Archive for April, 2014
Curious Incident Festival Theatre dates announced
Festival Theatre Edinurgh dates for the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time have been announced as part of a ten-venue national tour.
Giving Voice – Wordly Wisdom for All
For his round-up of spoken word events during the last weeks of April, resident poet J. A. Sutherland looks at events drowned out by the louder voices – in particular, those that don’t claim to be ‘spoken word’ but in which words are spoken and/or read aloud.
St Cecilia’s takes One Last Dance
St Cecilia’s Hall on the Cowgate, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built concert hall, is to relive its trendiest incarnation in May, ahead of being closed for a £6.5m transformation.
We’ll Always Have the Pleasance
Classic fringe hit and product of the Oran Mor play factory, Casablanca: the Gin Joint Cut, returns to Edinburgh for one performance only this Sunday.
A Perfect Stroke – Review
★★★★★ Perfectly stroked:
Tense and nervous drama of the kind that just won’t relax comes to the Traverse this week in the second instalment of the Spring 2014 season of lunch time theatre: A Play a Pie and a Pint.
Hairspray – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Depth and pleasure
It’s Good Morning Baltimore at the Edinburgh Academy’s theatre all this week where the young members of the Forth Children’s Theatre are getting it right with a super production of Hairspray.
New collective for Edin Companies at EdFringe
Edinburgh’s professional theatre companies staging shows at this year’s fringe are being invited to join a new collective, under the banner of Home Turf.
Wordly Wise – April Collisions
Now that the stooshie over spoken word performance has hopefully died down, here are this week’s collisions of culture and – even – science from resident perveyor of poetry J. A. Sutherland.
Princess Ida – Review
★★★★☆ Grace and frivolity:
Uplifting grace and outmoded comedy combine in equal measures for the Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s new production of Princess Ida which plays at the King’s all week.
Duty Free stars reunite for stage adaptation
Three of the original cast of eighties sitcom Duty Free are to be reunited for a stage adaptation, Last of the Duty Free which will tour the Edinburgh King’s in June.
