Ben Winger
First Piano on the Moon (Revisited)
★★★★☆ Twinkling
First Piano on the Moon (Revisited), from Will Pickvance at Summerhall, makes an accomplished show even better.
Listings Mon 8 – Sun 14 April
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week…
Edinburgh schools have broken up for the Easter Holidays, and there is plenty for them to see over the next couple of weeks, as well as some strong material for an adult audience.
Theatrical Frontiers at Science Fest
Spotlight on Theatre at the Edinburgh Science Festival:
Edinburgh Science Festival is taking its cue from the moon landings of 50 years ago for its 2019 edition, with a series of themes which focus on frontiers of different kinds.
Foolish ways
VPT springs an April Fool:
Comic poet Pab Roberts is to join the writers and performers of the Village Pub Theatre this Wednesday, as the pop-up theatre company celebrate the first of April.
The BFG
✭✭✭✭✩ Whizzpopping fun:
The Lyceum is transformed into the magical world of the BFG where “all dreams is beginning”, through the imagination of Roald Dahl, adaptation of David Wood and direction of Andrew Panton.
13 Sunken Years
✭✭✭✭✩ River of emotion
Intriguingly stark, elusive and completely human, Stellar Quines and Lung Ha’s co-production of 13 Sunken Years has a poetic and mysteriously gripping quality.
Huxley’s Lab
★★★★☆ Profoundly relevant
A brave new collaboration has been born at Edinburgh University’s informatics building on Crichton Street. Edinburgh’s Lung Ha’s and Gridiron theatre companies have teamed up to create a piece of work challenging the scientists to think long and hard about what they are doing.
