Helen Mackay
The Twenty Five
Full cast of Knives in Hens announced:
The full cast of 25 actresses taking on the role of Young Woman in the concert reading of David Harrower’s Knives in Hens at the Lyceum on Tuesday 11 June 2019 has been revealed.
The Belle’s Stratagem
★★★★☆ Exemplary comedy:
Vivacity, wit and downright stupidity abound in The Belle’s Stratagem at the Lyceum, a production of verve and cheek that produces as much laughter as anything seen on the Edinburgh stage in recent years.
Book Festival Round-up
The view from Charlotte Square:
The Book Festival continues to explore the interface between literature and performance in a way that is refreshing and risk-taking. If it does not always come off, that is certainly a price worth paying.
PPP Walking on Walls
★★★★☆ Slight but sure:
Light as breath, Morna Pearson’s involving two hander in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint lunchtime theatre slot seems to slip by even faster than its brief 45 minute running time.
Before the Hudson and the Liffey
James Connolly in Edinburgh and Leith:
In this centenary year of the Easter Uprising, the EIF combined with Edinburgh’s trades unions to commission a short piece of theatre that remembered the union activities of James Connolly, who was born in Edinburgh.
PPP: Prom
★★★☆☆ Lively
Sparky energy and interesting observations abound in Oliver Emanuel’s Prom, the latest A Play, A Pie and A Pint offering at the Traverse.
Outlying Islands
✭✭✭✩✩ Too grounded:
A fascinating exploration of human impulses lies behind Outlying Islands at the Traverse, but the uneven quality of some of the production means that it falls short.
Review – Be Silent or Be Killed
A terrorist attack while on a business trip to Mumbai in 2008 forced Roger Hunt to spend 40 hours in his hotel bedroom, while the attackers roamed the building killing all Westerners they found. Irene Brown reviews the play based on true events on Æ
Æ News – Lyceum announces Xmas cast
Full cast announced for Lyceum’s Snow Queen By Thom Dibdin The full cast has been announced for the Royal Lyceum’s Christmas show which will, for the first time in several years, be using one of Stuart Paterson’s famed versions of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy stories. Joining Allison McKenzie (River City’s Joanne Rossi), who was previously […]
Knives in Hens
A Concert Reading from Pearlfisher
At the beginning of this one-off concert reading of Knives in Hens in memory of Pauline Knowles, playwright David Harrower related a telling anecdote about Pauline and the play in which she originated the central character.