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‘It is deeply human’: STILL – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin13th August 2021Leave a Comment

Still at the Traverse is in many ways a tough watch, with themes of death and loss offset by excellent performances and perceptive writing.

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‘Every moment is memorable & engaging’: A GAME OF DEATH & CHANCE – Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin15th August 2019Leave a Comment

In A Game of Death and Chance, the National Trust for Scotland’s first ever Fringe show, four characters from the 17th century – and death himself – have occupied an old Edinburgh tenement to tell stories of Scotland’s past.

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‘Theatre which speaks with a voice that is not elsewhere heard’: THREE SISTERS – Touring ★★★★

In Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin20th March 2018Leave a Comment

Edinburgh’s Lung Ha Theatre Company has created a strong and emphatically direct production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in a new version by Adrian Osmond at the Traverse and on a short tour.

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OUR FATHERS – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland, Touring by Thom Dibdin29th October 2017Leave a Comment

Our Fathers, at the Traverse to Saturday and then on tour, has a great deal of talent behind it. The end result is amusing and entertaining but ultimately somewhat too frothy.

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GLORY ON EARTH – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin25th May 2017Leave a Comment

Extreme care has been lavished on the Lyceum’s Glory on Earth. It has a clarity to its storytelling and performances, backed up by some excellent staging, but never engages the heart or mind as fully as it promises.

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EXPENSIVE SHIT – Soho Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz8th April 2017Leave a Comment

It’s hot. Real hot. And you’re dancing, just lost in music. You’re at the legendary Shrine nightclub in Lagos, where Afrobeat star Fela Kuti is king. It’s 1994. And it’s hot. Sweat is just pouring off you, no longer in little trickles but soaking through your clothes.

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Edinburgh Fringe: Expensive Shit

In Edinburgh Festival, Festivals, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin19th August 2016Leave a Comment

Multi-layered: Ambitious, lively and unsettling, Expensive Shit by Adura Onashile at the Traverse has important things to say.

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THE ILIAD – Edinburgh

In Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Scotland by Thom Dibdin25th April 2016Leave a Comment

Compelling: Epic in scope, huge in sweep and utterly human, The Iliad at Edinburgh’s Lyceum is a powerful production.

LIGHT BOXES – Edinburgh Fringe

In Regional theatre, Reviews by Thom Dibdin16th August 2015Leave a Comment

✭✭✭✭✩ Love and regret:
Light Boxes is fascinating. Grid Iron Theatre Company has weaved a complex web, leaving the audience struggling to interpret what they are seeing.

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