Edinburgh Makars
Review – Come Blow Your Horn
✭✭✭✩✩ Enjoyable retro entertainment
The Edinburgh Makars provide a solid evening’s entertainment and some big laughs in their production of Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn at Murrayfield Parish Church Centre.
Challenging nights at SCDA One Act Festival
The SCDA’s three-evening festival of one act plays opens at St Serf’s in controversial mode on Valentines night with a Sixties examination of racism deemed so problematic it comes with its own contents warning.
Edinburgh Amateurs On The Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh-based amateur theatre companies appearing in the fringe:
It’s Edinburgh’s festival, and Edinburgh’s amateur and student theatre companies aren’t about to let anyone forget, with a programme of events which would make a pretty decent festival in their own right.
Æ Review – The Edge of Darkness
* * St Bride’s Centre By Thom Dibdin There is a quick, bright undertow to the Edinburgh Makars production of Brian Clemens’ psychological drama, The Edge of Darkness, which is set in a remote, cliff-side house in the early 20th century. This is largely thanks to Susan Robertson as Penny, the young housekeeper who has […]
Æ Review – Agatha Christie’s The Hollow
★★☆☆☆
There is nothing sleepy about the Hollow to which the Angkatells have retired in this country house weekend murder mystery from the Makars, which is at Adam House until Saturday.
Preview for the week: 23-29 November
It’s another busy week at Edinburgh’s theatres, where the amateur companies are taking centre stage with three productions – at St Columba’s, Adam House and Saughtonhall – while Scottish Opera continue to hold the stage at the Festival Theatre.
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