Author: Rebecca Mahar
Dracula
★★★☆☆ Jukebox Ballet
Big Live sweep onto the Festival Theatre stage with a limited engagement of Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest, a new adaptation of the classic Bram Stoker horror. Promising lavish Gothic visuals and visceral storytelling, this is a ballet simmering with potential which is not yet fulfilled.
The Marriage of Figaro
★★★★☆ Delightful
Scottish Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro kicks off a limited engagement at the Festival Theatre in style, delivering a revival of Sir Thomas Allen’s 2010 production full of flair, humour, and outstanding performances.
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.
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