Philip Kingscott
Seaside streaming
Dunbar company puts Mary QoS play online:
Battery Theatre, which creates site-specific shows for and about the community of Dunbar, is putting its most recent production online, after being forced to cancel this summer’s offering due to Covid-19.
Passing Through for NY
Peapod Prods hits the Big Apple:
Edinburgh based grassroots company Peapod Productions is taking its romantic comedy Passing Through to the Chain Theatre in New York for two performances this week.
The Moonlit Road
★★★☆☆ Ghoulish:
Suitably disturbing in its content and pleasingly rounded in its construction, Peapod Productions’ The Moonlit Road and other ghostly tales still has uneven patches in its presentation.
Back on the Moonlit Road
Peapod’s tale of terror returns:
The Moonlit Road, Edinburgh-based Peapod Production’s one-man tale of terror and paranoia, is back on tour in Scotland, with a clutch of Halloween dates at Summerhall.
Conflict in Court
✭✭✭✭✩ interactive trial
The upstairs space in the New Town theatre is decked out as a small courtroom where Tory MP Marcus Baillie seeks damages from a red-top tabloid in Liam Rudden latest interactive drama.
Peapod Prods go on the Moonlit Road
Edinburgh-based shoestring company Peapod Productions will take to the road this autumn with a spooky production based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker and, crucially, Ambrose Bierce.
Peapod Prods. Pop Out Again
Passing Through on road for fourth time:
Passing Through, Alistair Rutherford’s immersive rom-com for Peapod Productions sets out on tour again this week, starting at the Scottish Storytelling Centre tonight (Thursday).
Passing Through returns
Passing Through, the immersive rom-com from Peapod Productions, is to get a new lease of life with dates in July and October, followed by a new tour in 2013.
Review – Passing Through
★★★☆☆
Pouring cold water over the exploits of an actor is not unheard of for a theatre critic. Pouring cold water over the lead actress by personal request – proper cold water in a watering can – is another matter entirely.
Æ Review – The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
★★★☆☆
Whipping into the theatre calendar for four days of Advent, new Edinburgh-based theatre company Peapod Productions open many little doors with this sturdy cabaret production of Jeff Goode’s fascinatingly dark, comic and challenging Christmas play.
