Archive for October, 2025
Miss Saigon
★★★★☆ Epic
Miss Saigon, the tragic and epic tale of love and loss during the Vietnam war, sweeps into the Playhouse this week in a dazzling new production from Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh.
Immaculate
★★★☆☆ Entertaining
Immaculate, by the EUTC at the Bedlam until Friday, is a spirited attempt at a play that never quite lives up to an intriguing premise.
Strawmoddie strikes ten
Scratch Night at St Brides
Edinburgh’s grassroots theatre company Strawmoddie celebrates its tenth anniversary this week with a scratch night including script-in-hand extracts from its first four productions.
ELC tests the market on Brunton replacement
Preliminary Market Consultation issued for Brunton Hall
The East Lothian Council has issued a Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) for Musselburgh’s Brunton Hall, in an attempt to find suppliers, funders, or developers who are capable of delivering a new theatre.
PPP: Righ Iasgair: The Fisher King
★★★☆☆ Jarring
Righ Iasgair: The Fisher King by Kenny Boyle, the last in the current series of the Traverse’s presentations of Òran Mór’s A Play, A Pie & A Pint, is an evocative presentation of Scottish language and culture that fails to carry off a drastic shift in tone.
Batshit
★★★★★ Visually haunting
Batshit is a powerful reflection on the treatment of women’s mental health, running at Traverse Theatre until Saturday 25 as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Little Women
★★★☆☆ Ambitious
The EUTC’s Little Women, at the Bedlam until Saturday, is a carefully staged production featuring stand-out performances in the four title roles.
To Kill A Mockingbird
★★★★★ Compelling
All rise for the UK & Ireland tour of To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s incisive adaptation of Harper Lee’s epochal novel at the Festival Theatre all week, and the Glasgow King’s for the first week in November.
Mary, Queen of Scots
★★★★☆ Darkly compelling
Scottish Ballet returns to the Festival Theatre with their thrilling, modern reimagining of one of history’s most famous rivalries – the complex relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Seagull
★★★★☆ Impressive
The Seagull, at the Lyceum until 1 November, is the first production under the new regime of James Brining, and is an undoubted success.
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