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The Oresteia »

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Theatre Paradok’s Oresteia condenses the lengthy three-play text into two hours, with a greater focus on Agamemnon than The Libation Bearers or The Eumenides. Stand-out performances included Becka Wolfe as a suitably savage, writhing Cassandra a...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Felix Trench | Read more »

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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 »

Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us »

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As part of the Traverse’s Debuts season, Paul Higgins’ Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us paints an engaging, if predictable portrait of a working class family in crisis. Prodigal son Patrick, returning from the seminary, exposes the difficult rea...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Matt Wieteska | Read more »

Otter Pie »

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Fish & Game Theatre Company have produced a highly ambitious reinvention of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s seminal work, Sunset Song. It takes a good ten minutes or so for the performance to begin; or at least for the performance within the performa...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Eoin McGreevy | Read more »

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe »

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CS Lewis’ most famous children’s novel follows the adventures of four children transported through a wardrobe to the magical land of Narnia. Directed by Mark Thomson, this imaginative stage adaption is sure to enthral. The classic tale is o...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | 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 »

An Ideal Husband »

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Into London’s high society comes a mysterious woman, taking the name of Mrs Chevely (Kate O’Mara). A self-professed dealer in politics, her sole aim is to promote her self-interests through theft and blackmail of the noble Sir Robert Chilte...

Sat 22 Nov 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Traverse debuts »

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The Dogstone: *** Nasty, Brutish and Short: ** Presented as a double-bill as part of the Traverse Theatre’s Debuts season, these two new plays "take an unflinching look into the darker side of Scottish families." According to the publicity material, ...

Fri 14 Nov 2008 by Eoin McGreevy | 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 »

All quiet on the western front »

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Even if you have not read the book, it is fair to assume from the start of All Quiet on the Western Front that a play about a group of German soldiers in the First World War is not going to end with japes and a wedding. The ensemble cast do an excelle...

Fri 14 Nov 2008 by Richard Dennis | Read more »

Mary Rose »

Mary Rose

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Long overshadowed in popular culture by fellow J. M. Barrie creation, Peter Pan, Mary Rose is a later, darker work. Written shortly after the First World War, in which many of Barrie’s friends were lost, it again unlocks the notion of the ageless...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

On the horizon »

Theatre La Traviata One of the world’s most celebrated opera directors, Glasgow-born David McVicar returns to Scottish Opera to direct his first ever production of La Traviata, an authentic take on the famous courtesan’s tragic tale that...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 | Read more »

Wuthering Heights »

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Adapting one of the best-known works of literature into a stage production can be problematic on many levels – die-hard fans will inevitably complain, while a slavish following of every word can lead to accusations of a lack of inventiveness. Apr...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Anna Fenton | Read more »

Midsummer »

Midsummer

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After a night of drunken passion they should never have shared and a chance meeting the following day, Bob and Helena are confronted in the Castle Terrace car park by the humble ticket machine, whose scrolling screen innocently informs them that "chang...

Sat 08 Nov 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

The camera loves you »

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Directors Antonia Alonzo and Finlay Gall haven’t given themselves an easy job in taking on Attempts on Her Life: the original script of Crimp’s play is devoid of description or direction. Yet the creation of a play from the dialogue alone a...

Sat 08 Nov 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Crawling with ideas »

Between stints of counting cells and growing bacteria as an Edinburgh biology student, playwright Sam Holcroft managed to find time to write, perform and direct a glittering array of productions at the home of Edinburgh University Theatre Company, Bedl...

Sat 08 Nov 2008 by Lucy Jackson | 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 »

Cockroach »

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Edinburgh graduate Sam Holcroft's first work, Cockroach, is a smart, witty play about the extremes created by the scenario of war as well as by our internal biological makeup. Beth is a biology teacher in a class with a group of five bickering teenager...

Thu 30 Oct 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Can't Smile Without You »

'Can't Smile Without You'

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Sometimes one enters a theatrical show with a completely open mind; at other times it is with a conviction that the show in question is going to be bad – but there is a subtle difference, and a gratification, in finding out whether it will be &ls...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

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