Amateurs
Apocalypse beyond the line
EGTG revive Walt McGough’s Chalk
Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group return this coming week with a revival of American playwright Walt McGough’s intense, 2015 sci-fi fable, Chalk, upstairs at the Assembly Roxy from Wed 8 to Sat 11 November 2023.
Grease
★★★★☆ Vibrant
Smart, precise and packing more energy than the Duracell Bunny on pep pills, Allegro’s production of Grease the Musical electrifies the Church Hill Theatre where it is playing all week.
Still Waiting…
Sequel to Waiting in the Wings for Church Hill
Still Waiting in the Wings, a charity concert to raise funds for brain tumour research, is taking place at the Church Hill Theatre this weekend, with an evening performance on Friday 13 and Saturday matinee on 14 October 2023.
Showcase 2023 – Up Where We Belong
★★★★☆ Nuanced
Showcase, the annual concert in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief, can certainly say it is “Up where we belong”, in the words of the Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner number that gives this year’s show its title.
Xmas Carol Casting Call
The Forth Act gets Dickensian for Christmas
Edinburgh amateur theatre company The Forth Act, is set to stage an adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at St Salvador’s Church in Stenhouse in the second week of December 2023.
Showcase is back
September song for Macmillan
Showcase is back where it belongs next week, up at the Church Hill Theatre, with its annual eclectic collection of tunes and dance numbers in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
3d Theatricals’ Cinderella Call Out
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella November 2024
Edinburgh amateur company Threepenny Theatricals is stepping into musical theatre for its seventh outing, in November 2024, when it will stage Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Church Hill Theatre.
A Comedy of Tenors
★★★★☆ Ludicrous
The Edinburgh Makars sail through the old-fashioned farce of A Comedy of Tenors at The Royal Scots Club with about as much pace, timing and sheer energy as you could hope.
Hamlet / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
★★★☆☆ Pacy and ★★★★☆ Slick
New Edinburgh amateur company Necessary Cat make their debut performances for the last week only of the fringe with the elegantly twinned pairing of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Lilies on the Land
★★★★☆ Beautiful drama
Following on from the success of their production of David Haig’s Pressure in April, Arkle Theatre have returned to World War 2 for Lilies on the Land as the early evening Fringe offering.
