Archive for February, 2022
EIF drops Russian conductor
Valery Gergiev dropped as Festival’s Honorary President
Leading Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been removed as the Edinburgh International Festival’s Honorary president out of sympathy with the people of Kyiv.
Playhouse pulls Russian ballet
Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia cancelled
The Edinburgh Playhouse has cancelled next week’s performances from Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Live at Leith Theatre
★★★☆☆ Mixed bag
There is much to recommend in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Live at Leith Theatre, which is due to be live-streamed into cinemas on Sunday 27 with as-live screenings on March 6.
Covid delays Lyceum show
The Scent of Roses opening delayed a week
The cast and company of the new Zinnie Harris play, The Scent of Roses, has been effected by Covid, delaying the play’s opening by a week.
Rocky Horror Show
★★★★★ Damn it!
Loud, brash and very, very slick, Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show rock’n’rolls into the Kings with pinch of glitter, a fist-full of glitz and a whole bucket of on-the-nose comedy.
Listings: Mon 21 – Sun 27 February 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week
Damn it, Janet, the Rocky Horror Show is back in town – again – and this time it’s Ore Oduba in the hot seat as Brad Majors.
The Roses of Eyam
★★★★☆ Unexpected insights
Disconcertingly relevant, the EUTC’s production of Don Taylor’s The Roses Of Eyam at the Augustine United Church until Sunday provides unexpected insights into our own plague years.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
★★★★☆ Spellbinding
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the musical based on the 1971 Walt Disney film, flies into the Festival Theatre for a short but spellbinding stay, until this Sunday.
The Wedding Singer
★★★☆☆ Gutsy
There’s plenty of gutsy delivery and vocal attack in the Edinburgh University Footlights production of The Wedding Singer, which takes to the main stage of the Rose Theatre until Saturday.
The Dresser
★★★☆☆ Sterling performances
That The Dresser, a play dealing with that old cliché that ‘the show must go on’ should lose one of its two stars on opening night in Edinburgh is oddly fitting, if unfortunate.
