Paul McCole

Edinburgh, Cream of the CATS

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.

Jun 16 2024 | By | Reply More
PPP: The Sheriff of Kalamaki

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.

Oct 4 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP tales of coming home

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.

Sep 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Muster Station: Leith (EIF)

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.

Aug 20 2022 | By | Reply More
Orphans

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.

Apr 13 2022 | By | Reply More
I Can Go Anywhere

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.

Dec 11 2019 | By | Reply More
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart  – Review

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.

Mar 19 2014 | By | 2 Replies More
Prudencia’s coming home

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.

Feb 26 2014 | By | Reply More