Category Archives: Theatre

The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh presents the Reading Rep Theatre production as the Scottish Premiere of Jekyll & Hyde written by Gary McNair and starring Forbes Masson, who returns to the Lyceum stage for the first time in twenty years, in this one man show. Prolific stage actor Masson is an associate artist with the RSC and National Theatre of Scotland and comesContinue reading “One Man Performance of Jekyll & Hyde Comes to Lyceum This January”

The ninety minute drama that is every game of football, has been brilliantly reimagined as a conduit for a stage drama in this debut play from Eilidh Loan. Set in a small working class town in the West of Scotland, Moorcroft has as its central character Gary, played with believable swagger by Martin Docherty, whoContinue reading “Moorcroft      Traverse”

Citadel Arts Group have a new show coming up, The Ghosts of North Leith. Imagine their surprise when they discovered a connection between one of the main characters in their forthcoming show, Lily Gladstone, and the star of Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon! Lily Gladstone came from Montana and was of Blackfeet Indian stockContinue reading “Citadel Arts Group Discover Leith Link to Scorsese Movie Killers of the Flower Moon”

Bram Stoker’s late 19th century vampire novel not only became a worldwide classic but, closer to home, put the north English town of Whitby on the literary map. This new radical version takes the chilling story back to its Scottish roots in Cruden Bay where Stoker spent time and gives a nod to forgotten femaleContinue reading “Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning             Festival Theatre “

At a ceremony of the prestigious UK Theatre Awards, held on Sunday 8th October at London’s Guildhall, Capital Theatres was announced as the winner of the ‘Excellence in Inclusivity’ award for the dementia friendly programme. UK Theatre Awards, the only nationwide awards to celebrate outstanding achievements in theatre across the UK, described as “pioneering andContinue reading “Capital Theatres Wins UK Theatre Awards for Excellence in Inclusivity”

This year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival, that runs from 13th to 29th, sees its first ever new podcast series Another Story. Opened by Storyteller Gauri Raje, it includes six insightful  episodes featuring some of this year’s festival performers reading their favourite stories and discussing this year’s festival theme ‘Right to be Human’ chosen to celebrateContinue reading “Scottish International Storytelling Festival Starts New Podcast Series This October”

The evenings are getting cooler, the nights are getting longer and we just so happen to be knocking on the very month of October: it seems the perfect opportunity for The Festival Theatre to unleash its rather macabre fare upon the Edinburgh public! You know, I have to admit in all my life of goingContinue reading “2:22 – A Ghost Story Festival Theatre”

Matthew Bourne has taken Shakespeare’s play and made it into something very much his own, without losing the heart of the story. Set in the (not too distant?) future in the Verona Institute, which appears to be an asylum/young offenders place of incarceration for youths deemed to be wayward and so may prove to beContinue reading “Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet Festival Theatre”

A compelling journey of inspiring spoken word that beautifully represents the LGBTQ+ community. We live in a time when the LGBTQ+ community receives mass media attention, but the majority of this attention is high-level news stories, that oftentimes fail to deliver valuable insight or information about the LGBTQ+ community. Ignorance is certainly not bliss inContinue reading “Packed House Kafe Kweer”