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Rocky Horror Show

Rocky Horror Show

★★★★☆ Still Rocking

While the new US President was busy signing an order making it clear what he thinks about the trans community, a sweet transvestite transexual from Transylvania was taking a different approach as Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returned to the Playhouse with its customary mix of swagger, glitz, innuendo and audience call backs.

Jan 21 2025 | By | Reply More
No Place Called Home

No Place Called Home

★★★☆☆ Climate crisis drama

Whilst the production team and cast of No Place Called Home are predominantly students, ThirdCulture Productions are not a student led company. At a time when cuts to arts funding in Scotland are making the news again, it’s refreshing to see current and former students committing their immediate future to Edinburgh.

Aug 24 2024 | By | Reply More
Eleanor

Eleanor

★★★★★ Historical insight

For every figure whose name echoes throughout history there are the descendants destined to spend their lives living in the shadow of their ancestors.

Aug 15 2024 | By | Reply More
The Ruffian on the Stair

The Ruffian on the Stair

★★☆☆☆ Falls short

For the second of their Fringe productions, EGTG revive The Ruffian on the Stair, a little-known Joe Orton play, sixty years after it debuted as a BBC radio play.

Aug 12 2024 | By | Reply More
It’s a Sheet Show

It’s a Sheet Show

★★★★☆ Strong debut

It’s a Sheet Show, Fools and Thieves Fringe debut in a coproduction with The Counterminers, is set in and around a bed. However, there’s nothing tired about the play – or the production – as a series of short scenes track a relationship from its early moments to its demise in a little over fifty minutes.

Aug 4 2024 | By | Reply More
The Drifters’ Girl

The Drifters’ Girl

★★★☆☆ Stories still unsung

The Drifters Girl, at the Playhouse this week as part of a UK tour, provides plenty of Drifters hits, hung around the story of Faye Treadwell, who managed the group up until 2001.

May 3 2024 | By | Reply More
Escaped Alone

Escaped Alone

★★★★☆ Environmental dystopia

Following its Scottish premiere at The Tron earlier this month Escaped Alone, Caryl Churchill’s dystopian play that had its UK premiere at the Royal Court in 2016, comes to the Traverse for five performances only.

Mar 14 2024 | By | Reply More
Boris and Sergey’s Christmas Cabaret

Boris and Sergey’s Christmas Cabaret

★★☆☆☆ Puppets unstrung

Thirteen years on from their first production, the multi-talented Flabbergast Theatre are reviving their most successful and enduring creations, Balkan bad boys Boris and Sergey, for a show billed as their ‘very unique take on A Christmas Carol’ at Assembly Roxy.

Dec 13 2023 | By | Reply More
Ghosts of North Leith

Ghosts of North Leith

★★★★☆ A haunting tale

Following a trial reading at Leith Festival earlier this year, the Ghosts of North Leith have been brought home in Citadel Arts Group’s production, which returns them to the church near by the cemetery where they are buried.

Nov 15 2023 | By | Reply More
FLIP!

FLIP!

★★★★★ Flipping Fantastic

Racheal Ofori’s FLIP! – at Summerhall to Saturday – combines comedy with social commentary in a play which successfully brings the breathless charge of social media to the stage.

Nov 1 2023 | By | Reply More