Edinburgh’s Christmas
You Choose
★★★☆☆ Energetic:
There is plenty of choice and bundles of energy at Nonsense Room Productions’ adaptation of the children’s picture book, You Choose, for Edinburgh’s Christmas at the Festival Square Spiegeltent until early January.
Silent Light for Edinburgh’s Xmas
Silent Disco gets the Xmas Lights treatment:
Full details of Edinburgh’s Christmas have been released, including a massive silent disco with light show on George Street, with all tickets due to go on sale at 10am Wednesday 3 October.
You Choose for Xmas
New musical and La Clique for Edinburgh’s Xmas:
A new musical version of Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt’s You Choose children’s picture book is to make its debut at this year’s Edinburgh’s Christmas, joining the return of La Clique Noel for “Part Deux”.
Shark in the Park
★★★☆☆ Colourful:
A great deal of straightforward fun for young and old is to be had from Shark in the Park in the Festival Square Spiegeltent as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas.
La Clique Noel
★★★☆☆ Spicy:
Back in Edinburgh and back in a tent, La Clique serve up a disparate collection of acts that provide some real entertainment as well as some less satisfactory moments.
Ed’s Xmas treats revealed
Shark in Park and La Clique for Festival Square:
Shark in the Park and La Clique Noel will feature in this year’s Edinburgh’s Christmas theatre offer as the Famous Spiegeltent returns to a pitch in Festival Square from November 17 2017 to January 6 2018.
Underbelly gets Hogmanay
Unique Events loses out:
Underbelly has been announced as the winning bidder for both of Edinburgh’s major winter festivals: Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.
Xmas Fest Moves West
Five Guys take Festival Square:
A new production of Five Guys Named Moe will be the cornerstone of 2016’s Edinburgh’s Christmas stage entertainment, as the event moves its main stage to Festival Square on Lothian Road.
Stick Man
★★★★☆ Cleverly engaging:
There’s a verve and vim to the latest production of Stick Man, the adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture storybook at the Paradiso Spiegeltent in St Andrew Square until the New Year.
Briefs: The Second Coming
✭✭✭✭✩ Fabulously Fierce:
Drag artistes, award winning Vegas boylesque and edgy humour are whipped together in Edinburgh’s Christmas Spegieltent by the beautiful Briefs boys in their first visit to the city outside of the fringe.
