Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 70

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: BOYS, C Aquilla, August 13 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 14, 2013

It's the end of the era and it seems like the end of the world is happening just outside the window. Ella Hickson's BOYS sees its characters facing that difficult time at the end of university. The world is at your feet...but what if you're not ready to grow up?...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: FOUR SCREWS LOOSE IN SCREWTOPIA, Assembly George Square, August 13 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 14, 2013

FOUR SCREWS LOOSE come running onto stage fanfare of loud music and high energy and this sets the tone for a fast-paced frenetic hour of musical sketch comedy. These four talented boys combine pop music, singing, rubber faces and traditional sketches with such charm that it's impossible not to be sw...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: REVOLUTION SOCIETY, Pleasance Dome, August 13 2013
by Amy Hanson - August 13, 2013

This political comedy is the story of a student Revolution Society, an extracurricular group annoyed at the system and wanting to change things, only without a concrete idea of what they want to change and how to go about it. From complaints about the shrinking size of Snickers bars and the cliches...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: TRACK 3, Bedlam Theatre, August 13 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 13, 2013

Chekhov's THREE SISTERS is the inspiration for this accomplished multi-discipline work from LA company Theatre Movement Bazaar. TRACK 3 sees time zones and locations in permanent flux as we see the sisters trapped and forever yearning for the mythical Moscow, doomed to remain out of reach. Physical ...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: POLE FACTOR, The Space On The Mile, August 13 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 14, 2013

The beautiful Sameera Mohammed aka Coco is a reality celebrity on Pole Factor. Actively rejecting Islam, her controversial anti-mosque campaign has gone viral. The Muslims are outraged at the betrayal but she is only saying what everyone else is too scared to....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: PUNCHLINE, Space @ Surgeons Hall, August 13 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 13, 2013

What is funny, and what drives people to try and make others laugh on stage. Ross Ericson's new comedy PUNCHLINE tries desperately to find the answer - and never quite succeeds....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: SAD FACES THREW A PARTY, Pleasance Courtyard (Attic), August 12 2013
by Kate Finburg - August 13, 2013

You're late. We're out of snacks. Now put on this hat and pretend to enjoy yourself. Join Sad Faces as they put the fun and social into socially dysfunctional....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: BRIEFS: THE SECOND COMING, Assembly George Square, August 12 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 13, 2013

MAGIC MIKE meets CIRQUE DU SOLEIL in the latest fringe outing for the outrageous Australian cabaret troupe Briefs. BRIEFS: THE SECOND COMING opens with dinner suited men with perfectly preened hair stripping down to the aforementioned behind deftly dangled feathers and straight away the tone is set,...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: MY PREGNANT BROTHER, Pleasance Dome, August 12 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 12, 2013

Thomas Beattie made news around the world when he went on Oprah in 2008 to discuss being a pregnant man. But despite the entire furore that surrounded this, he was by no means unique. Johanna Nutter's one-woman show, MY PREGNANT BROTHER, making its UK debut at the Fringe, tells us her family's stor...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: HAPPY NEVER AFTER, Pleasance Courtyard, August 12 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 12, 2013

A young couple fall in love and move in together to their first home. Hannah Rodger's new play HAPPY NEVER AFTER charts what happens when what follows isn't the fairy-tale ending they'd dreamed about....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: ALFIE MOORE: VIVA ALF VEGAS
by Adrian Bradley - August 12, 2013

Comedy and therapy can often overlap in one-hour shows and such is the case in ALFIE MOORE: VIVA ALF VEGAS. Former police officer, steelworker and problem gambler Alfie Moore returns to Edinburgh for the fourth time with a deeply personal show about what drives people to risk (and lose) everything....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: WARDENS, Assembly Roxy, August 11 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 12, 2013

What happens when a group of traffic wardens, a PCSO and a chemist are forced to spend hours held up in a disused cricket pavilion held hostage by an angry mob? WARDENS, written by Darren Richman and Garrett Millerick, hopes to find out as it pokes fun at some of Britain's least loved public servant...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: HIGH PLAINS, Underbelly, August 11 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 11, 2013

Set in A Unique Little Town (Ault for short), Brian Watkins' gripping one-man play HIGH PLAINS tells the extraordinary confession of Jake, a young construction worker with a dark secret and haunting tale to tell. This tale of sibling rivalry and young love has been winning plaudits across America, a...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: JEKYLL & HYDE, Assembly Roxy, August 10 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 11, 2013

The story of JEKYLL & HYDE has been reworked and reinterpreted many times since Stevenson's original novella. The text offers so much to sink your teeth into its no surprise that directors keep on coming back to it. Flipping the Bird's production keeps the key themes intact - the mad scientist, the ...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: MCNEIL AND PAMPHILON GO 8-BIT!, Pleasance Dome, August 10 2013
by Amy Hanson - August 11, 2013

Comedy duo Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon have put together an eclectic video games themed show for a short run at this year's Fringe. Featuring a number of comedy guests, 'McNeil and Pamphilon Go 8-Bit!' is a mixture of sketches based on games and spectator gaming, complete with painful forfeits f...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: THE SORRIES, Quaker Meeting House, August 10 2013
by Amy Hanson - August 11, 2013

For all that they take their name and claim inspiration from Scotland's most famous folk duo The Corries, this is no mere tribute act. What Douglas Kay and Martin Philip do take from the band that gave Scotland its national anthem is a spirit of easy banter, from jokes about their own souvenir me...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: PREEN BACK YER LUGS, Pleasance Dome, August 10 2013
by Amy Hanson - August 11, 2013

Amidst all of the questions of what the consequences of next year's independence referendum could be, nobody seems to have asked what would happen to an independent Scotland after a worldwide apocalypse. Until now, that is. Preen Back Yer Lugs offers some excellent satirical points on national ide...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: VOICES IN YOUR HEAD - THE PHILL JUPITUS EXPERIMENT, August 10 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 10, 2013

Improvisation is very much a fringe staple and one that can seem all too familiar, when you've seen the umpteenth troupe of drama students playing the same WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY games. Deborah Frances-White's Voices in Your Head project seems to have found a way to reinvent the genre....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: THE ADVENTURES OF CAROLINE AND MR CLOWN, Gilded Balloon, August 10 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

Join Caroline Rhea of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Phineas and Ferb and her new best friend, Mr Clown, an adorable, quick-witted puppet, as they sing, play and joke their way through basic language skills, manners, and other exciting life lessons in this playful interactive multi-media show...

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: WRONG SIDE OF THE DOOR, Underbelly, August 9 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

The Grandees present The Wrong Side of the Door, three short plays taking the imagination on a roller coaster adventure of bizarre and wonderful character comedy....

EDINBURGH 2013- BWW Reviews: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON SHOW, Pleasance Dome, August 9 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

With brand new tricks and a mind-reading fish, Edinburgh's favourite magical dragon returns....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: SINCERELY, MR TOAD, Pleasance Dome, August 9 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

Trapped in a mundane existence, Kenneth Grahame longed to write wild adventure tales and pursue his love of nature and literature. Then one day a stranger tried to put a bullet through his head and he was never the same again....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: MINNIE AND MONA PLAY DEAD, Dairy Room, August 9 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

Minnie and Mona are best friends who are destined to end up apart. Minnie wants to play cheeky unicorns. Mona wants to be dead. Real dead. Forever. This show is about suicide....

EDINBURGH 2013- BWW Reviews: SAM ROSE IN THE SHADOWS, Bedlam Theatre, August 9 2013
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2013

Sam Rose has been carrying a box with him for five years. His box is filled with sadness and he has to take it with him everywhere he goes....

EDINBURGH 2013 - BWW Reviews: JOHN LLOYD: LIFF OF QI, Underbelly, August 10 2013
by Adrian Bradley - August 10, 2013

Despite having never passed a BBC recruitment board in his life, John Lloyd has none-the-less been responsible for some of the greatest TV and Radio comedies broadcast in the UK over the last 40 years. From JUST A MINUTE to QI, via BLACKADDER, SPITTING IMAGE and of course NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS -...