Featuring live music and a cast of four actors that take on a lot of different roles, Alex & Eliza is a delight from start to finish. The piece tells […]
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Category: Music
Cabaret – Festival Theatre
Cabaret is set in Berlin in 1931 in the underworld of clubs, particularly, The Kit Kat Klub. It’s New Year’s Eve and midnight is about to strike when American author, […]
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The Drift – Traverse Theatre
The Drift is a spoken word piece written and performed by Hannah Lavery. It gorgeously asserts the active nature of history in Scotland today. In 2014, Lavery’s father died just when they were starting to talk after a period of estrangement. In The Drift, Lavery explores how her uncertain relationship with her father informed and defined her relationship with Scotland as a person of ‘mixed’ ethnicity, and how that link is just as important today as it ever was.
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Fly Me to the Moon – Traverse Theatre
‘Fly Me to the Moon’ follows Francis and Loretta, two community care workers who find their elderly charge dead in his bathroom. When they realise they can gain from his death, they delve into morally grey areas.
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Annie – Edinburgh Playhouse
As a wide-eyed ten-year-old who loved musical theatre, Annie was the bread and butter of my childhood. I even had an Annie-themed musical theatre party where my friends and I all sang ‘Hard Knock Life’. So imagine my excitement at hearing that Annie was touring nationally this year.
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Big: The Musical
Big, at the Dominion Theatre in London, is based on the 1988 American film starring Tom Hanks. Oftentimes adapting a musical from a film can lead to less convincing scores and a feeling of shoehorning a plot into a musical setting.
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