Dominic Hill
Edinburgh On The Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh-based professional companies appearing in the fringe:
It’s Edinburgh’s festival, no matter what the nay-saying nutters who comment on the Scotsman’s website might write. More tickets are sold to Edinburgh residents than to anyone else and it would seem that every Edinburgh-based theatre company, whether professional or amateur, has a show on.
Theatre Review – Any Given Day
* * * * Traverse Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin Thunderous in its dark, brooding intensity and emotionally sapping outcome, Linda McLean’s pair of conjoined plays for the Traverse is a twisted night of theatre which explores our fear of the unknown with a chilling eye for detail. This is not fun-show, good-times entertainment. Indeed, […]
Cream of Edinburgh’s theatrical talent top CATS nominations
By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh’s theatres and production companies have made a strong showing in the shortlist for this year’s Critics Awards for the Theatre in Scotland, picking up 15 of the 40 possible nominations, in 8 of the 10 categories. Leading the field is the Traverse, with six nominations for last Autumn’s The Dark Things, […]
Thomas casts off spells for spell in suburbia
By Thom Dibdin Sian Thomas, who played Amelia Bones in the Harry Potter movies, has just been announced to play Stevie in the Traverse’s Scottish premiere of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?. John Ramm, who played Doc Golightly alongside Anna Friel in the Theatre Royal’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is her husband, Martin, […]
Theatre Review – Heaven
* * * * A Play, A Pie and A Pint at The Traverse Brief in length but resonating long after the play has finished, Simon Stephens’ Heaven is the perfect opener for the Traverse’s five-week season of lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie and A Pint. It is so brief, and so intensely played […]
Preview for the week: 1 – 7 March, 2010
By Thom Dibdin Things are looking a little brighter on Edinburgh’s stages this week with a spot of hot football action down at the Bongo Club, always a great venue for fringe shows, TV’s Dinnerladies making their stage transfer up at the King’s, a quartet of classical ballets coming to the Playhouse and the new […]
Traverse’s Hill directs Radio 3’s Seagull
By Thom Dibdin The Traverse’s artistic director, Dominic Hill, has directed Chekhov’s The Seagull for BBC Radio 3, with Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins heading up a cast of leading Scottish actors.
Review – The Dark Things
★★★★☆:
Porno, snuff and pretentious art are the dark things which director Dominic Hill and writer Ursula Rani Sarma are conjuring with at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre.
