Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 68

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: KINGMAKER, Pleasance Courtyard, August 3 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 03, 2014

A bumbling, charismatic London Mayor challenges his enemies to become prime minister. But will his comic and colourful past destroy him?...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: HUMAN CHILD, Underbelly, August 3 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 03, 2014

Inspired by changeling myths and the poetry of WB Yeats, Human Child is a blazing fantasy adventure story that mixes theatre, puppetry and live music for children from 8 to 80....

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: ZOMBIE SCIENCE: BRAIN OF THE DEAD, C Venues, August 2 2014
by Amy Hanson - August 03, 2014

Dr Austin, expert on the undead and head of the Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies is offering his expertise to Fringe-goers in two shows this August. An investigation into the brains of those who eat brains, Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead is about the neuroscience of the pop culture favour...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: MARGARET THATCHER QUEEN OF SOHO, Assembly George Sq, August 2 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 03, 2014

She's back! Britain's first female prime minister stars in a drag comedy musical extravaganza like no other! On the eve of the vote for Section 28, Maggie gets lost in Soho and accidentally becomes a cabaret superstar, but will she change her mind about the homophobic bill before it's too late?...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: DIVALLUSION, Assembly Checkpoint, August 2 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 03, 2014

YouTube sensation Christina Bianco and cabaret star Velma Celli present a selection of your favourite pop divas in 60 minutes. Through humour, versatile vocals and impressions they'll honour these timeless divas, presenting familiar hits in ways you're unlikely to have seen or heard before!...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: PRIVATE PEACEFUL, Underbelly, August 2 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse. Private Peaceful relives the life a young WW1 soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn....

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Assembly Hall, August 2 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

Something is wrong with Wednesday Addams. Gomez and Morticia are desperately worried about their daughter; the charming little bundle of malice has lost her taste for death, darkness and torture. She is behaving like a demented Disney princess. Where did they go wrong? Surely she hasn't fallen in lo...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT, Summerhall, August 1 2014
by Amy Hanson - August 02, 2014

The Scottish Enlightenment Project, playing for only three nights at Summerhall, is a performance of a work in progress created by the National Theatre of Scotland and Brooklyn-based the TEAM. A meditation on Scottish national identity, particularly in contrast with that of America, it is centred a...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: BLOOD ORANGE, Summerhall, August 1 2014
by Amy Hanson - August 02, 2014

A far right protest in the Scottish town of Dumfries inspires this tale of a young man caught up in a world of skin heads and racist violence. Presented by Electric Theatre Workshop, Blood Orange is an often confrontational piece of theatre, utilising the aesthetics of clubbing to create an hour tha...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: BIANCO, No Fit State Big Top, August 1 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

Following last year's explosive success, NoFit State returns with a re-invented version of Bianco, featuring brand new acts in their unique, subversive and sensational style. Bianco is a physical and sensual journey through a visceral landscape, inhabited by women and men, their fears, doubts and ho...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW REVIEWS: EDEN GATE, C Nova, August 1 2014
by Amy Hanson - August 01, 2014

Set in the near future, Eden Gate takes place at the entrance to a sanctuary from a deadly virus that has reduced the population to a few hundred thousand people. You, the audience member, are a key part of the story as you have survived the apocalypse so far, and made your way to Edinburgh, where E...

EDINBURGH 2014- BWW Reviews: OVERLOOKED, Cowgatehead, August 1 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

Have you ever felt undervalued? Ignored? Overlooked? Award-winning comedy writer/performer Lizzy Mace presents a series of oddball characters - from the fourth bear in the Goldilocks story to the disgruntled children's TV presenter and her psychopathic sock puppets - giving each of these endearingly...

EDINBURGH 2014- BWW Reviews: THE TRIAL OF JANE FONDA, Assembly Rooms, August 1 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

Jane Fonda is one of the most controversial anti-war activists in American history. On 18 June 1988, in a little-known event, Fonda confronted a room of hostile Vietnam veterans in Waterbury, Connecticut, who were boycotting the filming of her movie Stanley & Iris, co-starring Robert De Niro. The tr...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS, C South, August 1 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 02, 2014

The long walk to the remote control. The stale taste of a bagel. The low battery on your mobile phone. With 140 characters or fewer to fill, everyone has a problem that needs solving in our unforgiving first world. Using tweets, songs and physicality, this original piece of new writing based on the ...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: MORGAN & WEST: PARLOUR TRICKS, Pleasance Dome, July 31 2014
by Amy Hanson - August 01, 2014

What sets Morgan and West apart from other magicians gracing the Fringe this year? According to the men themselves, "Better waistcoats, better facial hair....and time travel!" As seen on ITV's Penn and Teller: Fool Us, the eponymous double act are Victorian gentleman magicians, evoking not just a se...

BWW REVIEWS: WICKED, King's Theatre, Glasgow, May 6 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 07, 2014

Glasgow's King's Theatre welcomes the Scottish premiere of the worldwide hit musical Wicked....

BWW Reviews: FAME, Edinburgh Playhouse, April 22 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 23, 2014

Fame the musical provides an open look at the New York City's High School of Performing Arts, where sweat and hard work are the key factors to a successful life as a performer....

BWW Reviews: AN EVENING OF MOVIES AND MUSICALS, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, April 19 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 20, 2014

A star-studded cast from theatre and music perform a range of songs from movies and musicals accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra and 150 strong choir....

BWW Reviews: SOME GIRL I USED TO KNOW, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, March 10 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 11, 2014

Denise Van Outen stars as Stephanie Canworth. And Stephanie has it all. She's beautiful, has a successful career, a supportive husband and she's a media darling; life is great. But it takes just one Facebook poke from a blast-from-the-past and all the old memories start flooding back - candy floss, ...

BWW Reviews: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, March 1 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 02, 2014

Direct from the West End this classic musical tells the story of Monumental Pictures producting their first musical film during an age of silent pictures....

BWW Reviews: HAPPY DAYS, King's Theatre, Glasgow, February 24 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 25, 2014

The new musical based on the hit tv series opens at Glasgow's King's theatre as part of its UK tour....

BWW Reviews: GLASGOW GIRLS, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, February 21 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 22, 2014

Originally opening at the Citizens Theatre in 2012, National Theatre's Glasgow Girls returns for a limited run....

BWW Reviews: WAR HORSE, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, January 30 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 04, 2014

I knew what I was getting into with War Horse. Having read the book and seen the film, I knew it was going to make me cry. I was still unprepared. War Horse managed to completely sell out its debut Scottish run at the Festival Theatre weeks before it opened....

BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY, King's Theatre, Glasgow, January 15 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - January 15, 2014

Based on Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet,West Side Story is set on Manhattan's Upper West Side and explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs; one white, the other Puerto Rican....

BWW Reviews: PETER PAN: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY, The Hydro, Glasgow, January 10 2014
by Natalie O'Donoghue - January 12, 2014

Peter Pan, The Never Ending Story World Arena Tour is a high-flying, hi-tech fantasy adventure that combines the drama and excitement of live theatre with the epic visuals of a blockbuster movie....