Blackout Productions
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
★★★★☆ Dark and epic
There’s a ghoulish and classic Penny Dreadful atmosphere to this epic tale of revenge, as Blackout Productions bring new life to Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.
It’s pie time!
Susie Dumbreck on directing Sweeney Todd, training with Sondheim and much more… This week local amateur company Blackout Productions step back into the musical theatre genre as they take on the mighty Steven Sondheim and his Penny Dreadful musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The company already has some formidable productions under […]
Still Waiting…
Sequel to Waiting in the Wings for Church Hill
Still Waiting in the Wings, a charity concert to raise funds for brain tumour research, is taking place at the Church Hill Theatre this weekend, with an evening performance on Friday 13 and Saturday matinee on 14 October 2023.
Calendar Girls
★★★★☆ Bittersweet
Blackout Productions’ Calendar Girls, at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday, combines affable comic familiarity with enough grit and sadness to convince.
EdFringe Musicals
Musicals made in Edinburgh:
There’s a whopping 27 different offerings made in Edinburgh in this year’s Musicals and Opera section of the fringe programme.
Steel Magnolias
★★★☆☆ Emotionally charged:
There’s strong wit and a spark of real anger to Blackout Productions’ take on Steel Magnolias at the Magnusson Centre in the Edinburgh Academy to Saturday.
Blackout call for Magnolias
Casting call for Steel Magnolias
Edinburgh amateur company Blackout Productions is to stage Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias at Edinburgh Academy in February 2018 and has put out an open call for auditions.
Proof
★★★☆☆ Elegant theory:
There’s a marvellous sense of realism to Blackout Production’s first foray into straight theatre, with a short run of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof at St Brides to Friday.
Proof lifts blackout
Blackout back, with Auburn’s Proof:
Amateur company Blackout Productions return to the Edinburgh stage for their second production when they bring Proof to the St Bride’s centre.
Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Blackout Productions make a solid debut with a musically crisp and theatrically entertaining production of Tony award-winner the 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, at the St Brides Centre to Saturday.
