Kirsty Eila McIntyre
The Lower Depths
✭✭✩✩✩ Depths hidden:
Dark and vicious, Andy Corelli’s take on Gorky’s The Lower Depths for Siege Perilous strikes all the right tones at the Hidden Door, but doesn’t always reveal them as clearly as it might.
Love in a box
Discover 21 premieres new work
Cameron Forbes new play Something Resembling Love is to receive its premiere at Discover 21 on Friday night as Edinburgh’s smallest theatre continues its mission to promote new talent.
Miss Julie
✭✭✭✭✩ Enticing scandal
In a new adaptation of August Strindberg by Jen McGregor, Black Dingo Productions return to the late 19th Century with a story about class, longing and scandal.
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.
Review – Tightlaced Double Bill 2012
Charlie and My ’45 * * I Promise I Shall Not Play Billiards * * * Scottish Storytelling Centre Review by Thom Dibdin Quietly cynical and tantalisingly brief, Tightlaced Theatre’s pair of plays at the Storytelling centre until Saturday delve into the past in two quite contrasting fashions. Opening the evening, Robert Howat’s Charlie and […]
Æ Review – The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
★★★☆☆
Whipping into the theatre calendar for four days of Advent, new Edinburgh-based theatre company Peapod Productions open many little doors with this sturdy cabaret production of Jeff Goode’s fascinatingly dark, comic and challenging Christmas play.
