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LETTERS TO ABERLOUR – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin29th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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.

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A BOHEMIAN’S RHAPSODY – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin28th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ Tunefully diverse:
Tuneful, varied and unfussily melodic, A Bohemians’ Rhapsody is a thoroughly satisfactory evening out.

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OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✭ Riotous assembly:
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is a massive beast of a thing, beautifully crafted in its ragged humanity and utterly irresistible.

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H.M.S. PINAFORE – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Opera, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ Shipshape:
There is a straightforward likeability to Cat Like Tread’s H.M.S. Pinafore that helps it to overcome some less confident moments.

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SPRING AWAKENING – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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.

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MOBY ALPHA – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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.

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JOHN LENNON: IN HIS OWN WRITE – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Musicals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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.

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SONG TO ME – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

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

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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.

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UMRAO: THE NOBLE COURTESAN – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin27th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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.

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TOUCH – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin24th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✩✩✩ 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.

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THAT DEADLY NOIR MAGIC – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin24th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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.

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THE MISSING HANCOCKS: LIVE IN EDINBURGH – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin24th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin23rd August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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

In Edinburgh Festival, Musicals, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin23rd August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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.

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE GARDEN – CHEER UP HAMLET – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin23rd August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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

In Edinburgh Festival, Opera, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin23rd August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ 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.

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THE YEAR OF THE HARE – Edinburgh Fringe

In Edinburgh Festival, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin22nd August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✩✩ 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.

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