Paul McCole
Edinburgh, Cream of the CATS
Edinburgh companies win half CATS 2024
Three Edinburgh companies shared half the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2024 (CATS), awarded in a ceremony at the Glasgow Theatre Royal today, Sunday 16 June.
PPP: The Sheriff of Kalamaki
★★★★☆ Impressive
This week’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, The Sheriff of Kalamaki by Douglas Maxwell is another tale of mismatched siblings, this time played by the real-life McCole brothers.
PPP tales of coming home
Six play season of lunchtime theatre at Traverse
Tales of coming home unite the Traverse’s six lunchtime theatre productions from A Play A Pie and A Pint this Autumn, with the first production, Ship Rats, opening this week.
Muster Station: Leith (EIF)
★★★★☆ Chilling
Muster Station: Leith, by immersive theatre specialists Grid Iron for the EIF, uses the halls and corridors of Leith Academy to suggest what it might be like when the climate emergency reaches a crisis point, here, in Edinburgh.
Orphans
★★★☆☆ Raucous
Full of comic bravado, the National Theatre of Scotland’s long-delayed musical adaptation of Orphans at the King’s is an attractive but unwieldy beast.
I Can Go Anywhere
★★☆☆☆ Uneven two-hander:
A good premise is overshadowed by a lumbering script in Douglas Maxwell’s exploration of identity and belonging, I Can Go Anywhere, at the Traverse Theatre as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas to 21 December.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart – Review
Playful and proficient, David Greig and Wils Wilson’s celebrated production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart for the NTS continues to delight audiences and is well worthy of any compliments it has been paid.
Prudencia’s coming home
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, the pub-set, site-specific hit by David Greig and Wils Wilson for the National Theatre of Scotland is to play limited dates at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy theatre this March.
