Magnetic North
In the mix
Nicholas Bone on Magnetic North’s quarter century Edinburgh’s Magnetic North theatre company, creators of some a clutch of quite brilliant pieces of small scale work – and facilitators of even more – is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. We asked company founder and artistic director Nichola Bone, about the company and its work, which […]
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.
Celebrating Tom McGrath
New Maverick awards and celebrations of Tom’s 80th.
The Tom McGrath Trust is celebrating what would have been the late, great playwright and jazz musician’s 80th birthday with the announcement of the final three Maverick Awards.
McGrath’s 80th marked
Magnetic North revive McGrath’s Dream Train
Edinburgh’s Magnetic North theatre company is streaming a new performance of its first ever production, The Dream Train by Tom McGrath, on what would have been the playwright’s eightieth birthday.
Easter Offerings
Theatre online this Easter weekend
If the Easter Weekend feels like any other while in Covid-lockdown, at least there are a few theatrical offerings to ensure that you can make the next few days a bit special.
Erewhon
★★★☆☆ Genial technology:
Promising a mixture of old and new technology and material, Erewhon at Summerhall fails to ignite fully, but remains an engaging and amiable production.
EdFringe Theatre – Professional companies
Edinburgh’s Professional theatre companies on the Fringe:
There are more shows made by Edinburgh-based companies at this year’s fringe than all the shows at the 1972 Edinburgh fringe put together. Here’s a listing of the theatre shows put on by professional companies…
Shock cuts to theatre companies
Mixed results in Creative Scotland’s latest funding round:
Edinburgh’s Catherine Wheels and Lung Ha’s theatre companies have had 100% core funding cuts in a day of mixed fortune for the city’s theatre as Creative Scotland announced its latest funding round.
Our Fathers
★★★☆☆ Charming:
Our Fathers at the Traverse has a great deal of talent behind it. The end result is amusing and entertaining but ultimately somewhat too frothy.
A Requiem For Edward Snowden
✭✭✭✩✩ Mourning becomes electronica:
A Requiem For Edward Snowden, the ‘digital opera’ at Stockbridge Church, has an eerie contemporaneity, treating political concerns in a way that speaks more of sorrow than of anger.
