The Grads
EdFringe day 4 – Wild adventures in Circus Land
Family day on the fringe with Andy and Mike’s… Tick Tock Time Machine followed by a trip to the circus with the thrilling Wheel of Death.
Review – Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us
Strong and pungent, the Grads have created a brutal, honest production of Paul Higgins’ debut play which first appeared in an NTS coproduction at the Traverse four years ago.
Review – Dr Faustus
Ambitious production of Doctor Faustus from the Grads aims high but needs greater concentration from the central performance.
Review – Six Degrees of Separation
★★★★☆ Multilayered
Responsible for popularising the idea that every person in the world is just six connections from every other, John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation is a play about greed and envy; about what happens when those six connections are reduced to just one.
Review – Hamlet
* * * St Brides Community Centre Review by Thom Dibdin Exciting and satisfying touches to the casting of the Grads’ solid version of Hamlet provide an extra lift to the production which is running at St Brides all week until Saturday. Here is Hamlet played pretty much as straight revenge tragedy – by the […]
Grads out of Sky Arts’ Stagestruck
Defeated but unbowed Grads return from Northampton with integrity intact By Thom Dibdin The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s adventure into reality television came to an end over the weekend when they bowed out of Sky Arts’ Stagestruck in the quarter finals. The full results of the round, held at the Derngate Theatre in Northampton on […]
Niamh Cusack mentors the Grads in Stagestruck
Quarter finals of Sky Arts’ Stagestruck this weekend By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, the Grads, will learn their fate in the quarter finals of Sky Arts’ series Stagestruck when they make their first on-stage appearance at the Royal & Derngate Theatres, Northampton, on Saturday. The company were joined this week for a day’s […]
Grads make Stagestruck finals
Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group to appear on Sky Arts’ Stagestruck series By ThomDibdin Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, the Grads, have made it through to the last eight of Sky Arts’ series Stagestruck, which will give one amateur company the chance to perform a play in a West End theatre. The Grads went through on the […]
Grads fly in Sky Arts’ Stagestruck
Voting open to get Grads through to next round of Stagestruck By Thom Dibdin The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, known as the Grads, has made it into the qualifying round of Sky Arts’ amateur theatre company competition, Stagestruck. The final prize of the competition is to stage a production in London’s West End. In the […]
Æ Review – The Comedy of Errors
★★★☆☆
Cartoon capers cut right through to the heart of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors in the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s twinkling new production up at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.
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