Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 60

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY, Pleasance Courtyard, 10 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2016

Follow an illicit affair between a student and his teacher from the viewpoint of his mobile phone in a breakneck journey from pockets to purses....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: FOREVER PLAID, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 10 August
by Amy Hanson - August 10, 2016

Four young singers in an American close harmony group - the eponymous Plaids - were killed in a car accident just as their careers were taking off, and as their style of music was about to give way to the British Invasion of the Beatles.  The quartet are given the chance to return to earth for one n...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: KATIE BRENNAN'S QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS, Underbelly, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2016

Are you crippled by student debt? Working an unpaid internship? Trying to find prince charming on Tinder? Welcome to the life of a modern day twenty-something!...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: MARGARET THATCHER QUEEN OF GAME SHOWS, Assembly, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2016

Ding-dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher, Queen of Soho presents the most fabulous game show of all. Fresh from total sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs in 2014 and 2015, the Iron Lady has now set her sights on light entertainment....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: BORIS WORLD KING, Pleasance Dome, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2016

The thinking man's idiot returns following Brexit victory/defeat (delete as applicable)....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: THE MARKED, Pleasance Dome, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2016

As a boy, Jack lived in a world of monsters and invisible guardians, as he fought to protect the people he loved. Now grown, his life on the streets of London is less fantastical....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Reviews: ALEX LOVE - HOW TO WIN A PUB QUIZ, The Stand 5, 9 August
by Amy Hanson - August 09, 2016

Pub quizzes, that delightful hallmark of British drinking culture and the ruin of many a friendship, perhaps so popular because they appeal to our desperate need to be celebrated for being a know-it-all.  It is this form of entertainment that has inspired Alex Love's show at The Stand this year.  Pa...

EDINBURGH 2016- BWW Review: THE MISERABLES, The Caves, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

Claire hates her job. Beth is questioning her romantic choices. Their boss is in a relationship with his Blackberry. Life is tough at Land of Laminates. The employees are depressed, the work is boring and nothing they do really matters....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: PANTI BLISS HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES, Traverse, 9 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

The Queen of Ireland Panti invites you into her gender-discombobulating, stiletto shaped world, exposing stories behind the make-up - from performance giant to accidental activist - to reveal the national f*cking treasure she is today....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: EUROBEAT, Pleasance Grand, 8 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

An irreverent, hilarious, sequin-soaked celebration of the international phenomenon Eurovision Song Contest. This year's honour falls to Moldova, a country determined to present a fantastic new glittering contest against all odds....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: RACHEL PARRIS BEST LAID PLANS, Pleasance Dome, 8 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

Rachel Parris (Austentatious, The IT Crowd, Murder in Successville) presents a collection of songs, stories and stand-up about not having it all. No house, husband, child, wage? No problem!...

EDINBURGH 2016- BWW Review: MICHAEL MORPURGO'S KING ARTHUR, Gilded Balloon, 8 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

An epic tale of magic, heroism, love and betrayal adapted from the novel Arthur: High King of Britain, by Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse and Private Peaceful....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: SNAP, Assembly, 8 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

A contemporary mystery magical performance SNAP, a multi-faceted art performance based on Magic combining ingenious stage language, illusion, mime, white art, and more...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Gilded Balloon, 8 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

After her parent's death, Mary is sent to England to live in her uncle's great lonely house. Everybody says she is a disagreeable-looking child but she too is lonely. One day Mary stumbles across a hidden garden and discovers the most magical place.....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: PHIL DUNNING THE PEOPLE'S PRINCE, Pleasance Courtyard, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2016

He's the talk of the town, but don't worry, his feet are firmly on the ground. Not! Come and see the guy that men wanna be and women wanna be as well....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: YETI'S DEMON DIVE BAR, Pleasance Courtyard, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

Direct from a smash hit debut season in Australia, this 'irresistible' (Guardian) musical sketch comedy duo give you a high-energy, hysterical combination of bizarre characters, relentlessly catchy songs and the story of the strangest dive bar in town!...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: ANNA MANN A SKETCH SHOW FOR DEPRESSIVES, Pleasance Courtyard, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

Star of BBC's Murder in Successville and Being Human, Colin Hoult returns as the delightful character Ms Anna Mann in a show to put down your black dog at last or at least chuck him a bone....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: MADDY ANHOLT RENT GIRL, Gilded Balloon, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

Following a sold-out run with the critically acclaimed Diary of a Dating Addict last year, Maddy Anholt is back with Rent Girl. Co-written and directed by Hardeep Singh Kohli....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: NAUGHTY CAT AND THE CHEESY MOON, Assembly Checkpoint, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

Naughty Cat is bored. There's no more furniture to ruin, no more trees to climb. She needs adventure. And chocolate. And cheese!...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: TEATRO DELUSIO, Pleasance Grand, 7 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2016

Following last year's sell-out hit Hotel Paradiso, the world's leading theatre mask specialist is back with a comedy set behind the scenes of theatrical illusion....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: THE MMORPG SHOW, Gilded Balloon At The Counting House, 7 August
by Amy Hanson - August 08, 2016

If you've ever thought that what the fringe needs is a room full of people cheering numbers on a rolling dice, then your search is over. Paul Flannery, known to nerdy Fringe-goers as Treguard from Knightmare Live, is our guide through an hour of role-playing and comedy in The MMORPG Show.  MMORPG, o...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: LIFE ACCORDING TO SAKI, C, 5 August
by Amy Hanson - August 06, 2016

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hector Hugh Munro, better known as Saki, a writer of delightfully improper short stories with all the wit of Oscar Wilde. His life and death are commemorated in a new play written by Katherine Rundell and brought to the Fringe by Atticist Produc...

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: GREATER BELFAST, Traverse Theatre, 5 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2016

A gig like no other, these are songs for a city growing greater and greater. Greater Belfast blends poetic storytelling with powerful contemporary composition for a string quartet to paint a moving portrait of a city still aching from the violence of its recent past....

EDINBURGH 2016 - BWW Review: IN FIDELITY, Traverse Theatre, 5 August
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2016

Written and starring Rob Drummond (Bullet Catch, Quiz Show), In Fidelity is offering audiences the chance to tell their future grandchildren an incredible story about their bizarre first date, a tale of meeting at the Fringe but with a twist....

BWW Review: JACKIE THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow, 26 July 26 2016
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 27, 2016

Once there was a time with no mobiles, no online dating and no Facebook, when teenage girls waited with bated breath by the letterbox for their weekly issue of Jackie Magazine. In Jackie The Musical we revisit those heady days, and tell the story of a recent divorcee who seeks advice once more from ...