Clue sets Edinburgh date
ISIHAC for Playhouse, March 2023
Tickets have gone on sale for the Official Stage Tour of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, playing one night only at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday 12 March, 2023.
Kissing Linford Christie
★★★★☆ Tenacious
Youthful dreams and adult reality rub into each other with pleasing effect in Victoria Beesley’s Kissing Linford Christie, based on her own life, and seen at the Brunton before touring around Scotland.
On Stage Mon 17 – Sun 23 October 2022
Listings for week ending Sunday 23 October 2022:
Musicals, of a kind, dominate Edinburgh’s stages this week, with the national tour of the Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country coming to the Playhouse and the return of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) to the Lyceum for an extended stay.
Don’t. Make. Tea.
★★★★☆ Surprising
Don’t. Make. Tea., at the Traverse for four nights only, finds Rob Drummond scripting a dark tale of the labyrinthine benefits system for Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.
The Satyricon
★★★☆☆ Smutty
Martin Foreman’s new adaptation of Petronius’s first century bawdy comic romp, The Satyricon, is at Assembly Roxy to Saturday in an initially awkward staging that eventually finds its pace and pomp.
Filmhouse calls in administrators
Filmhouse and Filmfest close with immediate effect
The “perfect storm” of increased costs, the impact of the pandemic and the ongoing cost of living crises have caused the trustees of the charity which runs Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Film Festival to fold, calling in the administrators with the immediate loss of 102 jobs.
Roman Holiday
Arbery and EGTG stage The Satyricon
A new adaptation of The Satyricon is being staged this week at the Assembly Roxy in a co-production between Arbery Productions and EGTG. We spoke to adaptor and director Martin Foreman about his project.
The People Woke Up
Chilling verbatim theatre
The People Woke Up finds ice&fire theatre company using contemporary verbatim accounts to focus its long-running Actors for Human Rights project on the 2020 election crisis in Belarus and its fallout.
549 Scots of the Spanish Civil War
★★★★☆ Rousing
Wonder Fools theatre company return to its 2019 hit, 549 Scots of the Spanish Civil War, in a re-written, updated and expanded version which hits its mark with much greater accuracy.
Æ writer wins EdFringe award
Suzanne O’Brien wins Fringe Society’s Young Writers Award 2022
Congratulations to Suzanne O’Brien who has won the Fringe Society’s Young Writers Award for her contributions to All Edinburgh Theatre as part of our reviewing team at #EdFringe 2022.
