kev Campbell Was He
★★★☆☆ Engaging
Kev Campbell Was He, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is an engaging and gently political production.
Priscilla goes Bohemian
Bohemians’ Priscilla for Festival Theatre
Edinburgh has a long relationship with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which was the opening gala movie at its International Film Festival in 1994, when the after party dress-code was “black tie or drag”. We speak to Greg McCafferty-Thomson, Graeme Melvin and Dean McAvoy about donning frocks for the film’s musical adaption.
Piece of Work
★★★★★ Searching
Piece of Work, the second act of James Rowland’s Songs of the Heart trilogy, visiting the Traverse as part of a UK tour of all three shows, is, fittingly, about the “middle of life”.
Cendrillon
★★★☆☆ Delicate
Charm and charisma run through Edinburgh Studio Opera’s production of Cendrillon, Jules Massenet’s take on the Cinderella story, playing at the Pleasance theatre for three nights only.
The Testament of Gideon Mack
★★★☆☆ Meandering
Dogstar’s touring production of The Testament of Gideon Mack is involving and thoroughly accomplished but simply too long to be entirely convincing.
Driftwood
★★★☆☆ Poignant
Tim Foley’s Driftwood visits the Traverse this week as part of a national tour in a co-production between renowned new writing champions ThickSkin and Pentabus.
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