Paul Brotherston
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PPP: Toy Plastic Chicken
★★☆☆☆ Curate’s egg:
First seen as a somewhat explosive work-in-progress at last year’s Hidden Door, Toy Plastic Chicken is the final production in this Spring’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint lunchtime theatre slot at the Traverse.
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Austen Rom-com for Lyceum
Lyceum announced Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) for Jan 2020:
The Lyceum is picking up the Blood of the Young, Tron co-production of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) for a six venue UK tour, hitting its own stage in January next year, 2020.
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Book Festival Round-up
The view from Charlotte Square:
The Book Festival continues to explore the interface between literature and performance in a way that is refreshing and risk-taking. If it does not always come off, that is certainly a price worth paying.