Archive for October, 2019
The Night Watch
★★★☆☆ Uneasy retelling:
The touring adaptation at the King’s of The Night Watch, the best-selling novel by Sarah Waters, has a great deal of emotional clarity, but little in the way of dramatic power.
Scripts wanted
Three live script requests from Edinburgh companies:
It’s October, so it must be time for the Traverse Theatre to open its annual script submissions window, as part of its commitment to open up the theatre to new voices and under-represented communities.
An Inspector Calls
★★★★☆ Worryingly compelling:
The revival of a much-garlanded take on J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls at the King’s is wonderfully staged, relevant and more than a little troubling.
PPP: The Signalman
★★★★★ Riveting
There is a touch of horror to The Signalman, in which playwright Peter Arnott views the Tay Bridge disaster from the post of signalman Thomas Barclay, on duty at the south end of the bridge on the evening of Sunday December 28, 1879.
MagicFest 10 Revealed
Tenth MagicFest programme is out:
Details of the tenth Edinburgh MagicFest, taking place from 27 December 2019 to 5 January 2020, have been revealed, with a new Hogmanay event added at Lauriston Castle.
Listings Mon 7 – Sun 13 Oct 2019
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
The big musical theatre guns hit town this week with the music of Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet at the Festival Theatre and Queen in We Will Rock You at the Playhouse.
McDonald’s Playhouse Return
McDonald Cruises back into Edinburgh:
Jane McDonald will be cruising back onto the Edinburgh Playhouse stage in June 2020 with full backing band and singers at the start of her Let The Light In tour.
Annie
★★★☆☆ Optimistic:
The sun, as always, is coming out tomorrow in Annie, but in this touring production at the Playhouse to Saturday, the orphan’s optimism is more dearly bought than it might be.
A Woman of No Importance
★★★☆☆ Curiosity value:
A Woman of No Importance, Classic Spring Company’s touring production at the King’s, is an accomplished piece of theatre whose stately nature contains little in the way of excitement.
