Christmas Show 2013

Review – The Edibles

Review – The Edibles

✭✭✭✭✭ Perfectly pitched

Care and attention to details make Grinagog Theatre’s magnificent little production something very special as it flits into the Scottish Storytelling Centre for just four shows in two days.

Dec 23 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
Review – Little Red Riding Hood

Review – Little Red Riding Hood

Magic and fairy tale collide in this musical adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, set in the land of twice-upon-a-time and showing at the St Andrew Square Spiegeltent as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas, until January 5.

Dec 23 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
Review – The Sleeping Beauty

Review – The Sleeping Beauty

✭✭✭✩✩ Beautifully traditional
Cheerful, traditional and heart-warming, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production of The Sleeping Beauty is a pantomime with the broadest possible appeal.

Dec 20 2013 | By | Reply More
Review – Pianomime

Review – Pianomime

Frothy but lacking any real drive, Pianomime is a diverting but ultimately unsatisfactory hour at Summerhall.

Dec 17 2013 | By | Reply More
Sleeping Beauty returns after 28 years…

Sleeping Beauty returns after 28 years…

When Beauty takes to the stage in the Edinburgh People’s Theatre production of The Sleeping Beauty at the end of this week, it will be in the role in which she made her panto debut aged just nine months.

Dec 17 2013 | By | 2 Replies More
Review – The Leithtivity

Review – The Leithtivity

Broad swipes and accurate strikes make the Village Pub Theatre’s first venture into pantomime a mixed bag, as it retells the nativity with a scabrous, 20th century Leith twist.

Dec 17 2013 | By | Reply More
VPT goes Panto-crazy

VPT goes Panto-crazy

The Village Pub Theatre has announced its Christmas offering, to be staged at the Village Pub Monday-Wednesday next week.

Dec 13 2013 | By | Reply More
Review – The Improvised Panto!

Review – The Improvised Panto!

The route was convoluted and the going sometimes harder than it should have been, but Impro FX brought the happy ending home on the opening night of their improvised panto. Eventually.

Dec 10 2013 | By | Reply More
Review – A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime

Review – A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime

Accomplished and enjoyable, Balerno Theatre Company’s staging of A Christmas Carol – The Pantomime is an entertaining if ultimately somewhat patchy production.

Dec 5 2013 | By | Reply More
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

✭✭✭✭✩ Dickens of a good time
Radiating good humour and Christmas cheer, the Lyceum’s production of A Christmas Carol provides highly successful seasonal entertainment.

Nov 30 2013 | By | Reply More