Theatre
Review: Carmen - Edinburgh Grand Opera, Lyceum Theatre
A fresh and classy production of Bizet’s most famous work, Carmen, is running at the Royal Lyceum this week.
****
Hareford bound
LIVINGSTON Players introduce audiences at The Brian Duguid Auditorium to a host of hilarious characters in their latest foot-tapping production, Me And My Girl.
Chance to learn more about Peter Pan man
MYSTERY and scandal has long dogged the ghost of JM Barrie, creator of Peter Pan.
Interview: Brian Conley, actor, Oliver
YOU can’t have a fat kid singing Food, Glorious Food. That’s what a teacher at stage school told a young - and presumably rather chubby - Brian Conley after he’d asked to be put forward to audition for a part in a West End production of Oliver! alongside Roy Hudd.
Comedy review: Simon Amstell, Numb, Queen’s Hall
“Young” Simon Amstell, as the man himself wistfully notes, was renowned for cheek, initially as a pop presenter on Nickelodeon and Popworld, before honing the art of celebrity disdain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Encore Ahoy for Anything Goes
LOCAL amateur musicals company Encore set sail at Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre next week, when they hop on board the SS America in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.
Review: The Globe Theatre on Tour’s Anne Boleyn, Festival Theatre
Howard Brenton’s play imagines a supernatural meeting of minds between Anne Boleyn and James VI of Scotland (James I of England). Finding a copy of William Tyndale’s banned Bible in Boleyn’s post-decapitation belongings, James interviews her ghost to find out more about the role she earmarked for Protestantism in Britain.
****
Review: Kidnapped, Brunton Theatre
Adapting a classic novel for the stage can’t be easy at the best of times, but when the plot involves deeds of derring-do, a shipwreck and a marathon chase through the Highland wilds, it must present a fair old test for those involved.
****
The Jacobites are coming
EDINBURGH’S Robert Louis Stevenson may have shocked with his gothic horror the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, and thrilled with his fanatsy thriller Treasure Island, but for sheer swash-buckling action, it’s hard to beat Kidnapped, written in 1886.
Review: A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Dear Glasgow, Traverse Theatre
One Day in Spring is a season of new work from the Arabic world, hosted by Òran Mór.
***
Local Heroes: Macbeth in Scots
EDINBURGH Theatre Arts (ETA) can currently be found performing Macbeth In Scots, at St Ninians Hall in Stockbridge.
Diva Ute Lemper returns to city
Weimar-style cabaret diva Ute Lemper returns to Edinburgh tomorrow for the first time in four years with Last Tango in Berlin, a musical journey from the backstreet German cabaret songs of Brecht and Weill, to the poetic French chansons by Brel and Piaf and on to the sultry Argentine tango nuevo of Astor Piazzolla.
Review: Iolanthe, Festival Theatre
The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society take to the stage again with their production of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most celebrated works.
**
3 commentsReview: Platform 18: Beats/Thatcher’s Children, Traverse Theatre
For an award that champions “new direction” in Scottish playwriting, choosing two pieces that hark back to the 80s and 90s as winners might seem, on the face of it, a tad incongruous.
***
Traverse has an Arabic lunch
A PLAY, A Pie And A Pint returns to the Traverse this week, with the first of six lunchtime plays written by artists living through turbulent political times in Lebanon, Morocco and Syria.
G&S Society swap King’s for Festival
THERE’s nothing the Edinburgh Gilbert And Sullivan Society like better than a good challenge.
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