✭✭✭✭✩ Effectively affecting:
Letters To Aberlour stands out from many of the recent depictions of the horrors of the First World War by virtue of its stately staging and simple humanity.
A BOHEMIAN’S RHAPSODY – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Tunefully diverse:
Tuneful, varied and unfussily melodic, A Bohemians’ Rhapsody is a thoroughly satisfactory evening out.
OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✭ Riotous assembly:
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is a massive beast of a thing, beautifully crafted in its ragged humanity and utterly irresistible.
H.M.S. PINAFORE – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Shipshape:
There is a straightforward likeability to Cat Like Tread’s H.M.S. Pinafore that helps it to overcome some less confident moments.
SPRING AWAKENING – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Stirring:
Captivate Theatre’s Spring Awakening is a committed and occasionally thrilling production that does not quite have the conviction to carry everything off.
MOBY ALPHA – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Skilful sci-fi:
Well thought out and clever, this adaptation of Moby-Dick set in space by Seattle-based duo Charles has an individual visual style, based on a clever use of low-level technology.
MOBY ALPHA – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Skilful sci-fi:
Well thought out and clever, this adaptation of Moby-Dick set in space by Seattle-based duo Charles has an individual visual style, based on a clever use of low-level technology.
INDIE AS F*CK – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Swear it’s good:
Pinched! Theatre’s story of a teenage indie band’s dissolution seeks to combine comedy, theatre and indie rock, and does so with great success.
JOHN LENNON: IN HIS OWN WRITE – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Fab:
Energetic and funny, Baldynoggin’s staging of John Lennon: In His Own Write at the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe has a real wit and verve.
SONG TO ME – Edinburgh Fringe
The Music and Songs of Julian Wagstaff
✭✭✭✩✩ Elegant and accessible
There is a broad appeal to Song To Me, a programme of excerpts from various works by Edinburgh composer Julian Wagstaff.
UMRAO: THE NOBLE COURTESAN – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Fascinating but uneven:
Boasting impressive music and dance, Asian Music Circuit’s Umrao – The Noble Courtesan is a production with deficiencies in many areas, but is thoroughly successful in others.
UMRAO: THE NOBLE COURTESAN – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Fascinating but uneven:
Boasting impressive music and dance, Asian Music Circuit’s Umrao – The Noble Courtesan is a production with deficiencies in many areas, but is thoroughly successful in others.
TOUCH – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✩✩✩ A touch lacking:
Touch, a co-production between Ciaran Myers and Edinburgh-based Asylon Theatre at the New Town Theatre, treats difficult themes sensitively and tactfully. Unfortunately, this is at the expense of dramatic impact.
THAT DEADLY NOIR MAGIC – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ More deadly than magic:
Dani Iannarelli’s love letter to film noir and jazz combines film clips, music and a noirish plot. The outcome is too confused to be a success, although parts of the performance are very enjoyable indeed.
THE MISSING HANCOCKS: LIVE IN EDINBURGH – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Timeless comedy:
At first glance, The Missing Hancocks is a strange idea for a Fringe show – a recreation of the recording of 1950s radio programmes. All that matters, however, is that the result is two separate and extremely enjoyable shows.
HORSEPLAY – THE TROY MUSICAL – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Epic comedy:
Rough-hewn but sparkling with energy and invention, there’s neigh-doot that Napier University Drama Society’s world premier of Horseplay The Troy Musical is a real hoot.
SUNSHINE ON LEITH – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Joyful
Young critics scheme review:
Captivate Theatre reprise their take on Sunshine on Leith, Stephen Greenhorn’s feel-good jukebox musical, based on the songs of the Proclaimers.
SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN – CHEER UP HAMLET – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Family fun
Young critics scheme review:
Educational, side-splitting and with just the right amount of ridiculous, Shakespeare in the Garden – Cheer Up, Hamlet is perfect for parents who want their children to be discreetly educated but without their enjoyment being compromised.
THE GARDEN – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✭✩ Insightful dystopia:
Truth permeates The Garden, Zinnie and John Harris’ semi-opera, commissioned by Aberdeen’s sound Festival and playing off-site at the Traverse.
THE YEAR OF THE HARE – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Emotional rollercoaster
Young critic scheme review:
Creative, absorbing, and very wacky, the Finnish Ryhmateatteri Ensemble’s version of Arto Paasilinna’s popular book, originally published in 1975, certainly leaves an impact.