Scottish Storytelling Centre
Strange Town Nights
TV appearances and shows for youth company:
Edinburgh-based Strange Town youth theatre has a double celebration this week as four of its members appear in the BBC’s new drama Stonemouth and five of its productions hit the Scottish Storytelling Centre stage.
Bring me the head of Johnny Murdock
✭✭✭✭✩ Slick trick:
Sharp, dynamic and oozing attitude, Strange Town Youth Theatre bring all the dynamism of cinema action onto the Netherbow stage for one night only.
Chrysalis shortlist revealed
Edinburgh youth companies up for Chrysalis award:
Three of Edinburgh’s youth theatre companies are on the shortlist for Chrysalis a new platform for ambitious and provocative performance by young theatre-makers.
Strange Town’s Xmas
Five world premiere’s from youth theatre:
The Strange Town Youth Theatre is staging five world premieres of short plays by young and emerging playwrights at the Scottish Storytelling Centre this week.
My Name is Saoirse
✭✭✭✩✩ Delicate
A performance of quiet delicacy distinguishes Sunday’s Child’s production My Name is Saoirse.
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.
Review – The Edibles
✭✭✭✭✭ Perfectly pitched
Care and attention to details make Grinagog Theatre’s magnificent little production something very special as it flits into the Scottish Storytelling Centre for just four shows in two days.
Review – Ban This Filth!
Gender and sexual identity are on the agenda as Alan Bissett returns for a one-off performance of his one-man show Ban This Filth!, to benefit the Edinburgh Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.
Review – The Weegie Board, A West Coast Ghost Story
There are plenty of shivers down the spine on offer from Scottish Youth Theatre in their short but entertaining production of David Cosgrove’s The Weegie Board.
Review – The Man Who Planted Trees
★★★★★ Beautiful, entertaining morality tale:
With simple but elegant staging and charming puppets and puppetry, Puppet State Theatre Company presents a genuinely touching and engrossing adaptation of Jean Giono’s novel.
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