Archive for February, 2014
Brigadoon – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Solidly entertaining
Romance and kitsch are present in equal proportions in Southern Light Opera’s staging of Brigadoon at the Edinburgh King’s until Saturday.
Singin’ In The Rain – Review
✭✭✭✭✭ A bigger splash
There is more than the promised 12,000 litres of water covering the stage at the Festival Theatre – spectacle, enjoyment and sheer old-fashioned good fun come flooding in too.
St Stephens Playfair Trust bid fails
The St Stephens Centre, the one-time church in Edinburgh’s New Town which has been used as a fringe venue since 1966 and a community resource since 1992 has been sold to an individual purchaser.
Prudencia’s coming home
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, the pub-set, site-specific hit by David Greig and Wils Wilson for the National Theatre of Scotland is to play limited dates at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy theatre this March.
Flyte to the finish
Leith’s Percy Poets have had to call it a night after their eponymous pub, the Persevere on Easter Road, turned its lounge over completely to the provision of provender.
Brigadoon looms out the mist again
Edinburgh’s oldest amateur musical theatre company take over the King’s this week with a new production of Brigadoon, the musical about a Highland village which appears only one day every century.
Farce wins SCDA one-act fest
The St Serf’s Players’ Bangholm team has won the Edinburgh round of the SCDA one-act festival with a fast-paced farce: Over His Dead Body by Jack Booth.
SCDA One Act festival kicks off
The Scottish Community Drama Associations one act competition kicks off tonight, Thursday 20 February, with heats taking place across the country.
Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Powerful and polished
Big, bold and aiming for the highest possible standards, A-Team Productions’ first offering is very impressive indeed.
Don Pasquale – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Don miss it
When the overture is still being played and an opera audience is already laughing out loud, the signs are all good for an evening which will be something of a treat.
