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Passionate voices
Women’s stories take centre stage in Passion Play
The script for this year’s Passion Play in Princes Street Gardens West tells the Easter story as always, but is inspired by the injustices still suffered by women around the world to this day.
PPP: Hotdog
★★★☆☆ Powerful
Hotdog by Ellen Ritchie, this week’s lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, is a powerful if uneven production, extremely well performed.
Preview & Listings Mon 25 – Sun 31 March 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
It’s another very varied week, with a couple of works in progress on Monday and Saturday; a wild take on Wilde; and two adaptations from Emma Rice: a Brief Encounter with EPT, and the final week of Blue Beard.
Atina’s Actress hunt
EdFringe callout for Kingdon Theatre/Atina Arts
Kingdom Theatre / Atina Arts have put out an open call for two actresses for their production of Sinatra: The Final Curtain during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.
EPT’s Encounter
EPT take on Emma Rice adaptation of Coward
Emma Rice’s adaptation of Brief Encounter, the David Lean 1945 film, is brought to the Church Hill Theatre stage by Edinburgh People’s Theatre for four performances only, this coming week, Wed 27 to Sat 30 March, 2024.
A Taste of Honey
★★★☆☆ Troubling
A pair of perfectly pitched performances ensure that the EUTC’s production of A Taste of Honey at the Bedlam, to Friday, provides a more than creditable account of Shelagh Delaney’s script.
PPP: Pushin’ Thirty
★★★☆☆ Delicate
Traverse: Tue 19 – Sat 23 Mar 2024
Review by Hugh Simpson
Pushin’ Thirty at the Traverse is a delicate and evocative piece that does not always convince.
Strange Town’s tidal trilogy
Youth company celebrates 15th year with trilogy at Traverse
Youth company Strange Town is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and will be staging a trilogy of new plays, in the theme of Tides, performed by its young companies at the Traverse in June.
Preview & Listings Mon 18 – Sun 24 March 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
In another varied week of theatre, with ten shows on offer, the big opener is Rob Drummond’s brilliant Don’t. Make. Tea. from Birds of Paradise at the Traverse for two nights only ahead a stint in London.
Mother Clap’s Molly House
★★★★☆ Gloriously vulgar
The EUTC deliver a fully frank and deliciously frivolous take on Mother Clap’s Molly House, Mark Ravenhill’s dark comedy with songs, which plays the Bedlam to Saturday.
