Jen McGregor
Heaven Burns the Roxy
McGregor wins 2018 Assembly Roxy Theatre Award:
Edinburgh-based playwright Jen McGregor has won this year’s Assembly Roxy Theatre Award for her script Heaven Burns, which will now be staged at the Roxy during this year’s Edinburgh fringe.
Flying in the Hothouse
High wire trapeze at Traverse Hothouse:
The Traverse is preparing for its annual Hothouse event, promoting four work-in-progress performances from Edinburgh-based companies, running this week from Tuesday 8 to Friday 11 November 2016.
Previously… 2015
History? Gie it laldy!
Edinburgh’s festival of history – Previously… – takes place this week, with a concentrated burst of performances, talks and events to bring history and the past into sharp relief.
What’s the Point?
A Punctuation Workshop for Actors:
Jen McGregor, the Edinburgh-based writer, playwright, director and performer is holding a workshop for actors to explore their use and understanding of punctuation in text.
Such a Nice Girl
✭✭✭✩✩ Sects and violence
Well acted, intriguingly written and largely successful, Such a Nice Girl can be counted as another striking contribution to the Just Festival by Black Dingo Productions.
Miss Julie
✭✭✭✭✩ Enticing scandal
In a new adaptation of August Strindberg by Jen McGregor, Black Dingo Productions return to the late 19th Century with a story about class, longing and scandal.
Creepie Stool – Review
Intriguing and doubly pertinent thanks to its re-staging in a dark corner of St Giles, Jen McGregor’s tale behind the tale of Jenny Geddes is a moving and provocative piece of theatre.
Review – 1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett
✭✭✩✩✩ Musically sound
Dress up, take part and join in at Anke’s, the Berlin night-club created in Summerhall, for this politically-charged production set on 30 January 1933, the night Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
Wiemer cabaret comes to Summerhall
Bursting into the new year, Edinburgh’s fringe companies are making their mark this week with a sensual, politically-charged production which makes direct comparisons between the rise of the NSP in 1930s Germany and Europe today.
Review – Invokation of Lady Macbeth
The opening image of Invokation is an arresting one. A large black pentagram is marked out on the floor, inhabited by two strange figures, one masked like a Venetian carnival figure and the other shrouded in black lace. A doom-laden soundscape heralds the beginning of some kind of black mass.
