Author: Rebecca Mahar
Out in the Hills Festival
Festival report
This month saw Pitlochry Festival Theatre launch Out in the Hills, a brand new festival celebrating all those LGBTQIA+, that “invites everyone to find new ways to look at the world, and each other.”
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.
Common Tongue
★★★★☆ Pure dead brilliant
Intimate and multi-layered, Common Tongue is a robust – occasionally explosive – exploration of voice, identity and society’s disapproval of those who don’t speak “proper”.
War Horse
★★★★★ Exquisite
The latest tour of the National Theatre’s War Horse has arrived at the Festival Theatre, in a production as gripping and vital today as when it premiered nearly twenty years ago.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
★★★★☆ Splendid
Stage Door Entertainment light up Portobello Town Hall with a bright and joyous production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, featuring an enormous local cast and stellar leading performances.
Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet
★★★★☆ Unpretentious
Suzy Eddie Izzard brings her solo version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to The Queen’s Hall for one night only on the UK leg of its world tour.
The Talented Mr Ripley
★★☆☆☆ Unsubstantiated
Mark Leipacher’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley for The Faction tours to the Festival Theatre until Saturday in a production that lacks conviction, logic, and the tension required to live up to its billing as a psychological thriller.
Beastie
★★★★☆ Speculative
Flagstone Theatre’s new work Beastie haunts the Scottish Storytelling Centre for one night only, bringing to life a contemporary legend of myth and memory exploring the echoes of the unexplained.
Fiddler on the Roof
★★★★★ Captivating
The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof, at the Festival Theatre all week, is a captivating rendition that is sombre, hopeful and humorous, in the best tradition of this classic musical.
Three Queens from the Opera
★★★★☆ Delightful
Michael Scott presents Three Queens from the Opera, playing a limited five show run at Stockbridge Church, is a delightful musical parody revue of operatic royalty.
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