Archive for November, 2023
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
★★★★☆ Powerful
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, from Leitheatre at the Church Hill, is a complex piece of pitch-black satire discharged with skill.
Hansel and Gretel
★★★☆☆ Refreshing
What larks are to be had up at the Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre this week, where the St Serf’s Players are staging Norman Robbins’s pantomime adaptation of Hansel and Gretel.
The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan
★★★★☆ Highflying
The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan turns out to be about 98% pantomime and 2% Peter Pan, but is tremendous fun nevertheless.
Listings Mon 27 Nov – Sun 3 Dec 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Well here we are, well and truly stuck into prime Panto season, with nothing but The Prime of Miss Jean Brody at the Church Hill Theatre (Wed – Sat, tickets) to keep us focussed.
A Christmas Carol
★★★★☆ Splendidly seasonal
Guy Masterson’s A Christmas Carol is a splendidly seasonal production of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of greed and redemption in a world of extremes of wealth and poverty, playing at the Roxy until Friday.
The Snow Queen
★★★★☆ Epic
The Snow Queen at the Lyceum provides thrills, humour and imaginative theatricality. Morna Young’s adaptation (directed by Cora Bissett, with music by Finn Anderson) could not be staged in 2020 for obvious reasons.
Faint plays Munro’s Katherine
Catriona Faint takes title role in fifth James Play
The title role of Katherine Hamilton in Rona Munro’s latest James Play, James V: Katherine, will be played by Catriona Faint, who was recently seen as Jonathan in the NTS production of Dracula – Mina’s Reckoning.
Listings: Mon 20 – Sun 26 November 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Time to take a deep breath in the few days of calm, before the storm of Christmas goodies hits stages on Thursday, when the Lyceum is first out of the traps with The Snow Queen (tickets). With The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan at the Festival Theatre (tickets) hard on its tail on Saturday.
Xmas Listings 2023
Pantos and Christmas Shows in Edinburgh
It’s almost panto time again, so here’s a big list of all the Christmas shows, pantomimes and other shows we know of in Edinburgh!
No Spray No Lay
Work in Progress
What a piece of fun is to be had with No Spray No Lay, a new musical staged as a work-in-progress in the decidedly fringe-flavoured lower hall of the Augustine United Church for four performances only.
