Review
Medea
★★★★☆ Furious
A millennia-old depiction of revenge is given contemporary urgency in the Bard in the Botanics’ Medea. The award-winning 2022 production is at the Traverse for two performances only, as part of a tour in association with Raw Material, supported by Macrobert Arts Centre.
Matilda the Musical
★★★★☆ Huge energy
The return to the Playhouse of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the RSC’s Matilda the Musical after seven years, is certainly a cause for celebration.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
★★★☆☆ Clear
New grassroots company Gutter Theatre give a commendably solid showing for their inaugural production: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, playing upstairs at Assembly Roxy to Saturday.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
★★★★☆ Pleasing
The touring production of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts at the Festival Theatre will certainly please any fans of the grumpy detective, but is also an impressive, intelligent piece of theatre in its own right.
PPP: Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door
★★★☆☆ Charming
Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door, the first in the new batch of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a well-performed and pleasing – if ultimately insubstantial – production
The Grand Duke
★★★★☆ Inspired merriment
The Grand Duke, from EdGAS, is a pleasurably silly delight from start to finish. Consistently stylised to the perfect degree of deliberate overacting, it elicits laughs without being overdone.
Metamorphoses
★★★★☆ Sweeping
Metamorphoses from the EUTC at the Bedlam is a journey through classical myth that is unfocused and wilfully uneven, but is frequently compelling, has energy to spare, and boasts some remarkably fine performances.
Here and Now
★★★★☆ Full-on candyfloss
Here and Now, the Steps jukebox musical, jumps headlong onto the Playhouse stage in a production which is all heart and vitality in its telling of a story that is as substantial as candyfloss on a stick.
We Will Rock You
★★★★☆ Exuberant
Loud, assertive and extremely accomplished, We Will Rock You, from the Bohemians at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, is thoroughly enjoyable.
Head. Heart. Hand.
★★★★☆ Heady, heartfelt, handsome
Head. Heart. Hand. at the Traverse until Saturday, is a fitting celebration of a local institution but should be of interest to everyone, being an excellent piece of theatre by any standards.
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