Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 42

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: MURDER BALLADS, Greenside @ Nicolson Square
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1996 album, Murder Ballads, tells of gruesome deaths born out of love. Gerry Smyth stitches these together into a pleasurable production....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: CAMILLE O'SULLIVAN SINGS CAVE, Pleasance Courtyard
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

Camille O'Sullivan dedicates her latest show entirely to the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. She pours all of herself into this production. It pays off with spectacular success....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ARABELLA WEIR: DOES MY MUM LOOM BIG IN THIS, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2019

The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Does My Mum Loom Big In This? is for everyone who's had a mother or been a mother, featuring hair-raising hilarious true stories from Arabella's dysfunctional childhood, her perilous career...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: RUST, The Space
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2019

'When you leave here, everything else will be exactly the same. The only thing that's changed is you.' Based on personal experience, Rust follows Evie over the course of a month in a rehab centre as she starts to rebuild herself from rock bottom. The company behind SiX brings this moving and life-af...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: INPURSUET, The Space
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 15, 2019

Inspired by true events: a passionate Sue Perkins Superfan, sent to a therapist to deal with her drinking, relays her adventures pursuing Sue. Fleabag meets Miranda in this fierce, heartfelt new LGBT comedy/drama. Follow our heroines impressive swagger skills, drinking habits and coping mechanisms i...

BWW Review: CONFETTI AND CHAOS, Imagination Workshop
by Fraser MacDonald - August 16, 2019

Confetti and Chaos is immersive theatre at its best, engaging with its audience from the very outset. As 'guests' gather outside, the 'venue staff' are mingling with the audience and starting the entertainment from the get-go....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BUGSY MALONE, Rose Theatre @ Gilded Balloon
by Fraser MacDonald - August 14, 2019

Bugsy Malone is an engaging, exciting and hilarious piece of theatre. Captivate Theatre has once again brought an old classic into the 21st Century with a simple yet effective production....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: THE INCIDENT ROOM, Pleasance Courtyard
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

The Yorkshire Ripper was convicted of killing 13 women in the late 70s and early 80s. Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's The Incident Room opens the door to this five-year-long police investigation....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HOW TO BE BRAVE, Roundabout @ Summerhall
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 14, 2019

How To Be Brave, written by Siân Owen and performed with boundless energy by Laura Dalgleish, is the greatest bedtime story a scared little girl could hear....

BWW Review: DAUGHTERHOOD, Roundabout @ Summerhall
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 14, 2019

Pauline stayed at home to care for Dad. Rachel went out into the world to advocate for him and others with his condition. When Rachel makes a surprise visit home, no return ticket booked, resentments and sacrifice bubble to the surface and the two sisters battle through their differences.  Though th...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS, Underbelly Cowgate
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

Mary Anning is just 12 years old when she finds an ichthyosaur skeleton on a Lyme Regis beach. It's the first find of its kind in the 1800s. Helen Eastman tells this forgotten story:...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: THE CANARY AND THE CROW, Summerhall
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

Daniel Ward's The Canary And The Crow narrates his experience of being a black boy in a white, middle class high school. But it's so much more than those teenage years....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HELEN BAUER: LITTLE MISS BABY ANGEL FACE, Pleasance Grand
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 14, 2019

Helen Bauer is being marketed as 'a self-confessed attention seeker', and she really wants you to watch. An inward look at all things Helen....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: BABY REINDEER, Summerhall
by Daniel Perks - August 14, 2019

An intense, unnerving and magnetic performance by Richard Gadd, as Baby Reindeer takes the audience through a journey of Gadd's long-term stalker....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: LOYISO GOLA: POP CULTURE, Pleasance Dome
by Joanna Trainor - August 16, 2019

You may not always agree with Loyiso Gola, he's a pretty strongly opinionated kind of guy, but his arguments are always so logical and annoyingly backed by sound rationale that you've got to hear him out....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: TYPICAL, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 13, 2019

Ryan Calais Cameron's new play, Typical, is a monologue depicting an unthinkable, but depressingly fathomable, true story....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: LUCY MCCORMICK: POST POPULAR, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 13, 2019

Lucy McCormick is back, inflicting her twisted brilliance on Edinburgh, following her last hit Triple Threat in 2016. A show with expertly deployed obscenity, with a smattering of absolute indecency....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CATHERINE COHEN: THE TWIST...? SHE'S GORGEOUS, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 13, 2019

Gorgeously indiscreet, this New York Comic is as sharp as they come. Bubbly, with a sprinkling of aggression. Cohen hails from New York, where she has a weekly slot at Alan Cumming's cabaret bar a?" her act includes songs a?" and Henry Koperski accompanies her on keys....

BWW Review: ROCKY HORROR SHOW, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 13, 2019

The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids a?" Brad and his fiancée Janet. When by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a creepy mansion whilst on their way to visit their former college professor, they meet the charismatic Dr Frank n Furter....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: DO OUR BEST, Underbelly
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

Produced by double Fringe-First winning Francesca Moody (of Angry Alan and Square Go), self-obsessed 30-year-old Girl Guide Sephie tries to achieve her entertainment badge after several failed attempts....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SEX SHELLS, Underbelly Cowgate
by Joanna Trainor - August 13, 2019

The best costumes at the Fringe, glorious rewrites of songs you wish you'd been clever enough to think of, and a glittery, scantily clad man lying across your lap. What a Wednesday!...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ORLANDO BAXTER: FINDING MARIAH, The Stand
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

It's comedy, but not as you know it. Orlando Baxter structures his set around his struggle to reconnect with his father in his hometown in Massachusetts, and the discovery that he may have a half-sister....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: LONDON HUGHES: TO CATCH A D*CK, Pleasance Courtyard
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

Hughes' highball energy will make this hour of comedy pass in the blink of an eye....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CONSPIRACY, Underbelly
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

A powder keg of stupefaction and anxiety. Three people - Rose Wardlaw, Azan Ahmed and Shannon Hayes - explore their conspiracy theories around the famous 1932 photo of 11 builders precariously eating their lunch atop the Rockefeller Centre....

BWW Review: ELEANOR MORTON: POST-MORTON, The Stand Comedy Club
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

Eleanor Morton is aloof you can't help but warm to her not-quite-but-nearly deadpan attitude, but the comedian treads some already pretty-well trodden comedy ground....