Publication of Call to Action:
Desire Lines, Edinburgh’s city-wide conversation about the cultural and creative future of Edinburgh, concludes today with the online publication of its Call to Action.
WAVES – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
✭✭✭✭✩ A bigger splash:
Diving into a world she makes so real that you can’t tell where her story ends and reality begins, Alice Mary Cooper tells the tale of Elizabeth Moncello – creator of the Butterfly stroke.
JUDY: The Songbook of Judy Garland – Touring
✭✭✭✩✩ Luft for life:
When you’re Lorna Luft, the shadow of Judy Garland is inescapable. The Hollywood legend introduced her daughter to the world in a touching segment on her TV show, singing a new song, Lorna, to her. And now she’s singing back with a 20-date tribute to her mother.
TITUS ANDRONICUS – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
✭✭✭✩✩ There will be blood:
Bloody, nasty and noisy, the Grads’s production of Titus Andronicus at the Assembly Roxy has all of the ingredients of a memorable shocker but it is let down by some confused moments and a surprising politeness.
Artistic director Mark Thomson to leave Lyceum, Edinburgh
“New adventure” for Lyceum’s AD:
Mark Thomson is to step down as artistic director of the Lyceum next May, 2016, at the end of the theatre’s 50th anniversary season.
Vote Culture! Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre is
Polling day production:
Culture is on the agenda on polling day, with the Traverse staging a pair of Two Minute Manifesto performances that attempt to capture the spirit of debate.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong – Touring
To die, that would be an awfully big adventure. So said Peter Pan, but he might have been talking about mounting an ambitious Christmas show when you’re a bunch of hapless students.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Perfect equation… Visually slick and intellectually enthralling, the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, captures your imagination and simply doesn’t let go. Not during the show, and not afterwards.
Desire Lines Date Set
Date set for publication and meeting:
Desire Lines, the project to crowd-source input to Edinburgh’s cultural strategy, will publish its initial findings in May.
The Venetian Twins
✭✭✭✭✩ Double the fun:
Broad, finely honed and never afraid of a corny joke, The Venetian Twins is a huge, rip-roaring thing. It is all rather silly, but is none the worse for that.
A View From The Bridge
✭✭✭✩✩ Honourable:
A strange and mysterious 1950s New York is explored in the Consortium Theatre Company’s take on Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, but the production fails to completely convince.
The Straw Chair
✭✭✭✭✩ Ragged glory:
There is a warm and thoughtful core to The Straw Chair at the Traverse that sometimes seems in danger of being overpowered by a particularly remarkable performance.
The Woman in Black
There’s a terrifying tale waiting to be told. The Woman in Black, the 1987 stage production that inspired the 2012 film of the same name, shows just how a ghost story ought to be told – delivering two hours of conflict, action and suspense.