EGO bows out
Fat lady sings for Edinburgh Grand Opera
The charity running Scotland’s oldest opera company, the Edinburgh Grand Opera, is to be wound up at its own request, having failed to come through Covid unscathed.
Family Tree
★★★★☆ Illuminating
Family Tree, by Mojisola Adebayo, at the Traverse for three nights only, is a word-spitting, poetic and coruscating piece of theatre that brings light to a shameful corner of the scientific world.
Listings: Mon 3 – Sun 9 April 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
There’s plenty to chew over and plenty to enjoy in Edinburgh this week, with EMT going 9 to 5 at the Church Hill, EUSOG playing Pinafore at the Bedlam and a new play about Henrietta Lacks at the Traverse.
Walden
★★★★☆ One golden pond
Magnetic North brings back its magnificent adaptation of Henry David Thereau’s Walden to the Fruitmarket until Saturday, with a fresh production that has a newly found vigour and depth.
Listings Mon 27 Mar – Sun 2 April 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
The big noise this week is the arrival of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – the Musical, at the Playhouse, but the big news comes from a couple of much smaller productions – at the Storytelling Centre and the Fruitmarket.
Brunton bouncing back
Venue trust “upbeat about sourcing alternative venues”.
The Brunton Theatre Trust says its programme of work will go on, even though The Brunton venue is temporarily dark due to the emergency structural surveys taking place in its performance spaces.
Shakers
★★★☆☆ Funny
The EUTC make a decent fist of Shakers, at the Bedlam all week, playing to the broad comedy of the John Godber and Jane Thornton’s script but finding their best in its moments of pathos.
Dame Judi Dench sets Edinburgh date
I Remember It Well
Dame Judi Dench is to make an appearance in Edinburgh this August, when she brings her hit West End reminiscence show, I Remember It Well, to the Edinburgh Playhouse.
I Hate It Here
★★★★☆ Love it here
There are no winners in Sweet Beef’s magnificent I Hate It Here, touring to Summerhall for two nights only, which dives smoothly from joy to desperation in its exploration of zero hour contract culture.
Brunton dark to June
All events at the Brunton before June affected
The Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh is having to go dark, initially until June, with all planned events unable to take place within the theatre building, because of survey work across all performance spaces.
