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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 »

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 »

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 »

Everyday villains »

Vanished are the theatrical hero-villains. Instead, our stage villains must be taken from real experience; more and more, theatre is becoming a commentary on the threats and terrors that affect daily life. From Edinburgh graduate Ella Hickson's award-w...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

The here-for-goods, the go-betweens and the left-behinds »

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Grażyna Antkiewicz emigrates to Scotland to make enough money to send her daughter Ewa to college. Her and her family’s subsequent struggles are interspersed with the tale of the death of Robert Dziekanski, who died at Toronto airport attempting...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Lucy Jackson | 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 »

The Pearlfisher »

Pearlfisher

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It is 1948, and at a young age village-girl Jess flees the prying eyes of society to join a travelling pearlfisher named Ali.She embarks for a life on the road after bearing a child fathered by her jealous lover, Roderick, who she unintentionally kills...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

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