Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir
(Can This Be) Home
★★★☆☆ Uneasy construction:
(Can This Be) Home, Brite Theater’s production at the Storytelling Centre, is an emotive piece, stating important truths but not always cohering.
Theatre Uncut goes Traverse
Power Plays for Traverse & Tron:
Theatre Uncut’s 2018 free-to-perform scripts, the Power Plays, are to get script-in-hand performances at the Traverse theatre next week, on Thursday 7 June 2018 from the Braw Fox theatre company.
Getting into Formation
Annexe Arts’ festival for Assembly Roxy:
The new Formation Festival is taking place at the Assembly Roxy from Saturday 3 February 2018, with theatre performances from Annexe Repertory Theatre and a selection of Edinburgh grassroots companies.
Annexe Arts Launched
New city centre youth arts hub:
Black Dingo Productions has launched a new theatre-based arts hub for young people in the Annexe venue next to The Vault on Merchant Street, under George IV Bridge.
Richard III (A One-Woman Show)
★★★★☆ Innovative:
Shakespeare’s original script is pushed to the absolute limit, with a radical and intriguing overhaul of the renowned play Richard III.
Flying in the Hothouse
High wire trapeze at Traverse Hothouse:
The Traverse is preparing for its annual Hothouse event, promoting four work-in-progress performances from Edinburgh-based companies, running this week from Tuesday 8 to Friday 11 November 2016.
Teatime with Scott
A Silven mentalists draws you into his table:
One of the great pleasures in life is to sit down with a group of disparate people, brought together by a congenial host, to tuck into a well-prepared dinner, washed down with charm and chat.
The Bruce In Ireland
★★★☆☆ Brutal:
Bleak beyond remorse, Ben Blow’s new play about Edward Bruce’s bloody foray into Ireland, playing at the Assembly Roxy until Thursday, makes for cynical viewing.
After Bannockburn
New play follows the Bruces to Ireland:
Thanks to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, the world knows of Robert the Bruce’s triumph at Bannockburn – which earned Scotland her freedom. At least according to his film.
Icelandic debut at D21
UK premiere of Icelandic play:
Discover 21, Edinburgh’s smallest theatre, is staging the UK premier of an Icelandic two-hander this weekend with the three-night run of Bitter Sweet by Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir.
