Allan Stewart
Canned Laughter
★★★★☆ Canny:
Pathos and superbly performed comedy combine in Canned Laughter at the King’s all week until Saturday.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
★★★★☆ Comic spectacle:
Professional pantomime is not the place to go for new theatrical techniques or stunning insights into the human condition.
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show
✭✭✭✩✩ Not enough Variety:
There is much to enjoy in Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show at the King’s this week, but overall this mixed bag will do little to bring the genre back to life.
Aladdin
✭✭✭✭✩ Flashes of brilliance:
Shiny, snappy and energetic, Aladdin at the King’s sacrifices some of the traditional interaction of a panto, but remains a highly satisfying production.
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Pure showbiz delight
Looking at this week’s offering at the King’s Theatre, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s panto season. There are star turns by Andy Gray and Grant Stott. A supporting cast of talented young lads and lasses. A speciality act or two…
Review – Peter Pan
★★★★☆ Fantastic family fun
Big, bold and completely shameless, this year’s King’s pantomime, Peter Pan, is certainly one of the best seen there for years.
Preview for the week: 11 – 17 January, 2010
The snow might be thawing, but Edinburgh’s stages are only slowly beginning to heat up – the first of 2010’s new productions opens at the Royal Lyceum on Saturday and a 19 year-old Fringe mega-hit returns in its latest incarnation to the Festival Theatre. First up, the week marks the end of the line for […]
Pantomime Review – Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates
Feisty and energetic, Paul Elliott’s take on Crusoe sets out from Edinburgh in a well-conceived and delivered local plot. Grant Stott’s villainous Pirate Blackheart is a local radio DJ in mid-life crisis. Jo Freer’s goodie is a magical mermaid – and Blackheart’s estranged wife – with attitude and motor-mouth to match. If this tempers the […]
