Stuart Nicoll
Serial killer play Burke is back
Serial killer play Burke, by Edinburgh playwright Caroline Dunford, is to return for one night only as part of Close Fest, performed in Mary King’s Close under the Royal Mile.
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.
Æ Review – Burke
* * * The GRV By Thom Dibdin Darkly brooding, Caroline Dunford’s new play about Edinburgh’s serial murders, Burke and Hare, is given an atmospheric production by Siege Perilous, in association with West Port Productions. Set in the prison cell from which Burke was to be taken to his death, Andrew Hainey creates him as […]
