Archive for February, 2014
Rantin – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Solidarity in storytelling
Possibilities splurge out from Kieren Hurley’s Rantin, which enjoyed a one-night stand at Summerhall while on its month-long tour around the country under the auspices of the National Theatre of Scotland.
Arcadia – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Thoroughly enthralling
Big, wordy and endlessly fascinating, Tom Stoppard’s modern classic Arcadia is given an entertaining revival at the Bedlam theatre for a four night run.
Wordly Wisdom for a short month
Resident poet J. A. Sutherland reports back on recent goings-down in the world of Edinburgh’s spoken word events – and keeps us up-to-date with its goings-on in a month short in days, but not in spoken words…
Yellow Moon – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Thunderstruck
The EUTC give a thunderous showing of David Greig’s Yellow Moon at the Bedlam, with a production that flows seamlessly through Greig’s dark, poetic, script.
Evita – review
✭✭✭✩✩ Force & Frailty
A real sense of human frailty pervades the latest touring revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s late-seventies hit Evita to arrive at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
