Author: Rebecca Mahar
Twelfth Night
★★★☆☆ Droll
The Forth Act return to Saughton Park with another helping of outdoor Shakespeare, transporting the Illyria of Twelfth Night to a beach town in the summer of 1967.
Scottish Opera Double Bill
Trial by Jury – ★★★★☆ Absurd
A Matter of Misconduct! – ★★★★☆ Shrewd
Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary Gilbert & Sullivan’s partnership by pairing Trial By Jury with A Matter of Misconduct!, a new operetta commissioned in response to it.
The Merry Widow
★★★★★ Scintillating
Scottish Opera presents a scintillating new adaptation of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Festival Theatre, bringing its setting into the twentieth century, and its sensibilities into the twenty-first.
Monumental
★★★★☆ Momentous
Up-and-coming feminist theatre company F-Bomb Theatre presents Monumental, an innovative piece of historical site-specific theatre, in the form of a walking tour around Edinburgh.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
★★★★☆ Timely
Arkle Theatre Company mix humour and deadly reality at the Hill Street Theatre, in their take on Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a farce that keeps living up to its genre with more and more irony.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★★★★★ Exceptional
Brimming with music and whimsy, fear and wonder, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, touring to the Festival Theatre all week, is a spectacular interpretation of C.S. Lewis’s classic novel.
Dracula
★★☆☆☆ Atmospheric
Blackeyed Theatre’s Dracula is an atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker’s seminal Gothic novel, with more ambitions than successes.
Jesus Christ Superstar
★★★★☆ It’s the buzz
Southern Light blaze onto the Festival Theatre stage with their production of the Lloyd Webber & Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, tackling this modern classic with a monstrous cast and ambitious production values.
In Other Words
★★★★☆ Painfully vital
A compelling look into the life and struggles of a couple dealing with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, TBC Productions’ In Other Words pairs painful truth with the commitment of love and the power of music, in a play that strikes at the heart of humanity.
The Crucible
★★★★★ Visceral
Scottish Ballet’s revival of its 2019 production of The Crucible haunts the Festival Theatre with visceral intensity, translating its tale of 17th century American witch trials through the sharp storytelling of Helen Pickett’s contemporary ballet.
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