Author: Susan Lowes
The Duchess of Malfi
✭✭✭✩✩ Dark drama
The Grads offer up a dose of Machiavellian plotting, madness and multiple murder at the Royal Scots Club in a gripping production of the Duchess of Malfi.
The Wonderful World of Dissocia
✭✭✭✭✭ Heartbreaking escapism
It’s not every day that a show comes along that can profoundly affect you. The Wonderful World of Dissocia from the Grads is one such rare gem; it is charming, enchanting and poignant.
Avenue Q
✭✭✭✭✩ Shooting for the stars
Remember when you were young and they said you were special? That you could do anything you wanted if you just believed? Well, they lied.
La Nina Barro
✭✭✭✩✩ A feminine awakening
What does it mean to be a woman? And how do women form their ideas of self awareness? Edinburgh-based Fronteiras Theatre Lab explores these notions in an original, physical, transcultural performance at the Free Fringe Festival.
Brave MacBeth
✭✭✭✭✩ Foot-tapping treason
Something wicked this way comes to the Famous Spiegeltent in St Andrews Square this fringe. As part of their Did Not Deserve to Die series, Captivate Drama, present the grisly Scottish Play.
Bugsy Malone
✭✭✭✭✩ They have got IT!
Captivate Theatre deliver a charming, uplifting and heartwarming tale about warring gangsters that demonstrates that any body who is anybody will be at their party.
Eden Gate
✭✭✭✭✩ Highly infectious
People make decisions every minute of every day, but what if one of those decisions made the difference between life and death, and the fate of humanity? Such are the questions at the heart of this piece of immersive, interactive theatre.
Tragic Magic
✭✭✩✩✩ Promising fusion
Part of the Edinburgh International Magic Festival, this one man show by Michael Neto fuses together magic with theatre in the story of a man who has to make a choice between the thing that he loves and the one that he loves.
Annie Get Your Gun
✭✭✭✩✩ Crack-shot Annie
Annie Oakley, one of America’s first superstars, demonstrates at the Playhouse all this week that Anything You Can Do, she can do better.
Let It Be
★★★☆☆ A great gig
The Fab Four are back, delivering hit after hit at the Playhouse every night until Saturday.
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