Adam House
Festen
✭✭✭✭✩ Dark matters:
There is a fierce intensity to the Grads’ Festen at Adam House, in a consistently strong production that crackles with energy.
August: Osage County
★★★☆☆ Brave attempt
Some excellent performances and high production values give The Grads’ production of August: Osage County interest and a degree of merit, but overall it can only be seen as a qualified success.
Edinburgh Am Dram Rising
Fans of Edinburgh’s amateur theatre and musical scene are having a thrillingly diverse week of it, with three productions opening tonight and tomorrow: August: Osage County, Me and My Girl, and Takin’ Over the Asylum.
Review – Julius Caesar
Thought-provoking and challenging, Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s Julius Caesar is an intriguing if ultimately somewhat uneven production.
Review – Jerusalem
★★★★★ Brave and timely:
There’s a rich, dense texture to the Grads Scottish premiere of Jerusalem, at the Adam House Theatre until Saturday. It has a mythic feel inspired by Blake’s hymn Jerusalem, the text of which frames the piece as if it were being stalked by Gog and Magog.
Review – Six Degrees of Separation
★★★★☆ Multilayered
Responsible for popularising the idea that every person in the world is just six connections from every other, John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation is a play about greed and envy; about what happens when those six connections are reduced to just one.
Æ Review – Glengarry Glen Ross
* * Adam House Theatre By Thom Dibdin Chunky and muscular, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross brings out the naturally bilious language and atavistic tendencies of hard working men on the front-line of American dream at the end of the 20th Century. This is the world of real-estate salesmen. A pack of beings whose own […]
Æ News – Roxy Closure forces Glengarry Move
Venue Closes – But ThreeMile Show Goes On By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh-based ThreeMile Theatre Company have announced that their production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross will go ahead on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 November, but at the changed location of the Adam House Theatre. The performance time will now be 7.30pm. The production […]
Æ Review – Agatha Christie’s The Hollow
★★☆☆☆
There is nothing sleepy about the Hollow to which the Angkatells have retired in this country house weekend murder mystery from the Makars, which is at Adam House until Saturday.
Connect
Connect with us on the following social media platforms.