Author: Rebecca Mahar
Manipulate: These Things Aren’t Mine
★★★★☆ Intense
Publicly screened only once before, at Bristol Circus City, Manipulate Festival marks the Scottish debut of These Things Aren’t Mine.
Three Queens from the Opera
★★★☆☆ Viva queens!
For one night only, writer and director Michael Scott brings together three formidable queens for a preview performance of his new opera concert parody, Three Queens from the Opera.
Mary Poppins
★★★★★ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Blown in on her umbrella by the gusts of Storm Éowyn, the new UK & Ireland tour of Mary Poppins arrives in Edinburgh in a fashion that can only be described by the mysterious nanny’s own superlative: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The Merchant of Venice
★★★★★ Unflinching
Completing the inaugural outing of The Shakespeare Exchange, a partnership of the Lyceum with New York City-based Theatre for a New Audience, TFANA brings Arin Arbus’s unflinching production of The Merchant of Venice to Edinburgh.
Merry Crisis! A Comedy in Carols
★★★★☆ Memorable
The Forth Act’s festive offering: Merry Crisis! A Comedy in Carols, is a heartfelt new one-act with music, good cheer, holiday family drama, and a thorough dusting of joy – all wrapped up in a neat bow.
baba
★★☆☆☆ Unfulfilled
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group brings a new festive folktale to the Pleasance stage this weekend in the form of baba, a new take on the old tales of Baba Yaga and her house on chicken legs. This piece has many ambitions, but falls short of achieving them in its writing and execution.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
★★★★★ Never hesitating
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat blazes onto the Edinburgh Playhouse stage in a whirl of rainbow magic, saturated with the joy and energy that cements its place as an enduring classic of modern and contemporary musical theatre.
Jack and the Beanstalk
★★★★☆ Porty Pals
What do you get when you combine an evil landlord and his devious henchwoman, a boy and his mother just trying to survive, and their faithful cow? Well a pantomime of course— what were you expecting?
Blithe Spirit
★★★★☆ Spectral
Up-and-coming local amateur company The Forth Act has boldly taken on one of Noël Cowards best-known and oft-produced plays with strong success.
The Tailor of Inverness
★★★★☆ Enduring
Now in its sixteenth year of production, Dogstar Theatre Company’s The Tailor of Inverness remains a compelling —and troublingly timely— depiction of the multigenerational scars of war.
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