Roddy Simpson
Getting Along With Gran
★★★★☆ Enjoyable
Getting Along With Gran, from Citadel Arts at North Edinburgh Arts for two days only, is a vibrant and thoroughly enjoyable piece of community-focused theatre.
A Noble Clown
★★★★★ Resonant
Even in slightly reduced form, A Noble Clown a the Scottish Storytelling Centre is a tour de force of writing, acting and directing, as well as necessary viewing for anyone interested in the heritage of Scottish theatre.
McScrooge
★★★★☆ Beautiful adaptation
McScrooge by Alan Mountford and Leith’s Citadel Arts Group for the Scottish Dementia Arts Festival is a beautiful adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, designed to meet the particular needs of its audience, while retaining the key elements of the original novella.
LIFE
★★★☆☆ Drawn out
LIFE from Maria McDonell at the Scottish Storytelling Centre is a production that does not always quite live up to its startlingly clever premise.
Tales from the Towpath
★★★★☆ Water-born histories
It’s not often that productions begin with a safety warning – and the reassurance that you are unlikely to drown if the venue sinks – but not many productions are staged on a barge on the Union Canal.
Ghosts of North Leith
★★★★☆ A haunting tale
Following a trial reading at Leith Festival earlier this year, the Ghosts of North Leith have been brought home in Citadel Arts Group’s production, which returns them to the church near by the cemetery where they are buried.
Elegies
★★★★☆ Evocative and relevant
The Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland’s dance adaptation of Hamish Henderson’s Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica is an evocative piece of theatre that is particularly relevant to our troubled world, despite being published in 1948.
(There Are) No Strangers Here
★★★☆☆ Poetic
(There Are) No Strangers Here, a lively and pointed new piece from local community writing group, One Foot in the Future, is at the Netherbow theatre for three performances only.
One foot in the Future
U3A inspired show for Netherbow
(There Are) No Strangers Here, a new play by four members of the Leith-based Citadel writers is set to debut this Friday 9 September 2022 for three performances only at the Netherbow Theatre in the Scottish Storytelling Centre
Leithers Live – the Custom House Play
★★★★☆ Intriguing
The Citadel Arts Group sketch out the history Leith as seen through the women folk of one family in this clever piece of promenade drama which plays through the rooms of the Leith Custom House for four performances only.
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