Archive for March, 2022
Welcome to the Cabaret
★★★★★ Full on
EU Footlights has wandered down the hill to the Edinburgh Academy Magnusson Centre where their Showchoir’s Welcome to the Cabaret is as good a portmanteau production as any I have seen.
Shrek the Musical
★★★☆☆ Swamptastic
Just 904 days after its first rehearsal, the Bohemians Lyric Opera Company’s production of Shrek the Musical arrives on the King’s stage, battered by Covid in more ways than one, but brave and unbowed none-the-less.
EPT Won’t Weep
Men Should Weep makes the stage – eventually
Of the many productions which fell foul of the Covid lockdowns, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production of Men Should Weep was perhaps the most unlucky not to have made it to the stage on time.
PPP: I’m Dissolving My Love In A Bath Of Acid
★★★☆☆ Absurd
Oozing with comic brio, I’m Dissolving My Love In A Bath Of Acid at the Traverse is a wonderfully performed and energetic if ultimately superficial piece.
SIX The Musical
★★★★☆ Spitting rhymes
Six new queens have taken up royal residency in the cast of SIX, which drops into the Festival Theatre for an extended stay through to March 26 and returns to the Glasgow Theatre Royal in Midsummer.
Listings: Mon 14 – Sun 20 March 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
Edinburgh’s theatres are swinging right back into action this week, with a full complement of productions and, notably, a trio of big amateur productions at the Church Hill, the King’s and the Roxy.
Hairspray
★★★★☆ Pump up the volume
Unlikely civil rights heroine Tracy Turnblad dances her way to a social justice triumph as Hairspray returns to the Playhouse for a week until Saturday and comes back to Glasgow at the end of the month.
Sweet FA script published
War Of Two Halves to follow
Sweet FA, the tale of a women’s football team in Edinburgh during the First World War, was a resounding hit at last year’s Fringe and has now been published in book form.
The Scent of Roses
★★★☆☆ Lacks urgency
The Scent of Roses, from writer-director Zinnie Harris at the Lyceum, features a top-notch cast and dialogue that often rings true regarding how self-delusion and self-evasion wreck our relationships with each other and the world around us. However, the production as a whole never truly ignites
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
★★★☆☆ Spacey
Brief, but never tedious, the jazz-infused production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company at Assembly Roxy is packed with great ideas and quirky detail.
