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Bedlam Theatre

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle »

caucasian chalk circle

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Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle is certainly not an easy undertaking for most theatrical groups but Edinburgh University Theatre Company, under the direction of Carolin Alff, certainly have an enthusiastic go at tackling such an epic ...

Wed 16 Nov 2011 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Immaculate »

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For Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s most recent offering, Anna Reid directs Immaculate by Oliver Lansley, a play which comically explores what it means to be faced with the prospect of giving birth to the Messiah in the modern age. When ...

Thu 10 Nov 2011 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Twelfth Night »

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Mistaken identity, unrequited love, cruel pranks and a revolving stage are just a few of the happenings in the EUTC’s Twelfth Night. Directed by Paul Hughes and supported by the RSC’s Open Stages programme, this new reimagining of one of Wi...

Thu 03 Nov 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Nine Questions For: Paul Hughes »

1. What made you decide to put on a performance of Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night was a play I had read when I was a bit younger and quite liked, but I had never really formed much of an attachment to it until recently. What I particularly like about th...

Tue 01 Nov 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Tristan & Yseult »

Tristan & Yseult

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What is love? Is it the inability to be apart from another or the ability to allow them to embrace their destiny? Must love be requited or can it exist in the mind alone, unrequited? Love can make you both weak and strong. Love has a bittersweet after...

Sun 01 May 2011 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

Open Heart Surgery »

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Theatre Uncut is a full day of short plays of both up-and-coming and established playwrights responses to the cuts being imposed by the new coalition government, of which the arts are hit particularly hard by. Stretching right across the country f...

Sat 23 Apr 2011 by Alexandra Wingate | Read more »

Theatre Unleashed »

“Theatre Uncut is a massive project that’s happening, it’s been spearheaded in London by Reclaim Theatre and Meeting Point Productions at the Southwark Playhouse.” Says Alexandra Cory, the producer of Theatre Uncut: Bedlam, one ...

Sat 12 Mar 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The Strasse »

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Tash Frost’s third production (she previously directed Candlewasters and Walk a Mile) is set in The Strasse, home to a violent hierarchy at the head of which sits ‘The Boss’. Produced, directed and performed by students, the play is ...

Fri 26 Nov 2010 by Derval Tannam | Read more »

No Exit »

No Exit

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Barely pausing to draw breath from their successful run of productions over the fortnight-long EUSA Fringe, Bedlam is once again in full flow, bringing one of Sartre’s most existential plays to the stage. When three strangers find themselves for...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Jennifer Blyth | Read more »

Zemblanity »

Zemblanity

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Following their success at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008 and 2009, Fringe award winners Le Navet Bete have returned to Edinburgh’s Bedlam Theatre for one night only as part of their ‘Tournip’ across the UK and the EUSA Fringe, for a ...

Fri 05 Feb 2010 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The Improverts »

The Improverts

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Edinburgh’s only resident improvised comedy troupe, The Improverts, have returned to the Bedlam Theatre following summertime escapades on the Fringe, which saw them play a show every night after midnight—even on Sundays. But while the name ...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Abigail's Party »

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When Abigail’s Party first appeared in 1977, it was quickly hailed as one of the most influential British plays of the decade. Mike Leigh’s satirical comedy drama was praised for its subtle commentary on British society, but since the origi...

Tue 24 Mar 2009 by Steven Dow Cowan | Read more »

Rope »

Rope

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The setting: an apartment in Mayfair, London, in the 1920s. The story: two students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo, murder fellow student Ronald Kentley and for their pièce de résistance, invite carefully chosen guests round for an...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Anna Fenton | Read more »

City of Glass »

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Adapting a highly complex novel such as Paul Auster’s City of Glass for the stage is by no means a straightforward task; more difficult still is making the production accessible and intelligible for audience members unfamiliar with the original t...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Eoin McGreevy | Read more »

Sweet Jesus! »

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With Valentine’s Day looming, the sickly stench of love permeates the air, while banal conceptions of ‘desire’ are rammed into our faces in every shop window and on every television channel. Unfortunately, these tired clichés s...

Sat 21 Feb 2009 by Anna Fenton | Read more »

Wormwood »

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A bleak and hard-hitting play by Scottish writer Catherine Czerkawska, Wormwood looks at the Chernobyl tragedy from an entirely human perspective, questioning the public perception that the disaster was a cautionary tale against nuclear power. In fact,...

Thu 12 Feb 2009 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Backwash Road: The Tale of Jimmy the Squid »

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The Backwash Road of this latest Bedlam Theatre production is a run-down and dangerous place for the unwary traveller to wander through. Into this neglected quarter stumbles Jimmy (Neville Galvin), a boy under constant threat from assassins, geriatric ...

Thu 12 Feb 2009 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Normal »

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"Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?...that would be the pleasure to end all pleasures." These were the last words of serial kill...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Eoin McGreevy | Read more »

Bedlam Theatre Freshers' Slots »

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The Daft Days: **** Mountain Language & New World Order ** Butterflies Scream ** Bedlam Theatre's Freshers' Slots are a chance to showcase the emerging talent of Edinburgh University’s theatrical bright young things. The plays this year were...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Don't Switch It Off »

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The cynic might expect a play supported by the Edinburgh University English Literature Department to exhibit high levels of solipsism and pretension. Instead, this bold piece of new writing is surely one of the most professional, sensitive, and enterta...

Sat 22 Nov 2008 by Anna Fenton | Read more »

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