Scottish Storytelling Centre
Trust Me & Wasted
★★★★☆ (Trust Me) & ★★★☆☆ (Wasted)
The Festival of Peer Inspiration is a chance to see two pieces of theatre of a kind which tours widely through Scotland’s schools, but which are rarely even acknowledged in the wider theatre community.
It’s a Wonderful Life
★★★☆☆ Half-life:
They say your life flashes before you before you die and that’s certainly the impression left by Floating Brick Theatre’s version of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Storytelling Centre this week.
Animals
★★★★☆ Quirky:
Gentle as the velvet of a puppy’s ear, yet unafraid to take a deadpan gawp at a recently demised goldfish, Animals, Greg Sinclair’s examination of childhood tales of animals is a constant revelation of delight and surprise.
Arandora Star
★★★★☆ Poignant tragedy:
In this reverent, haunting and heartfelt production of Arandora Star at the Scottish Storytelling Centre to Saturday, Theatre Objectiv both condemns and exonerates in their efforts to give a voice to an oft-forgotten past.
At A Stretch
★★★★★ Energetic:
At a Stretch is a comedy physical theatre show, with two people dancing, doing gymnastics and jumping on poles.
Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth
★★★★☆ Scary and funny:
Is this is a Dagger? is a one-man show by Andy Cannon and is a version of Macbeth. It is at the Storytelling Centre until this weekend. It’s definitely for over-eights, or maybe over-nines.
Where The Crow Flies
★★★★☆ Complex:
Subtly written and excellently performed, Where The Crow Flies, In Motion Theatre Company’s touring production, is a lucid and compelling tale.
Bring me the head of Johnny Murdock
✭✭✭✭✩ Slick trick:
Sharp, dynamic and oozing attitude, Strange Town Youth Theatre bring all the dynamism of cinema action onto the Netherbow stage for one night only.
Tragic Magic
✭✭✩✩✩ Promising fusion
Part of the Edinburgh International Magic Festival, this one man show by Michael Neto fuses together magic with theatre in the story of a man who has to make a choice between the thing that he loves and the one that he loves.
Review – The Edibles
✭✭✭✭✭ Perfectly pitched
Care and attention to details make Grinagog Theatre’s magnificent little production something very special as it flits into the Scottish Storytelling Centre for just four shows in two days.
