Archive for November, 2022
Christmas Listings
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this Festive Season.
It feels like theatre is properly back after the Covid hiatus, as every Edinburgh theatre and amateur theatre company rolls out its Christmas or seasonal offering.
Sinbad the Pantomime
★★★★☆ Sin-good
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as Sinbad sails into Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre for the festive season. And with the Arabian Nights legend, played with gusto by Calum Barbour, comes a slew of familiar faces making up the supporting cast.
An Edinburgh Christmas Carol
★★★★☆ Timely
There is so much to commend in the return of An Edinburgh Christmas Carol to the Lyceum, where it runs through until December 31.
Cell Outs
★★★★☆ Searing
Cell Outs from Glasshouse Theatre follows two young, idealistic graduates who join a training scheme offering a postgraduate qualification and work experience in rehabilitation, hoping to have a positive impact and make a real change to the lives of prisoners.
The Snow Queen
★★★★☆ Beautifully wintry
The traditional Scottish Ballet festive slot may have shifted forward a little due to the King’s pantomime moving across town, but the return of The Snow Queen still manages to provide the appropriate Christmas glitter.
Hidden Door goes hexagonal for 2023
Pop-up festival to take over “Tardis”-like Scottish Widows complex
Hidden Door is to take over the A-listed former Scottish Widows complex at 15 Dalkeith Road for a five-day immersive event running from 31 May to 4 June 2023.
On Stage Mon 21 – Sun 27 November 2022
Listings for week ending Sunday 27 November 2022
Christmas must be just around the corner – the first of the big Christmas shows and the first pantomime of the season have their openings this week.
Mannequins at the Pianodrome
Citadel Arts stages new plays in Ocean Terminal
The Citadel Arts Group is to stage an evening of new works under the title A Mannequin for All Seasons, in the Ocean Terminal, where the Pianodrome has set up its latest temporary residency in the Wee Hub at the Old Debenhams.
A Dolls House
★★★☆☆ Effervescent
The EUTC have taken Ibsen’s great classic, A Dolls House, and given it an immersive telling at the Bedlam all week, in a production which updates the setting to contemporary times.
Vanity Fair
★★★☆☆ Jam packed
Leitheatre’s Vanity Fair at the Church Hill Theatre is a well directed, well acted production that falls victim to many of the problems inherent in putting a sprawling novel on the stage.
