Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 50

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: MINISTERS OF GRACE, TheSpace on the Mile
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2018

Here at the world's biggest arts festival, creatives and artists from all over the globe are tackling truly important questions, with surely none more crucial than what the result would be if Shakespeare had written seminal 80s classic Ghostbusters. REDuck Producktions have slapped Shakespearean la...

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SONG OF LUNCH, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2018

Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey, Toast of London) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, The Flood) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle lost love. Set in a Soho Italian restaurant, Costa Award winner Christopher Reid's verse comedy is exquisitely intertwin...

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018

Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater's childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground pol...

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNA MORRIS: BOMBASTIC, Voodoo Rooms
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2018

The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4's Lee and Dean celebrates four sell-out shows at the Voodoo Rooms with a mash-up of her favourite creations....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: THE SHOWSTOPPERS' KIDS SHOW, Pleasance Courtyard
by Fiona Scott - August 11, 2018

Showstoppers! have made a name for themselves as the UK's most acclaimed and in-demand musical improvisers, creating brand new musicals in a single evening. As well as bringing their usual hit show to the Edinburgh Fringe, they present a highly entertaining family-friendly edition of the Showstopper...

BWW Review: MADAGASCAR THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2018

This smash hit musical features all of your favourite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar....

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: GARRY STARR PERFORMS EVERYTHING
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018

Theatre, we are informed at the outset of the show, is a dying art.  A potentially controversial statement at the Fringe, but luckily for everyone, underappreciated actor Garry Starr is on a mission to save the art form.  Over the course of sixty minutes, he will attempt to perform every single genr...

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review, PASSIONATE MACHINE, Zoo Charteris
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018

We are all time travellers in our own way.  After all, what else is a to-do list but a message from a past self?  But what would happen if you started getting messages from a future version of you?  That is the intriguing premise of Passionate Machine, a one-woman show written and performed by Dr Ro...

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: (NO) MONEY IN THE BANK, Sweet Novotel
by Amy Hanson - August 07, 2018

Thom Bee is a wrestling fan who wants to share his passion for the art of the squared circle with Edinburgh audiences.  He does this with the aid of comedy tag-team partner Balthazar Dark (Andrew Marsh), whose career failures have led him to something of an existential crisis....

EDINBURGH 2018:BWW Review: ASHLEY STORRIE: ADULTING, Counting House
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018

Scotland's favourite funny girl and viral internet sensation Ashley Storrie returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show about not growing up. With the world most likely ending quite soon, Ashley believes we should all have a laugh and be a bit more honest particularly about the myth of 'adulthood'......

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: CATHERINE BOHART: IMMACULATE, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she's got a hell of a lot to say about it. Debut show from a rising comedy star....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, Paradise @ Augustines
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018

Clark Gesner's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown first opened on Broadway in 1967, based on the Peanuts comic strip characters created by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown (Cameron Kirby), Snoopy (Ellie Campbell) and friends are brought to life in this revival by Bare Productions directed by Dominic L...

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL, Pleasance Courtyard
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical makes a return visit to the Edinburgh Festival for its 11th consecutive year. The premise is simple; create a brand new musical from scratch at every performance, the execution is not....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: JAY LAFFERTY: WHEESHT!, Gilded Balloon
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018

"Wheesht" is a Scottish expansion of "Shh", often used within the phrase "Haud yer wheesht' when telling someone to shut up north of the border. Seasoned Scottish comedian Jay Lafferty returns to the Fringe after being rated one of the top reviewed comedians at the 2017 Fringe Festival....

BWW Review: ALEX EDELMAN: JUST FOR US, Pleasance Courtyard
by Matt Elliot - August 09, 2018

Alex Edelman won Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe and now returns with his third solo show, Alex Edelman: Just for Us. From the moment he comes out on stage you know you are in for a top class evening of comedy....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: SIX, Underbelly
by Matt Elliot - August 06, 2018

Six began as a Cambridge University student production before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe last year. It returns to Edinburgh this year following on from a successful run at the Arts Theatre in London and a UK tour....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: COURTNEY ACT: UNDER THE COVERS, Underbelly
by Matt Elliot - August 06, 2018

Courtney Act will be best known to UK audiences from her winning stint Earlier this year in Celebrity Big Brother. More dedicated fans will know Courtney as Season 6 runner up of Ru Pauls Drag Race. She is in fine form as she takes us 'Under the Covers' of some of her favourite songs, accompanied by...

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TILDA SWINTON ANSWERS AN AD ON CRAIGLIST, Assembly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2018

With sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles, a gay man's life implodes when actress Tilda Swinton (Buffy and Instagram star Tom Lenk) insists on studying him for her next big movie role...

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, Traverse
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2018

In 1992 a schoolgirl from Fife was catapulted to a rock star life in an indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn't. Based on her teenage diaries, this is the true story of Cora Bissett's rollercoaster journey from the girl she was to the woman ...

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: MESS, Greenside
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018

Many have said to a loved one: 'If you need anything, give me a call, any time of day.'. But what happens when a friend actually takes you up on that offer in the middle of the night? MESS is a new musical that follows two best friends over the course of an evening as they counsel and confess to one...

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: ARMOUR: A HERSTORY OF THE SCOTTISH BARD, TheSpace
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018

Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard is a new musical written by Shonagh Murray and directed by Melanie Bell that addresses who Nancy and the other women featured in his poetry were and what might have happened if they had met after his death....

Edinburgh 2018: BWW Review: BRAINIAC LIVE!, Underbelly
by Fiona Scott - August 07, 2018

Can you run through plasterboard? How does an electric fence work? How good is your hearing? What is the best way to spin an office chair? All questions that may or may not have crossed your mind but are answered by the Brainiac team live on stage....

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SOUTH BEND, Gilded Balloon
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2018

Multi award-winning Grid Iron, in association with Platform, bring you a hilarious road movie for the stage. In 2006 Martin McCormick flies across the Atlantic to be reunited with a woman he has fallen passionately in love with, a Californian girl. But she's changed. Completely. Almost as soon as he...

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: HEAVEN BURNS, Assembly Roxy
by Amy Hanson - August 05, 2018

In 1662 Morayshire, Isobel Gowdie works for zealous and ruthless witch-pricker John Dixon, torturing suspected witches into confessing their crimes.  When a ragged man appears, claiming to be the real John Dixon, and that the witch-pricker is a disguised woman named Christian Caddell, Isobel must re...

EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: JOHN ROBERTSON: SWEATY, SEXY PARTY PARTY, Just the Tonic at The Tron
by Amy Hanson - August 05, 2018

Sheer anarchy is about the only way to describe John Robertson's latest stand up effort. Sweaty, Sexy Party Party is a difficult show to summarise, as if there was a theme or set to it, it was quickly discarded in favour of riffing off of audience members to hilarious ends. Luckily, the Australi...