Jen McGregor
Creepie Stool – Review
Intriguing and doubly pertinent thanks to its re-staging in a dark corner of St Giles, Jen McGregor’s tale behind the tale of Jenny Geddes is a moving and provocative piece of theatre.
Review – 1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett
✭✭✩✩✩ Musically sound
Dress up, take part and join in at Anke’s, the Berlin night-club created in Summerhall, for this politically-charged production set on 30 January 1933, the night Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
Wiemer cabaret comes to Summerhall
Bursting into the new year, Edinburgh’s fringe companies are making their mark this week with a sensual, politically-charged production which makes direct comparisons between the rise of the NSP in 1930s Germany and Europe today.
Review – Invokation of Lady Macbeth
The opening image of Invokation is an arresting one. A large black pentagram is marked out on the floor, inhabited by two strange figures, one masked like a Venetian carnival figure and the other shrouded in black lace. A doom-laden soundscape heralds the beginning of some kind of black mass.
Review – Beyond Therapy
✭✭✭✩✩ Flawed but endearing
Sweet but somewhat inconsistent, Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s production of Beyond Therapy is at the Bedlam all week.
New theatre is Discover 21
Discover 21, a new 35 seat studio theatre run by local shoestring companies Tightlaced Theatre and Black Dingo Productions has opened at the Art’s Complex in Edinburgh.
Theatre at Previously… history fest
History is no longer “bunk”, thanks to the fantastically inventive festival Previously… running 13 – 30 November, created and championed in Edinburgh by Susan Morrison.
Review – The Idiot at the Wall
Sibling rivalry leads to a disastrous turn of events in Elspeth Turner’s extremely promising debut 2012 play, revived for a Scottish tour by Edinburgh company Stoirm Og and seen at the Traverse.
Women in Theatre – Scotland: Report from the Trav
Consultant Christine Hamilton has called for a new generation of women to come forward and carry on the fight for representation in Scottish Theatre. Here, Jen McGregor reports from the open debate held at the Traverse Theatre on Thursday 26 September 2013 as part of that process.
Review – The Weegie Board, A West Coast Ghost Story
There are plenty of shivers down the spine on offer from Scottish Youth Theatre in their short but entertaining production of David Cosgrove’s The Weegie Board.
