Previews
More? You want more?
SLO considers itself at home at King’s:
“More? You want how many more?” – not Mr Bumble’s reply to Oliver Twist’s plea for more gruel, but how Southern Light Opera must have reacted to director Andy Johnston’s plans for their new production of Oliver!, which opens at the King’s on Tuesday.
Welcome My Son
Circus skills as theatre for Frankenstein tale:
When Phil Hardie injured his ankle in January, it put paid to the Spotted Stripes Circus performance of his new show Welcome my Son at Manipulate, but this week the circus specialist is premiering the show in Summerhall.
Icelandic debut at D21
UK premiere of Icelandic play:
Discover 21, Edinburgh’s smallest theatre, is staging the UK premier of an Icelandic two-hander this weekend with the three-night run of Bitter Sweet by Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir.
Science festival Theatre
The Ideas Factory in performance:
This year’s Edinburgh Science Festival has been launched as the Ideas Factory, a hub for information, ideas and innovation, taking place in Edinburgh from Friday 4 to Sunday 19 April 2015.
Sex and sanitation
Melanie Jordan on her five star hit
Sanitise, the Fringe First winning, five star hit of the 2014 Edinburgh fringe, returns this week for two nights only at the Traverse Theatre.
Beside the road
Migration and identity at Summerhall:
The issues of migration and identity are constantly abused in contemporary politics under the knee-jerk banner of an “immigration problem”. But they are hardly new and even less a “problem”, as a fascinating work-in-progress at Summerhall on Friday explores.
Opening Sister Act
Bohemians get into the habit:
The Bohemians are taking over the King’s theatre this week, with their production of Sister Act, the musical based on the Whoopi Goldberg movie.
It’s Ragtime time
A-Team hit the Pleasance:
Ragtime, the multi-genre musical set in early 20th century New York, opens at the Pleasance on Wednesday for a four night run from A-Team Productions.
Manipulate 2015
Scotland’s Visual Theatre Festival opens this weekend:
The eighth version of Manipulate, the visual theatre festival opens with performances at the Traverse this Saturday, 31 January 2015.
The Gang is Back!
The biggest ever Edinburgh Gang Show is set to hit the stage of the King’s this week with what might also be the largest cast ever to appear in a show at the theatre.
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