Archive for August, 2017
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Uncompromising:
Take the original Trainspotting movie and put it in IMAX. Turn the sound up to 120%, the acting to 130%. and have all the gore, faeces and bile flying out of the screen, right up in your face. You’ve now got some sense of Trainspotting Live.
Rhinoceros
★★★★☆ Wild:
The EIF’s Rhinoceros is a thoroughly contemporary take on a modern classic, combining knockabout comedy with a deep consideration of human society.
Snowflake by Mark Thomson
★★★☆☆ Ambitious:
Snowflake from The Network – The Pleasance Theatre Trust’s partnership with the Scottish Drama Training – is an ambitious exploration into the lives of Generation Y.
Greek
★★★★☆ Dark and inventive:
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s operatic version of Greek, based on Steven Berkoff’s play, brings dark humour to the Festival Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Smashing Shakespeare
★★★★☆ Slick:
Captivate Theatre has earned a reputation for energetic, witty performances. With Smashing Shakespeare, in the Rose Street Theatre until August 14, it lives up to that expectation.
Pippin
★★★★☆ Another Winner:
Gorgeous singing, bags of life – and a stunning array of costumes – make Forth Children’s Theatre’s Pippin, at the Edinburgh Tabernacle to Saturday, another thoroughly entertaining and accomplished production.
Eve
★★★★☆ Warmly fierce:
There is a deep humanity to Eve, at the Traverse, that makes it both challenging and reassuring, giving it an ultimate message of hope.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
★★★★★ Trash Hit:
Local youngsters from the MGA Academy bring trailer-trash America to the heart of Edinburgh in this hilarious and entertaining production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical.
Five Kinds of Silence
★★★☆☆ Dark and twisted:
Students and graduates from the MGA Academy make their professional debut in a dark and twisted all-new production of Shelagh Stephenson’s Five Kinds of Silence.
Brave Macbeth
★★★★☆ Brilliant children’s theatre:
Brave Macbeth from Captivate Theatre at Gilded Ballon venues is everything a children’s musical should be – and educational too.
