Morna Pearson
Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning
★★★★☆ Angry
You can’t keep a good vampire down for long, and the story of Dracula keeps coming back to the stage, with its depictions of transgressive behaviour making it a constant candidate for reinvention.
PPP: Celestial Body
★★★★☆ Brooding
The return of A Play, A Pie and A Pint to the Traverse with Morna Pearson’s Celestial Body, which runs to Saturday, is certainly something to celebrate.
Rapunzel – A Hairy Tale Adventure
★★★☆☆Festive fun:
The National Theatre of Scotland’s Rapunzel is full of enjoyment and impressive performances. Although it never quite stakes its claim as a compelling work in its own right, there is plenty to satisfy those missing their annual helping of seasonal entertainment.
How to Disappear
★★★☆☆ Troubling comedy:
Morna Pearson’s new play How to Disappear, which is this year’s ‘alternative’ Traverse Christmas entertainment, definitely has its heart in the right place.
McNair Joins Traverse
Cast announced for Locker Room Talk:
Gary McNair has joined the Traverse Theatre as an associate artist, ahead of the performance of his Trump response piece Locker Room Talk, next week, 17 and 18 February 2017.
PPP Walking on Walls
★★★★☆ Slight but sure:
Light as breath, Morna Pearson’s involving two hander in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint lunchtime theatre slot seems to slip by even faster than its brief 45 minute running time.
Bin Heid
★★★☆☆ Easy viewing:
Bin Heid, the second show of this year’s Traverse Breakfast Plays provides easy-on-the-brain, but nonetheless witty, entertainment – perfect for an early morning viewing.
The Village goes to Town
Traverse One is being taken for all this week by the Village Pub Theatre – Edinburgh’s pop-up new-writing company whose natural habitat is the Village Pub in Leith.
Review – The Leithtivity
Broad swipes and accurate strikes make the Village Pub Theatre’s first venture into pantomime a mixed bag, as it retells the nativity with a scabrous, 20th century Leith twist.
VPT goes Panto-crazy
The Village Pub Theatre has announced its Christmas offering, to be staged at the Village Pub Monday-Wednesday next week.
