Caroline Hood
The Yeomen Of The Guard
★★★☆☆ Assured
Cat-Like Tread return to Paradise in Augustines with an assured and beautifully directed production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard for the final week of the fringe.
Trial by Jury
★★★★☆ Spritely
Cat-Like Tread presents a spritely rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan’s one-act comic opera, Trial by Jury that entirely fulfils its brief: light, fun, and more than a little ridiculous.
The Steamie
★★★★☆ No minced opportunities
First staged in January, The Brunton’s production of The Steamie comes to Loretto School Theatre for a Fringe encore.
Macbeth
★★☆☆☆ Darkly modest:
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Company take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Assembly Roxy this week, in a production which leans into all the horror and gore the tragedy reveals.
The Sorcerer
★★★★☆ What larks:
For careful execution and straightforward fun, it is difficult to imagine many recent productions of Gilbert and Sullivan have beaten Cat-Like Tread’s The Sorcerer at Paradise in Augustines.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
★★★★☆ Resonant:
By turns bitingly sharp and believably messy, the Grads’ production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf has real emotional power.
Grads Thrust for Albee
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on sale:
Tickets for the Grads’ production of Edward Albee’s 1962 hit, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Assembly Roxy in May have gone on sale.
Legally Blonde – The Musical
★★★☆☆ Energetic:
Lacking nothing in sheer relentless drive, the Bohemians’ production of Legally Blonde – The Musical at the King’s has little in the way of subtlety or contrast. As a result, it is great fun but fails to convince completely.
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 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
★★☆☆☆ Cartoonish capers come awry:
Frothy, frivolous and fun, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a wryly comic look at the treadmill of big corporate enterprise in post war America.
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