Author: Hugh Simpson
Lear
★★★★☆ Compelling
Lear at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a powerful production, with Maureen Beattie’s towering central performance backed up by an excellent cast.
The Effect
★★★★☆ Compellingly performed
The Effect by Northern Assignment, upstairs at Assembly Roxy as part of a series of one-nighters in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is an intelligent production, staged with care and performed with distinction.
The Burns Project
★★★★☆ Nuanced
The Burns Project, by James Clements (in collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland) at the Lyceum, is an engaging, beautifully performed piece full of both vitality and subtlety.
Book Fest in Performance
BookFest: Booking opens Thurs 28 June.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, now firmly established at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in Lauriston Place, has its usual quota of performance and theatre-related events in 2026.
Lyceum at Home on Stage
★★★★☆ Inviting
The Lyceum’s At Home on Stage provides an affecting series of performances, losing a little when divorced from their original settings, but convincing nevertheless.
PPP: The Hen Night
★★★★☆ Excellent ensemble
The Hen Night by Debbie Hannan, the last in the current season of A Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at Assembly Roxy, is a wonderfully performed piece that is great fun as well as deceptively serious.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
★★★★☆ Beautifully funny
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, ‘the world’s foremost gender-skewering, comic ballet company’ return to Edinburgh for two nights at the Festival Theatre. And they bring fun and a high standard of dance.
Getting Along With Gran
★★★★☆ Enjoyable
Getting Along With Gran, from Citadel Arts at North Edinburgh Arts for two days only, is a vibrant and thoroughly enjoyable piece of community-focused theatre.
Shall Roger Casement Hang?
★★★★☆ Impressive debut
Shall Roger Casement Hang? at Hill Street until Friday, is a convincing and intimate piece of theatre realised with great care.
PPP: The Corinthian
★★★★☆ Necessary
The Corinthian by Joe McCann, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at Assembly Roxy, is an engrossing, splendidly performed and utterly timely piece of theatre.
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