Allan Wilson

Dead Girls Rising

Dead Girls Rising

★★★★☆ Emotional roller-coaster

Silent Uproar’s new touring production of Dead Girls Rising, at the Traverse for three performances, is an emotional roller-coaster of punk gig theatre focusing on two young women as they navigate a pathway through lives faced with misogyny and a violent patriarchy.

May 22 2024 | By | Reply More
David Bowie & Me: Parallel Lives

David Bowie & Me: Parallel Lives

★★★★☆ Hilarious reflections

Gilded Balloon’s presentation of Jack Docherty in David Bowie & Me: Parallel Lives takes a 1997 interview on Docherty’s TV chat show with his teenage hero, David Bowie as a starting point for some hilarious reflections on a childhood growing up in 1970s Edinburgh.

May 19 2024 | By | Reply More
Louder

Louder

Showcase: Most worthwhile

Framework Theatre’s Louder is a showcase for “semi-staged draft works of four brand new plays, all written & directed by early-career artists of marginalised genders.”

May 5 2024 | By | Reply More
All Shook Up

All Shook Up

★★★★☆ Hugely entertaining

Queen Margaret University Musical Theatre Society’s production of All Shook Up, at the Pleasance Theatre for four performances only, is a hugely entertaining jukebox musical from the book by Joe DiPietro.

May 3 2024 | By | Reply More
Who We Are Now

Who We Are Now

Work in Progress: 70s/80s vibe

Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s Who We Are Now, written and directed by Thaddeus Buttrey and produced by Ching Zhan, is a rock opera presented as a work in progress, that is already giving off a very enjoyable 70s/80s vibe.

Mar 7 2024 | By | Reply More
Listen to the Forest

Listen to the Forest

Work in Progress: Enjoyably thought-provoking.

Valeria Levi’s Listen to the Forest is an experimental dance performance combining movement, spoken word, music and innovative use of sign language. It is currently in the second stage of its development process, with hopes for a final stage later in the year, but is already an enjoyably thought-provoking production.

Mar 3 2024 | By | Reply More
Things I Know to be True

Things I Know to be True

★★★★☆ Captivating

Things I Know to be True by the Australian writer, Andrew Bovell, staged by Edinburgh University Theatre Company at the Bedlam to Saturday, is a less well-known piece, although Higher Drama students may know it intimately.

Feb 16 2024 | By | Reply More
Plinth

Plinth

★★★☆☆ Horrors of war

Writer and performer, Al Seed’s latest creation, Plinth, produced by his own company and Vanishing Point and touring to Manipulate, opens with Seed standing on a plinth giving a live rendition of a series of poses found in military statues.

Feb 5 2024 | By | Reply More
Last Rites

Last Rites

★★★★☆  Stunning performance

Following the award-winning success of Love Beyond (Act of Remembrance) in last year’s Manipulate Festival, Ramesh Meyyappan has produced another stunning performance in Last Rites, which he co-created with George Mann, who also directs this Ad Infinitum production.

Feb 5 2024 | By | Reply More
The House

The House

★★★★☆ Darkly comical

Danish director and puppeteer Sofie Krog introduces The House by reminding the audience that “walls have ears” and that the darkly comical tale will be told by the walls of the Warehouse Family Funeral Home.

Feb 5 2024 | By | Reply More