Author: Rebecca Mahar
More Songs For A (Brave) New World
★★★★☆ Charming
Richard Lewis dances into the Speakeasy at the Voodoo Rooms for a full run of the Fringe with More Songs For A (Brave) New World, a new set of musical parodies sure to make you laugh, groan, and look for more.
Pantomeo and Juliet
★★★☆☆ Star-cross’d
Pig’s Ear Productions, the group responsible for last year’s Panto Macbeth are back with another heavily abridged and somewhat embroidered Shakespeare in Pantomeo and Juliet, at Riddles Court for the last week of the Fringe.
Philip Simpson: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
★★☆☆☆ Becalmed
Fringe newcomer Philip Simpson brings a performance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to Just the Tonic at The Mash House for the final two weeks of the Fringe.
Sweeney Todd
★★★★☆ Vigorous
Captivate Theatre take on the Famous Spiegeltent with their production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street through the 24th, bringing Sondheim’s chilling musical, directed by Sally Lyall, to life beneath the canopy.
Our Martin in the Background
★★★☆☆ Reflective
Billed as “the queer love story Noël Coward didn’t write,” Mark Kydd brings new monodrama Our Martin in the Background for the final week of the Fringe only, on odd afternoons at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Come From Away
★★★★☆ Inspirational
Captivate Theatre bring a stirring rendition of Come From Away to the Bijou at Assembly Rooms through to the 24th, the Fringe debut of this groundbreaking, heart-wrenching musical.
King Lear
★★★★★ Unmissable
Pip Utton is back for a thirty-first year at the Fringe with his new monodrama King Lear, at the Pleasance Courtyard for the final two weeks of the fringe only.
A Pound of Flesh
★★★☆☆ Unjustified
Arbery Theatre brings A Pound of Flesh, a reimagining of a Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, to theSpace on the Mile for a full run of the Fringe in a production that asks: What if Portia never came to Venice?
The Bacchae
★★★☆☆ Ethereal
Glasgow-based Company of Wolves come howling into the Fringe with The Bacchae, a solo retelling of the myth of Dionysos, playing at Assembly Roxy for a full run.
Juliet and Romeo
★★★★☆ Strong
Edinburgh Youth Theatre tackles arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play this Fringe, rising to the challenge with Juliet and Romeo, a reimagined take on the tragedy of love, loss, and senseless violence.
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