Author: Rebecca Mahar
Shakespeare’s Dead Dames
★★★☆☆ Conflicted
Aberdeen’s Academy of Expressive Arts brings a company of Senior and HNC students to the Fringe in “their first production that’s not a musical”: Shakespeare’s Dead Dames, directed by AEA founder and Principal, Shanna Logan.
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
★★★★★ Bangin’
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor at CC Blooms is a wildly irreverent, casually gruesome, curiously grounded look at Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers.
Bloody Mary’s
★★★★★ Riveting
Fat Pooch Productions makes its theatre debut at theSpace @ Venue 45 with Bloody Mary’s, a rich, raw, riveting look inside the life and death of Mary McKinnon, a figure of notoriety and injustice in Edinburgh’s history.
The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle
★★★★☆ Slick
Lauriston Castle opens its doors to Fringe-goers in partnership with the Edinburgh International Magic Festival for The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle, an immersive magic experience featuring three expert illusionists.
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Jane Austen’s Love & Freindship [sic]
★★★☆☆ Droll
Edinburgh Rep Company and Erstwhile Media take on Jane Austen with an adaptation of the legendary novelist’s Love and Freindship [sic], a satirical parody written by Austen at the age of fourteen.
An Island of Bad Ideas: The Tempest
★★★★☆ Sprightly
Edinburgh Youth Theatre return to the Fringe with another condensed Shakespeare, An Island of Bad Ideas: The Tempest, which brings Shakespeare’s tale of shipwreck, vengeance, sorcery, and love in under an hour.
Gagula: The Panto With Teeth!
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Pig’s Ear Productions are back with another panto, this year moving away from Shakespeare and into another classic art form: drag.
Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth
★★★★★ Smashin’
Captive Theatre romps into the Bijou tent at St. Andrew’s Square with Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth, a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy that’s heavy on charm and cheek and entirely without condescension.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
★★★★★ Splendimum
Captivate Theatre tackle the towering stage adaptation of Menken & Schwartz’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame with scale, beauty, and outstanding commitment to a score that demands nothing less than divine inspiration.
Into the Woods
★★★★☆ Dark whimsy
Captivate Theatre takes on the Sondheim classic Into the Woods at their new venue down at Edinburgh Academy in Stockbridge, with a production that is charming and ambitious.
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