Gordon Braidwood

Review – Hatches, Matches and Dispatches

Review – Hatches, Matches and Dispatches

✭✭✭✩✩ Convincing comic revival:
Edinburgh People’s Theatre are celebrating an astonishing 56th year on the Fringe with this revival of Alan Cochrane’s Hatches, Matches and Dispatches, a Fringe First winner in 1998.

Aug 4 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Review – Ne’er the Twain

Review – Ne’er the Twain

✭✭✭✩✩ Ever-bubbling:
Couthie comedy is given full and adequate reign in the Edinburgh People’s Theatre fast-moving production of Ne’er The Twain – set in a tenement flat on the Leith-Edinburgh border in October 1919.

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Theatre Review – Prescription For Murder

Theatre Review – Prescription For Murder

★★★☆☆  Rollicking whodunt  Church Hill Theatre. October 2010 Review by Thom Dibdin Packed with enough red herrings to keep a kingdom in kippers, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production of Norman Robbins’ rollicking whodunit rattles along at a great pace. This is proper Midsomer Murders territory, set in the front room of the home of village medic […]

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Pantomime Review – Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves

Pantomime Review – Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves

★★★★☆  Fun:

All the fun of a traditional Scottish panto is to be had up at the Church Hill Theatre this week, as Edinburgh People’s Theatre take on David Swan’s version of Ali Baba – and hit the mark just about spot on.

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