Archive for April, 2025
Go Back for Murder
★★★★☆ Convincing
Go Back for Murder, Edinburgh Theatre Arts’ first stab at Agatha Christie, is a well considered and very well performed affair. If it drags a little at times, it always convinces nonetheless.
CATS add panto to awards
Scottish theatre awards set June date at Trav
The annual CATS ceremony for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland is to return to Edinburgh’s Traverse on June 8, with a new award celebrating Scotland’s pantomime productions.
Listings Mon 28 April – Sun 4 May 2025
Listings for the week to Sunday 4 May 2025:
It’s a good week for Edinburgh’s amateur theatre companies with three diverse plays on stage. Then there’s glitzy world tour press night and a Scottish Ballet biggie.
Living With the Dead
★★★☆☆ Thoughtful
Not So Nice! Theatre Company’s latest offering, Living With the Dead by Cosette Bolt at the Augustine United Church, confronts the reality of death in its many forms, reflecting on its sameness.
A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here
★★★★☆ Fascinating
ThisEgg’s A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here, at the Traverse for two nights only, is a compelling piece of theatre and well deserving of the Fringe First it won last year.
Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood
★★★★☆ Glorious
Looking For Me Friend – The Music of Victoria Wood, at the Traverse for two performances only, is a fitting celebration of a national treasure as well as a well structured and touchingly personal piece.
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
★★★★☆ Delightful
Isobel McArthur’s Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) bursts out of the servants’ stairs and into the parlour with straight-talk and song, bringing irreverent Austenian charm to the Festival Theatre on the Edinburgh stop of its current UK & Ireland tour.
Listings Mon 21 – Sun 27 April 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
A select listing this week as one biggie opens, another returns and braw new local company puts on some new work.
Calamity Jane
★★★★☆ Wholesome fun
Musical comedy classic Calamity Jane rolls into the Festival Theatre this week all the way from the Black Hills of Deadwood, Dakota. With it’s gun slingin’, high tales and hoedowns – it’s a real fun ride through the Wild West.
PPP: Ivor
★★☆☆☆ Well-meaning
Ivor by Jennifer Adam, the last in the current season of Òran Mór’s Play, Pie and a Pint at the Traverse, is a lively but ultimately confused piece of theatre.
