Edinburgh
Review – Gaydonia
The Luvvies provide a good – but not exactly great – take on Gary Pedlar’s Gaydonia in this world premier production
Brunton launches adult drama group
Brunton Theatre Players to take to stage By Thom Dibdin The Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh has launched a new amateur theatre group for adults to add to its existing performance group for young people – the Brunton Youth Theatre. The Brunton Theatre Players will meet weekly at the at Brunton Theatre rehearsal room, with the […]
Review – Hamlet
* * * St Brides Community Centre Review by Thom Dibdin Exciting and satisfying touches to the casting of the Grads’ solid version of Hamlet provide an extra lift to the production which is running at St Brides all week until Saturday. Here is Hamlet played pretty much as straight revenge tragedy – by the […]
Review – Watching the Detective
★★★★☆
They have saved the best until the very last at the Traverse’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint season of lunchtime theatre, with Paddy Cunneen’s gem of a piece: Watching the Detective, performed by Stuart Bowman.
Review – Copacabana
★★★☆☆ Passionate:
The music and the passion are right in place in Allegro’s bright production of Copacabana at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday. But while the fashion is frothy – and the dresses are, on occasion, “cut down to there” – it doesn’t go as far in that direction as it might.
Grads fly in Sky Arts’ Stagestruck
Voting open to get Grads through to next round of Stagestruck By Thom Dibdin The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, known as the Grads, has made it into the qualifying round of Sky Arts’ amateur theatre company competition, Stagestruck. The final prize of the competition is to stage a production in London’s West End. In the […]
Laughing around the Edinburgh Fringe: Day Three…
Futureproof, Comedy lunch, Sans Hotel and the World According to Bertie By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh was laughing on Sunday. It laughed in the rain, still streaming down, it laughed with the comedy mob, it laughed with the locals and with the visitors and it reserved its biggest laugh for the theatre. It was the day […]
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.
Æ News – Forest Cafe building sale imminent
Estate agents, Graham & Sibbald say sale is due to be completed over the next month – but building secure until August By Thom Dibdin The sale of the building currently occupied by the Forest Cafe in Bristo Place is due to go ahead in March, according to the building’s estate agents, although they have […]
Æ Preview – SLO Fiddling on the King’s Roof
Southern Light Opera’s Fiddler on the Roof plays at the Edinburgh King’s By Thom Dibdin Southern Light Opera return to the King’s this week with their take on one of the perennial favourites for amateur companies and musical fans alike, Fiddler on the Roof. Originally produced on Broadway in 1964, the West End in 1967 […]
