#EdFringe
Auditionees, Please
Open call for Paprichoo’s Number, Please:
Edinburgh-based female-led theatre company Paprichoo is reviving its production of spy spoof Number, Please for EdFringe 2019 and has put out an open call for cast members.
Bohemians Creatives Call-out
Bohemians seek MD & Director for EdFringe:
Edinburgh’s Bohemian Lyric Opera Company has put out an open call for a Musical Director and a Creative Director for their annual Fringe concerts.
Arbery seeks EdFringe partners
Two 45 min shows sought:
Arbery Productions is offering two free, one-week slots at this year’s EdFringe to Edinburgh-based companies with “exciting and contemporary” shows to promote.
@JohnLewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted
★★☆☆☆ Indistinct chatter:
@JohnLewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted, from Simon Jay presented by James Seabright downstairs at the Newsroom, is a likeable but lightweight piece.
PQA productions
Persephone, The School Film, Blackout:
The establishment of a venue by the Pauline Quirke Academy means that – among the many other shows staged there – there is a showcase for the local youngsters attending the PQA.
Hamish Henderson: On The Radical Road
★★★★☆ Lively commitment:
Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road, from Theatre Objektiv at the Storytelling Centre, is a compelling illustration of the work of the celebrated writer, folklorist and internationalist.
Hotel
★★★★★ Thrilling and Mysterious:
Step into the mysterious hotel where not all it as it seems in this clever and haunting new play from Broadsword Theatre.
Bohemians Reimagined
★★★★☆ Entertaining:
The Bohemians add a new twist to some of musical theatre’s most-loved songs in Bohemians Reimagined at the Stockbridge Church.
Twelfth Night
★★★☆☆ Rumbustious jollity:
Charging at Shakespeare at full speed and with all comic guns blazing, Some Kind of Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night at Paradise in the Vault will win no prizes for subtlety but should please a wide audience.
Those Worrisome Sleeps
★★☆☆☆ Fractured fantasy:
Those Worrisome Sleeps, RFT’s excursion into fantasy and dark magic at Sweet Grassmarket, has an unusual atmosphere and a vigorous earnestness that never translate into a convincing whole.
