Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 43

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, Assembly Hall
by Bryony Rae Taylor - August 12, 2019

Darlingheart's Cora Bissett is an ex-indie rocker whose star rose, but fell, 25 years ago. Firmly in the sky again, she revives What Girls Are Made Of  for another spell at the Fringe...

BWW Review: PARTY AT THE PALACE, Linlithgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2019

Party at the Palace is a music festival with one hell of a view. It's a truly stunning site for a festival, situated on Linlithgow loch with the palace as the backdrop....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: WEREWOLF: LIVE, Underbelly, Bristo Square
by Amy Hanson - August 10, 2019

In Werewolf: Live, Jon Gracey leads a team of comedians through several rounds of mystery and intrigue with hilarious results....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: FRANZ AND MARIE: WOYZECK RETOLD, Greenside Infirmary Street
by Joanna Trainor - August 10, 2019

The Nottingham New Theatre are examining the victims of war through the eyes of Georg Büchner's 19th-century protagonist, Franz Woyzeck. By focusing more on the brutal effects of the conflict on Franz's civilian life, Daniel McVey's adaptation aims to pay tribute to the faceless names who have been ...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SOFIE HAGEN: THE BUMSWING, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2019

The Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer winner is back with a comedy show about memory and swings specifically for bums....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SUPERSTAR, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2019

From a very young age, Nicola has been determined to prove to her four older siblings, and the world, that she is more than just a little sister. But wasting all that time incessantly seeking her siblings' approval and searching for new ways to hide the fact that one of her brothers is mega-famous m...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: THE RED, Pleasance Dome
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2019

Benedict's dad loved wine. He loved collecting it, drinking it and sharing it with friends and family was an act of love. Benedict was a teenage alcoholic. He's been sober now for 25 years. On the day of his father's funeral, Benedict receives an unsettling final bequest: a bottle of exceptionally f...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: TROLL, Summerhall
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2019

t's 1998. Otto is 12 but online he's 13 and he's pretty sure he gets away with it. He lives with his mum, dad, and sister, a chain-smoking Icelandic granny, and an ancient malevolent troll that's living in the wall... From Trick of the Light Theatre (The Bookbinder, The Road That Wasn't There) comes...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: UNFORTUNATE, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2019

Disney villain. Octo-woman. Plus-size icon. But who is the woman behind the tentacles? From the multi award-winning Fat Rascal Theatre, creators of sell-out hit musicals Buzz and Vulvarine, comes the untold story of Ursula the sea witch. It's time to take the plunge as we reveal what really happened...

BWW Review: SISTER ACT, Rose Theatre @ Gilded Balloon
by Fraser MacDonald - August 09, 2019

Filling all those who walk through the doors of the Gilded Balloon's Rose Theatre with heaps of spiritual joy, Sister Act is the tonic for the doom and gloom of the outside world and the perfect example of the joy of theatre....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: DANNY MACASKILL'S DROP AND ROLL LIVE, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2019

Led by world-famous trials rider and YouTube sensation Danny MacAskill, Drop and Roll make their long-awaited Edinburgh Fringe debut with a brand-new show featuring jaw-dropping stunts! Joining Danny will be highly acclaimed trials rider and fellow Scotsman Duncan Shaw, plus more athletes to be anno...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: FOR ALL I CARE, Summerhall
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2019

Clara and Nyri. Two very different women. Two complicated lives. Both having a very bad day. Mental health nurse Nyri's woken up hungover with a younger man. Meanwhile, Clara has developed a compulsive wink and can't remember if she's taken her meds. Nyri needs to get to Ebbw Vale Hospital via Gregg...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: MOUTHPIECE, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2019

After a critically acclaimed London run, the powerful Traverse Theatre hit about class, culture and appropriation returns with a new cast. Salisbury Crags. Twilight. A woman takes a step forward into the air. A teenage boy pulls her back. Two lives are changed forever. Frank, unflinching and threade...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: SARY, Sweet Novotel
by Joanna Trainor - August 12, 2019

Hare sex. Graphic, detailed hare sex. And we're not just talking hare on hare here - that's right it's fan favourite, bestiality....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HUGE DAVIES, The Carpark, Pleasance Courtyard
by Christiana Rose - August 08, 2019

Huge Davies captivates in his highly anticipated debut show. He is deadpan, intense and utterly hilarious....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: THE CASTLE, Greenside
by Joanna Trainor - August 08, 2019

a?oeYou misinterpret everything. Even the silence.a?? How's that for a bloody line?!...

BWW Review: ONLY FOOLS! THE CUSHTY DINING EXPERIENCE, Imagination Workshop
by Fraser MacDonald - August 08, 2019

For a Fringe debut, it is hard to land on your feet as assuredly as Only Fools has done. This is certain to be a more permanent fixture of the Edinburgh Fringe as part of an already hugely successful programme from Interactive Theatre International....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: RAY BRADSHAW: DEAFINITELY BABY, Wee Room @ Gilded Balloon Teviot
by Fraser MacDonald - August 08, 2019

Ray Bradshaw's unique delivery of hilarious capers during his wedding day in New York are gold, and stories of touring his show to far-flung corners of the world make for some truly delightful comedy....

BWW Review: HAIR, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2019

Welcome to the 'Age of Aquarius'. It's 1967 and Hair's hippie 'tribe' youngsters in the East Village of New York are yearning to change the world, questioning authority and the American flag. Wild, colourful, sexually liberated and free, they are united in protest and song, under the shadow of the V...

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: BEACH BODY READY, THE ROARING GIRLS, Pleasance Courtyard
by Christiana Rose - August 08, 2019

Beach Body Ready is an empowering, celebratory piece of theatre, combating body shaming and delving into weight pressures....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW REVIEW: THE LAST OF THE PELICAN DAUGHTERS, THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE, Pleasance Courtyard
by Christiana Rose - August 07, 2019

A family reunion to celebrate their late mother's birthday, unearths the truth surrounding the siblings' feelings of their past and hopes for the future....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: THE SORRIES, Quaker Meeting House
by Fraser MacDonald - August 07, 2019

The show is more of a natural extension of The Corries rather than just a tribute to the band, as the songs and stories are always evolving. From the song collections of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott to the much more modern Green Fields of France, The Sorries' setlist cannot fail to impress....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ALL SHOOK UP, Rose Theatre @ Gilded Balloon
by Fraser MacDonald - August 07, 2019

Following Chad, the Elvis-inspired loveable rogue who shakes up a sleepy Western village, All Shook Up channels the hits of the King himself to serve up a twee musical which is little on substance but big on song....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: 13: THE MUSICAL!, Rose Theatre @ Gilded Balloon
by Fraser MacDonald - August 07, 2019

Captivate Theatre brings 13 (The Musical) to the Gilded Balloon's Rose Theatre with the energy, focus and talent to rival the professionals....

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
by Emma Ainley-Walker - August 08, 2019

Kid and Boss are bored, have been bored, but now they're on an adventure together, high on the adrenaline of a successful art heist conducted on Kelvingrove Museum....