Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company
The Fairy Queen
★★★☆☆ Dreamlike
Edinburgh Studio Opera’s production of The Fairy Queen, at the Pleasance until Thursday, takes on the many challenges of Henry Purcell’s much-adapted augmentation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Romeo and Juliet
★★★☆☆ Expansive
Romeo and Juliet, from the Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company at the Pleasance, is a production on a grand scale. There is much about it that is praiseworthy, but in the end its ambition does prove a disadvantage.
Much Ado About Nothing
★★★☆☆ Energetic
The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Pleasance is a good-natured if uneven production.
The Taming of the Shrew
★★★★☆ Lively
Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Pleasance is a witty and intelligent take on an endlessly troubling play.
Julius Caesar
★★★☆☆ Uneven
Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar, in the Teviot Debating Hall, is as unpredictable as it is ambitious. It is by turn sublime and ridiculous, well thought out at times and inexplicable at others.
The Macbeth Inquiry
★★★☆☆ Hit-and-miss
The Macbeth Inquiry, from Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company at theSpace @ Niddry Street for the middle week of the Fringe, is a decidedly uneven but enjoyable production.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
★★★☆☆ Spacey
Brief, but never tedious, the jazz-infused production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company at Assembly Roxy is packed with great ideas and quirky detail.
EUSC take on the Shrew
New look at Shakespeare’s troubling work:
Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company is this week taking on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew – a tricky choice given the misogyny which underpins its comedy, but one which the company is tackling head on.
Much ado about Sicily
EU Shakespeare Soc’s take on Much Ado About Nothing
The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company is taking on Much Ado About Nothing for its first foray into the Fringe, with a six night run at theSpace @ Niddry Street.
EdFringe Theatre – Student companies
Edinburgh’s student & youth theatre companies on the Fringe:
There are more shows made by Edinburgh-based companies at this year’s fringe than all the shows at the 1972 Edinburgh fringe put together. This page lists all the theatre shows made by youth and student companies.
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