Mark Kydd
Don Quixote Unbound
★★★★☆ Lucid dreaming:
Michael Daviot’s Don Quixote Unbound at Sweet Grassmarket is a wonderfully involving, enchanting and thought-provoking example of the arts of storytelling and theatre making.
1917: A Phantasmagoria
★★★★★ Essence of Fringe:
Intelligent, driven and ridiculously entertaining, Michael Daviot’s historical one-man-show 1917: A Phantasmagoria is as close to the ideal Fringe show as you could imagine.
Book Fest on Stage
Theatre-related events at EIBF 2017:
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has ramped up its theatre-related offering for this year’s festival, even as it increases the total number of events to over 1,000.
Stories of the Sea
★★★★☆ Factual:
There’s a braw bundle of insight to be had in Citadel Arts Group’s double bill of plays that explore some of the varying aspects of the women of Leith’s relationships with the sea.
A port full of Theatre
Leith Festival theatre goes to its roots:
There is a sense of getting right into the community from to the three major theatre offerings at this year’s Leith Festival, with new work from Citadel, Spartaki and Theatre Imperative.
Two Bros Fundraiser
Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour raises money for show:
Mark Kydd and Laverne Edmonds are staging a special edition of the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour on Monday 9 Feb, to raise money for the spring tour of Kydd’s play: There Were Two Brothers.
When The War Came Home
✭✭✭✩✩ Local heroism:
Big-hearted but uneven, the panoramic sweep of When The War Came Home never lacks ambition but only intermittently achieves maximum power.
WW1 Home Front
People’s voice heard in powerful new play:
The people of Edinburgh are at the forefront of When the War Came Home, a new play about the first world war being staged this coming week by Citadel Arts Group and the WEA Scotland.
An Island Between Heaven And Earth
✭✭✭✩✩ Slow but sure
Thoughtful and intelligent, AJL Productions’ An Island Between Heaven And Earth takes its time to get going but is well worth seeing.
Once Was Human – Review
✭✭✩✩✩ Opening the door
Joel Mason’s Once Was Human, his brief, haunting but somewhat didactic play about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is at the Hidden Door art festival this week.
