Andrew Lincoln brings a real gravitas to proceedings in A Christmas Carol, anchoring the production and delivering a performance of variety and skill that will leave you hoping he returns to the stage more often in the future.
THE BRUCE IN IRELAND – Edinburgh
Played out on a stage covered with squelching mud and straw, director Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir ensures that there is an uneasy sense of impermanence to the whole project. The Bruce in Ireland covers the historical events which followed Bannockburn, when Robert the Bruce’s younger brother went off to Ireland to open up a second front against the English. Fighting as he was, in support of those already at war with them, it technically did not break the year-long truce agreed between Scotland and England.