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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 »

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 »

Life, love and a game of pool »

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Directed and created by Edinburgh student Will Lawton, The Windmill deals with the adolescent agonies of love as two friends hang out in the pub, playing pool, eating chips and drinking Coke. Josh (Will Lawton) and Pete (Lawrence Manson) have unrequite...

Fri 14 Nov 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Three Sang of Love Together »

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Arranged and directed by student, Dasha Dubovitskaya, Three Sang of Love Together is a cleverly devised short piece of theatre assembled from excerpts of some of the most famous poetry in the English language. Narrated by three women (Amanda Ma...

Thu 30 Oct 2008 by Eoin McGreevy | Read more »

Theatrical by convention »

The Penny Dreadfuls: Aeneas Faversham Forever

Edinburgh's busy seasonThe Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe may be over but there’s no rest for the keen theatregoer. The Lyceum Theatre opens its 08/09 season on Friday 12th September with its production of Macb...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Edinburgh graduate wins Fringe honours »

Scenes from Ella Hickson's production 'Eight'

Around 75 per cent of graduates at Scotland's top universities go straight into employment. But very few of them amass Edinburgh Fringe awards. University of Edinburgh graduate Ella Hickson has done just that, winning not only a Fringe First award, but...

Wed 17 Sep 2008 by Evan Beswick | Read more »

Students on the Fringe »

Student theatre at the Fringe

It is exam time. Central area is eerily silent, as across Edinburgh thousands of students sit hunched over their files, books, laptops and kettles like worker bees in a city-wide hive. On the outside, however, strange things will soon begin to happen. ...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Not Close Enough »

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Dan writes obituaries, Alice strips; Anna is a photographer, and Larry, a dermatologist. In this play of fleeting staccato scenes, fast exchanges of dialogue and brutally honest language, Patrick Marber’s Closer launches an audience into the tro...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Eoin McGreevy | Read more »

Wheels within wheels and fires within fires »

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Set in a time fraught with both deep-rooted faith and suspicion, The Crucible is Arthur Miller’s allegorical play about the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1695. It could ask for no greater justice than Bedlam Theatre gives it. From the mo...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Grace Kinne | Read more »

Innocent or Guilty?  »

Joseph K and the Chorus in Henry Peters' visual production

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Since its publication in 1925, Kafka’s The Trial has consistently managed to intrigue and alarm readers. This stage adaptation by Stephen Berkoff, presented by Edinburgh University Theatre Company, proves that messing with the medium does little ...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

EUTC works Pratchett's Discworld magic »

Richard Dennis as the inescapable, yet understanding, Death

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There is always a responsibility that accompanies bringing to life a novel blessed with a strong and opinionated fan-base, never more so than for the likes of Terry Pratchett’s successful Discworld novels. There are also added complications that ...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 by Claire Jarvis | Read more »

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