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Review: Chriskirkpatrickmas – Seven Dials Playhouse
I missed Chriskirkpatrickmas when it enjoyed a strong run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, but thank goodness that’s been put right! Alison Zatta & Valen Shore’s love song to 90’s…
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Review: Cinderella – Brixton House
Brixton House is offering a fresh, musical take on the Cinderella story this Christmas. Sindi-Ella (Yanexi Enriquez) is a passionate produce grower, grieving the loss of her greengrocer dad, and…
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Review: Aganeza Scrooge – Tron Theatre
Johnny McKnight’s Aganeza Scrooge makes a welcome return to The Tron for Christmas 2023. Despite premiering a few years ago now, the script’s cheeky humour remains fresh in the capable…
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Review: Aladdin – Macrobert Arts Centre
Johnny McKnight makes a wonderful return to the Macrobert Arts Centre Pantosphere, with madcap disco adventure, Aladdin. More Saturday Night Laundrette Fever rather than Arabian Nights, this panto finds Aladdin…
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Review: Ghosts – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Henrik Ibsen’s 1881 play, Ghosts, considered by many the first modern play, is perfectly set within the intimate confines of the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse. Intimacy, or rather its denial, lies…
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Review: The Witches – National Theatre
The Witches is sensational, I have no notes. Despite this, theQR’s M.O. rather demands I provide you with a few. Where to start? Perhaps with Lucy Kirkwood’s faithful, but unslavish…
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Review: The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan – Edinburgh
The King’s Pantomime returns, The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan playing at the Festival Theatre, whilst repairs and upgrades continue at The Grand Old Lady of Leven Street. A sequel,…
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It’s a Dear Billy Encore: Scottish Reunion tour beckons
Ahoy readers! theQR has some cracking news for you – Dear Billy is back in action, and you should all be buzzing! After a belter of a run in 2023,…
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Review: The Snow Queen – Royal Lyceum
Morna Young’s particularly Edinburgensian adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s perpetually popular The Snow Queen will delight audiences of all ages this Christmas season. In this telling, teenage chums Gerda (Rosie…
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Review: Christmas Oratorio – RSNO
Reviewer: William J. Quinn The RSNO kicked off the Christmas reviewing season at theQR in epic but challenging style with Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio. His 2019 mediation upon the…
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Sound the Klaxon – ambitious new Spoken word night coming to Leith
Halfway down Leith Walk, at the beloved Leith Depot, a Spoken word phenomenon is set to unfold, orchestrated by formidable duo, Paul Case and Lloyd Robinson. In an exclusive long-read…
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‘It is a lot all at once, but I do enjoy it.’ – Shawna Hamic & Tom Lowe talk ‘Unfortunate’.
In an ambitious collision of Disney magic and irreverent humour, the upcoming musical parody ‘Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch’ promises to redefine the narrative you thought…
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Review: The Mongol Khan – London Coliseum
Mongolian Epic, The Mongol Khan arrives in London with all the lavish national majesty of an Olympic opening ceremony and a story fit for the grandest of tragic opera. Indeed,…
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Christmas 2023 – Kyle Gardiner talks Aganeza Scrooge
In the shadow of the pantosphere’s merriment lies Dickensian Street, home to the formidable Aganeza Scrooge, a miser with a vendetta against Christmas cheer. Enter Kyle Gardiner, fresh from a…
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Review: Learning to Fly – Traverse Theatre
James Rowland brings his self-penned show, Learning to Fly back to Edinburgh, after a successful run during the 2022 August Fringe at Summerhall. Traverse 2 sees the show brought into…
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Review: No Spray, No Lay – St. Augustine’s Church
No Spray, No Lay, the creative child of Writers and Creative Directors – Kat Dobell & Lara Dunning has arrived at St. Augustine’s Church. Doubtless inspired by first-hand experience of…
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Review: Čičić directs Vivaldi – Dunedin Consort – Queen’s Hall
Reviewer: William Quinn The Dunedin Consort were in upbeat form this November 16th, with a programme devoted entirely to the work of Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741). Drawing mainly from German…
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Review: The Ghosts of North Leith – Citadel Arts Group
Leith treasures, the Citadel Arts Group, are currently summoning the dead to North Leith Parish Church, with The Ghosts of North Leith. The play, which received a warm welcome at…
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Review: Bihlmaier/Goerner & RSNO – Rachmaninov – Usher Hall
Reviewer: William J. Quinn The RSNO were in fine form under guest conductor Anja Bihlmaier this November 10th, putting visiting piano virtuoso Nelson Goerner straight to work in a full-on…
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Review: Chalk – EGTG – Assembly Roxy
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group (EGTG) manifested the UK premiere of Walt McGough‘s Chalk this November. If any evidence of the groups’ continued vigour after 69 years in business was…
