Archive for October, 2017
Guys & Dolls Casting Call
EMT to stage Guys and Dolls, May 2018:
Amateur musicals company Edinburgh Music Theatre has put out an open call for its May 2018 production of Guys and Dolls at the King’s Theatre.
Cockpit
★★★★☆ Necessary:
There are huge and troubling resonances throughout the Lyceum’s startling Cockpit. Fascinating staging and committed performances make for a thoroughly vital production – albeit one that falls tantalisingly short of greatness.
PPP: Love and Death in Govan and Hyndland
★★★☆☆ Recognisable
Excellent acting and directing distinguish Love and Death in Govan and Hyndland, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint offering at the Traverse. In the end, however, the play treads overly familiar ground.
EdFringe Poster Comp
Details for 2018 EdFringe Schools Competition
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has appointed Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng as champion artist for the annual Fringe Schools Poster Competition, which opens today.
Listings: 8-15 Oct. 2017
On Edinburgh’s Stages this week…
Fans of small scale work will have to be making desperate decisions this week, what with the number of great shows in town, and so much happening at the same time – there are seven shows opening or having one-off events on Wednesday alone.
The Kite Runner
★★★★☆ Emotional:
Raw and powerful, the stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner has lost none of its edge as it returns to the King’s for a week-long run, three years after it was last here.
R&J Casting Call
Student Shakespeare co’s open call for Romeo and Juliet Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company is to celebrate its tenth anniversary with a large budget, “visceral and shattering” production of Romeo and Juliet in March 2018. The company has found its production team but is looking to expand its pool of acting talent by opening the casting […]
Saving the fire-givers
Dragon adventure plays out at Drummohr:
A rare Red Dragon has descended on East Lothian, just in time for the half term break, and the Dragon Protection League needs help to look after this protected beast and ensure it doesn’t do any more damage…
The Sunshine Ghost
★★★☆☆ Reassuring:
Spirited and melodic, the first small-scale run of The Sunshine Ghost is not yet the finished article but shows signs of developing into something popular.
Sunshine Daydream
World premiere for new musical:
A new musical by Edinburgh-based pairing of storyteller Andy Cannon and composer Richard Ferguson had its world premiere in The Studio this weekend before setting off on a Scottish tour.
