Jo Clifford
Book Festival 2025 round-up: Two
Hawk plays Cutler and further stagecraft at the Futures Institute
The Book Festival’s strand of performance-related events has produced some notable successes this year. The biggest draw, and probably the biggest triumph, was Hamish Hawk’s Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 0.
Ringing out the Changes
★★★★☆ Mindful
Ringing out the Changes at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral – a mindful meditation of story and sound about how bells have marked personal, national and global histories – reverberates with meaning.
The Covid Requiem
★★★★☆ Necessary
There is a clarity to The Covid Requiem at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral which makes its sadness, gentle outrage and remembrance a fitting act of collective memorial.
The Not So Ugly Duckling – A Play for Grownups.
★★★★☆ Transformative
The Not So Ugly Duckling – A Play for Grownups at the Scottish Storytelling Centre by Jo Clifford and Maria MacDonell, is a delightful retelling of Hans Christian Anderson from two adept storytellers.
Listings Mon 18 – Sun 24 April 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
Amateur musicals return with a swagger this week, as FCT’s Oliver! and EMT’s Drowsy Chaperone take the stage. Meanwhile The Meaning of Zong enters its second and final week and there’s a Waitress in town…
Life is a Dream
★★★★★ Glorious
The Lyceum’s Life is a Dream is a necessary and exquisite reminder of the possibilities of live theatre. Originally planned to end the 2019/20 season, this production has emerged into a completely changed world.
A Space To Bless
★★★★☆ Invaluable
A Space to Bless, a series of meditations from Queen Jesus Productions filmed in St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, provides much-needed balm for the soul.
Pitlochry postpones summer season
Replaced with 25 pieces for online consumption:
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has postponed its complete summer 2020 season until 2021 due to Covid-19 and replaced it with 25 commissions from its Shades of Tay project, to be presented as online works over the coming months.
Mina takes on Brecht
Lyceum launches 2019/20 season:
The Lyceum has announced a ten-production main stage season for 2019/20, with new works by Denise Mina and Linda McLean joining the already announced premieres of Solaris and An Edinburgh Christmas Carol.
Dear Lyceum,
A letter from playwright Jo Clifford
Dear Lyceum, I wrote this to you on Tuesday night when our play was due to open, and didn’t. And I didn’t know what to do with myself, so I thought I’d write to you and see if that helped me understand.