Gemima Iseka-Bekano
Spring Awakening
★★★☆☆ Ambitious
Spring Awakening, from Theatre Paradok at the Bedlam, is an earnest and ambitious production that does not always succeed despite some accomplished performances.
Road
★★★★☆ Emotionally resonant
The EUTC production of Road at the Bedlam is far too long and distinctly baggy in places. It is also vibrant, accomplished and compelling.
Pippin
★★★★☆ Fulfilling
Edinburgh University Footlights’ Pippin, at Paradise in Augustines for the Fringe’s final week, has an infectious enthusiasm and energy that are impossible to resist.
Mother Clap’s Molly House
★★★★☆ Gloriously vulgar
The EUTC deliver a fully frank and deliciously frivolous take on Mother Clap’s Molly House, Mark Ravenhill’s dark comedy with songs, which plays the Bedlam to Saturday.
H.M.S. Pinafore
★★★★☆ Works beautifully
Edinburgh University’s Savoy Opera Group’s latest production brings a new approach to HMS Pinafore, one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operas.
Bring It On
★★★★☆ Smashed it
Edinburgh University Footlights give a big, entertaining and generally well thought-through take on Bring It On, at the Pleasance Theatre all week to Saturday.
Welcome to the Cabaret
★★★★★ Full on
EU Footlights has wandered down the hill to the Edinburgh Academy Magnusson Centre where their Showchoir’s Welcome to the Cabaret is as good a portmanteau production as any I have seen.
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