Edinburgh Makars
The Game’s Afoot
✭✭✭✩✩ Elementary but entertaining:
There is solid, well-crafted entertainment in The Edinburgh Makars’ production of The Game’s Afoot or Holmes For The Holidays. Genuine thrills and spills are in short supply, but great pains have been taken to make a rewarding whole.
Fringe afoot for Makars
Makars audition for fringe:
The Edinburgh Makars have announced that their fringe production in 2015 will be The Game’s Afoot, or Holmes for the Holidays by Ken Ludvig.
A Touch of Danger
★★★☆☆ Satisfying thriller:
Short on genuine thrills but consistently enjoyable, the Edinburgh Makars’ production of Francis Durbridge’s A Touch of Danger is a somewhat contrived thriller made more interesting by considered performances.
Relatively Speaking
✭✭✭✩✩ Relatively successful
Slick, humorous and effective, the Edinburgh Makars’ production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking can be counted as a success even if it never quite manages to locate the darker streak that characterises his work.
Farce wins SCDA one-act fest
The St Serf’s Players’ Bangholm team has won the Edinburgh round of the SCDA one-act festival with a fast-paced farce: Over His Dead Body by Jack Booth.
SCDA One Act festival kicks off
The Scottish Community Drama Associations one act competition kicks off tonight, Thursday 20 February, with heats taking place across the country.
Review – My Three Angels
Slight and somewhat worthy, Sam and Bella Spewack’s 1950s comedy is given a muted but entertaining production by the Edinburgh Makars at the St Bride’s Centre this week.
Review – Come Blow Your Horn
✭✭✭✩✩ Enjoyable retro entertainment
The Edinburgh Makars provide a solid evening’s entertainment and some big laughs in their production of Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn at Murrayfield Parish Church Centre.
Challenging nights at SCDA One Act Festival
The SCDA’s three-evening festival of one act plays opens at St Serf’s in controversial mode on Valentines night with a Sixties examination of racism deemed so problematic it comes with its own contents warning.
Edinburgh Amateurs On The Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh-based amateur theatre companies appearing in the fringe:
It’s Edinburgh’s festival, and Edinburgh’s amateur and student theatre companies aren’t about to let anyone forget, with a programme of events which would make a pretty decent festival in their own right.
