Hill Street Theatre

Casual Encounters

Casual Encounters

★★★☆☆ Dark sex comedy

It is Saturday night and, following advice from a counsellor that he and his wife should have more sex, middle-aged Morningside banker, James, played by Ade Smith, is looking forward to his first experience of wife swapping.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Conspiracy

Conspiracy

★★★★★ Bureaucratic nightmare

Conspiracy, a co-production between Edinburgh-based grassroots companies Strawmoddie and RFT, is a chilling and almost obscenely mundane account of the Wannsee Conference, held in a Berlin suburb in January 1942.

Aug 23 2024 | By | Reply More
The Court

The Court

★★★☆☆ Maybe murder

Edinburgh Little Theatre’s interactive court-set drama, The Court, finds a middle aged woman accused by her sister of murdering their mother and is run on the Lunchtime Theatre principle of adding a pie and bevvy to the ticket price.

Aug 20 2024 | By | Reply More
Caged: The True Story of Isabella MacDuff

Caged: The True Story of Isabella MacDuff

★★★★☆ Commanding

Confined behind bars before her audience, Isabella MacDuff takes to the stage to tell her own story in Caged, written and directed by Colette Swan for Pigeon Cote Productions.

Aug 19 2024 | By | Reply More
Murder at the Fringe

Murder at the Fringe

★★★☆☆ Fun exercise

Murder at the Fringe, by Edinburgh Little Theatre, is extremely courageous. The audience is closely involved in the solving of a murder, with six suspects lined up for questioning.

Aug 18 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth: ★★★☆☆ Speedy
Dunsinane: ★★★★☆ Bloody

A Necessary Cat have done it again – bringing a powerful double helping of a Shakespeare starter and Shakespeare-adjacent main course to the Fringe in which the whole is better the sum of its parts.

Aug 14 2024 | By | Reply More
Ripper: The Musical

Ripper: The Musical

★★★☆☆ Chilling

Ripper: The Musical presented by East Lothian company Reconnect Theatres at Hill Street Theatre for the whole Fringe, is a chilling musical based on the killings of Jack The Ripper.

Aug 11 2024 | By | Reply More
And They Played Shang-a-Lang

And They Played Shang-a-Lang

★★★★★ Joyful romp

After an eleven-year streak, Edinburgh Little Theatre’s And They Played Shang-a-Lang opens what is billed as its final Fringe run, to a packed and cheering house at the Hill Street Theatre.

Aug 10 2024 | By | Reply More
Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots

★★★★☆ Memorable

A glamorous and electric production of Kinky Boots by Sound Events Scotland features at the Hill Street Theatre where it is running every morning for the whole Fringe.

Aug 9 2024 | By | Reply More