Posts Tagged ‘theatre’
Nan Shepherd: The pioneering explorer whose writing brought the Cairngorms to life
Theatre director Richard Baron has spent a lot of time uncovering the incredible life of Nan Shepherd. He shares her story with us ahead of his new play which depicts the Scottish writer’s incredible life. Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed premieres at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in May. During the Covid lockdown in 2021…
Read MoreReview: Hamilton, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
You would be hard pressed to find a Broadway or West End show in the past few years that has created the same social impact as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Now on tour in the UK & Ireland, you will want to catch this show. ★★★★★ Some musicals make introductions slowly, serenading you into the…
Read MoreAction! £1.25m appeal for Historic Edinburgh cinema
A fundraising campaign has started to reopen the historic Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh. Supporters want to raise at least £1.25 million to cover the cost of reopening and refurbishing of the 19th-century building on Lothian Road by next year. It housed a three-screen cinema and was home to the Edinburgh International Film Festival before the…
Read MoreGroup Portrait in a Summer Landscape on show in Edinburgh next month
Playwright Peter Arnott’s Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape is coming to Edinburgh next month. The play is set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014. It revolves around retired academic and political heavyweight, George Rennie – played by John Michie – and his fractured family and former students, coming…
Read MoreHighland Echoes: Scottish heritage celebrated in America
Scotland’s history and heritage has been celebrated in America through music and dance production Highland Echoes. The two-hour show took place at the Appalachian Theatre in Boone, North Carolina, in July, and tried to capture the “essence of Scotland” through dance and music. The music of Highland Echoes tells a tale that stretches across continents,…
Read MoreFestival Review: Phaedra/Minotaur
Madeleine Sutton reviews Phaedra/Minotaur at the Edinburgh International Festival. IN THIS production of Phaedra/Minotaur – which pairs Benjamin Britten’s final poignant cantata Phaedra, with the moving new dance piece Minotaur – opera and theatre director Deborah Warner and choreographer Kim Brandstrup take us through themes of passion, female desire, and devastation. Phaedra, based on Robert…
Read MoreFringe Review: Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt
Alister Tenneb reviews Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I FIRST saw Frank Skinner more than 30 years ago, performing in one of the smallest rooms in the Pleasance Courtyard, a couple of years before he won The Perrier Award. I think there were about five people in the crowd.…
Read MoreFringe Review: Fall and Flow
Megan Amato reviews Fall and Flow at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. AS I slipped into the performance, I was not clear on what kind of show I had walked into to as it was wholly different from what I had expected nor anything like what I had seen at the Edinburgh Fringe so far. However,…
Read MoreFringe Review: The Legends of Mountains and Seas
Megan Amato reviews The Legends of Mountains and Seas at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. THE Graduate Institute of Performing Arts of National Taiwan Normal University’s The Legends of Mountains and Seas dramatises the Chinese myth of legendary archer Hou Yi, who was banished to Earth for shooting down nine out of ten suns and his…
Read MoreFringe Review: Let the Bodies Pile
Jeremy Welch reviews Let the Bodies Pile at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. HENRY NAYLOR is a fantastic playwright with justifiable awards and accolades heaped upon him. This production is typical Naylor, probing, questioning and leaving the audience to judicate. Is it his best work? No, but it is great theatre all the same. The play…
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