Fragments of Home works both as a theatrical performance and as a film, with Annie George's performance striking a delicate balance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]With one of the My Light Shines On series of films, Ghost Light provides a poignant reminder of what we are all missing in this fallow year of live performance in Edinburgh during August.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]In Miraculous, Borderline Theatre Company and the Gaiety Ayr have created a bouncy online version of David F Ross' comedy caper novel about an Ayrshire band that once had an unexpected numbe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wonder Fools have revived their intriguing two-hander The Coolidge Effect about the insidious effect of pornography, for an audio, lockdown production that actively enhances the intimacy of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, the charity which oversees the Edinburgh Fringe, has been awarded £249,000 grants and a £1million interest-free loan to help support it through C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Perfectly pitched: Anno Domino has all of the hallmarks of classic Ayckbourn - razor-sharp observation, subtle skewering of preconceptions, and exploration of murky hidden depths.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre has entered a period of "hibernation" as a building-based producing theatre, postponing all 2020 shows and entering into negotiations with all staff over redundanc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, along with all of the city's August festivals, will not take place in 2020 because of coronavirus, it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AM[SHARE]Eden Court in Inverness is to work with its funders the Highland Council to find ways for its 200 employees to join
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PM[SHARE]The Scottish government has advised all organisers to cancel or postpone any events involving more than 500 people, both indoors and outdoors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AM[SHARE]Newbury-based circus company Cirque Berserk! appears at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre as part of its 2020 tour. The company brands itself as 'Real Circus made for Theatre' and it does exactly…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]A real joy to watch from start to finish. the story behind Everybody's Talking About Jamie is one of courage against adversity, but one that is full of humour and love too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]This gender-swapped update of Brecht's 1940 comedy, Mr Puntila and His Man Matti, is less than the sum of its individually shining
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PM[SHARE]You'll lose your head over Six The Musical, which is bringing a new audience to the Festival Theatre just a week ahead of the show's Broadway debut.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Oor Wullie, the touring musical from Selladoor, Dundee Rep and DC Thomson has moments of comic brilliance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) has a superbly wide frame of reference, and which is thought-provoking as well as being sheer good fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]It looks like director Ian Bustard has rubbed the magic lamp in his Aladdin for the Alhambra, Dunfermline. Theatre owner Bill Fletcher
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PM[SHARE]Iain Lauchlan drops enough local mentions into his Jack and the Beanstalk to ensure that, combined with plenty of pantomime set-pieces and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AM[SHARE]Visually arresting, the touring production of The Lion King which is booked into the Playhouse until March 2020, wants for nothing in terms of spectacle or budget.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Andy Gray, the uncrowned King of the King's pantomime, returns to the stage in some style in Alan McHugh's circus pantomime, directed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AM[SHARE]There is a pleasing female focus in this year's pantomime at Glasgow's King's Theatre, with four of the six named characters played
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM[SHARE]John Binnie adds a circus theme to Cinderella for his second year directing and writing the Brunton panto, allowing him to bulk
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AM[SHARE]Director and writer Michael Harrison's production for Qdos Entertainment harks back to pantomime's origins in variety. In the main this comes care
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AM[SHARE]Director and writer Tony Cownie's relocation of Charles Dickens' great Christmas fable to Edinburgh has a real family-friendly feel. Cownie has married
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AM[SHARE]Bev Berridge's inventive new script for Beauty and the Beast, which she also directs for Motherwell Theatre, is a near perfect example
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PM[SHARE]The collective charisma of the cast in a stunning production of The King and I earns a well-deserved standing ovation.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]There is a winning combination of the playful and the profound in Barber Shop Chronicles which allies serious stagecraft and knowledge to sheer enjoyability.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Confused in its execution, this touring version of Frankenstein has high production values but offers a rushed retelling of the story that fails to work in practice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Frances Poet's well-crafted new play for Stellar Quines and the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, touring as part of the Citizens Women Season, explores
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AM[SHARE]Anthony Besch's production of Tosca, set in Rome in 1943 on the eve of Mussolini's defeat, does not appear to have aged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AM[SHARE]Born on stage at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe before becoming a TV hit, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill's sitcom about old boys
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