Helen Schofield
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 1
Her Big Chance & A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
★★★★☆ Poignant
This pair of quietly devastating dramatic monologues from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series, while written (and firmly rooted) in the 1980s, still stand up as tragicomic meditations on loneliness.
Forth Act’s final act
Amateur company calls it a day
Local amateur company The Forth Act has announced that it is closing after six productions, including two memorable al fresco Shakespeares in the Italian Garden of Saughton Park.
Performing Arts Survey
Grassroots group seeks to evaluate theatre in Edinburgh
A new grassroots grouping has put out a survey, aimed at all of Edinburgh’s theatre companies and theatre-makers, in an attempt to find out the size and nature of the city’s theatrical community as well as the resources available to it.
Twelfth Night
★★★☆☆ Droll
The Forth Act return to Saughton Park with another helping of outdoor Shakespeare, transporting the Illyria of Twelfth Night to a beach town in the summer of 1967.
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.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
★★★★☆ Accomplished
In a wood, a league without the Old Town, the players of the Forth Act have set out their stall in an accomplished and highly entertaining al-fresco production of Shakespeare’s great comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Al Fresco Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Forth Act to stage Shakespeare’s Dream in Saughton Park
This midsummer, new Edinburgh grass-roots theatre company, The Forth Act, is set to perform Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the open air arena of the Italian Garden in Saughton Park.
MND23 Callout
Core production team wanted
A new Edinburgh community theatre group is looking to recruit core production team members to help it build towards an al-fresco production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in June 2023.
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