Forth Children’s Theatre
On Stage Mon 13 – Sun 19 Feb 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
It’s a big musicals week for Edinburgh’s amateur theatre companies with no less than three big musicals hitting the stage this week, along with touring theatre from the Citizens.
Beauty & the Beast: The Panto
★★★☆☆ Charming
Beauty & the Beast: The Panto, the Christmas offering from Forth Children’s Theatre, has the appeal of a traditional pantomime. Like many pantos, it lacks a little in subtlety and smoothness, but makes up for it in determination and pizzazz.
FCT Picks Oliver!
Forth Children’s Theatre picks a pocket of Oliver! for return
Forth Children’s Theatre returns to live this week with a new production of Oliver!, playing the Edinburgh Tabernacle at Inverleith Gardens from Wednesday through to Saturday 23 April 2022.
Listings Mon 18 – Sun 24 April 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
Amateur musicals return with a swagger this week, as FCT’s Oliver! and EMT’s Drowsy Chaperone take the stage. Meanwhile The Meaning of Zong enters its second and final week and there’s a Waitress in town…
Once On This Island
★★★★☆ Poignant energy:
There is real emotional pull to Forth Children’s Theatre’s Once On This Island at the Edinburgh Tabernacle. Director Alex Gordon has fashioned a production that relies on careful staging and a fidelity to the story that makes for an expressive, impressive production.
EdFringe Musicals
Musicals made in Edinburgh:
There’s a whopping 27 different offerings made in Edinburgh in this year’s Musicals and Opera section of the fringe programme.
Whistle Down The Wind
★★★☆☆ Solid:
Forth Children’s Theatre put in a solid production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s musical version of Whistle Down the Wind, at the Edinburgh Academy until Saturday.
Forth Fringe Open Call
Forth CT to stage Once On This Island:
Forth Children’s Theatre has announced its EdFringe 2019 production will be Once On This Island, with open auditions in April after its Spring production has finished.
Sister Act
★★★★★ Nun better:
Tuneful, wonderfully acted and with the comic momentum of a juggernaut, Forth Children’s Theatre’s Sister Act at the Edinburgh Tabernacle is almost unimaginably entertaining.
EdFringe Musicals
Musicals Made in Edinburgh:
Edinburgh’s musical theatre companies are bringing an unprecedented 28 different productions to this year’s Fringe, with everything from full blown musicals to highlights packages of showtunes.
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