Book: Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Music/Lyrics: Andrew Lippa Director: Sally Lyall Captivate Theatre, bring you the perfect comedic show for all the family. Providing you the perfect take on the gloomy and whacky Addams Family. The show starts off with a brilliant musical number that entices you into the performance. The young cast grasp you from the first moment they open their mouths. The power voices within the cast bring you into the performance within the first moments. The story is fast paced and with a simple but extremely clever set of three mirror boards and six small pallet…
Author: The Reviews Hub - Scotland
The Reviews Hub - Scotland
The Scotland team is under the editorship of Lauren Humphreys. The Reviews Hub was set up in 2007. We aim to review all professional types of theatre, whether that be Commercial, Repertory or Fringe as well as Comedy, Music, Gigs etc.
After his 2019 sell out Fringe show, Clive Anderson is back, with a different guest every day. He requested all his guests to come with a list of their personal seven wonders, giving plenty of scope for conversation. One guest being Craig Hill the Scottish comedian was no exception. Hill is a naturally funny, cheeky, camp comedian with great observational humour, picking up on various Anderson comments After his first stage success at 10 in a talent competition he later studied drama at Queen Margaret University College; this training shows in his expert handling of the audience. Apart from Anderson…
Writer: Mara Menzies Director: Isla Menzies In 2019, Scottish-Kenyan creative Mara Menzies’ pure artistry debuted at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Weaving a brightly shining tapestry of storytelling narrative, Menzies draws on her Scottish and Kenyan heritage, threading together ancient mythology with a contemporary narrative and understanding of Scotland’s continued ignorance of its history and profit from colonialism and the slave trade. In 2022, it returns, this time to the Lyceum Theatre. Menzies continues to guide audiences on this tale many would prefer to ignore, and in doing so fail to recognise the continued relevance in Blood and Gold and struggle…
Writer: Robert Madge You’ve likely already seen the cute videos of the young boy, recreating the over-commercialised Magical wonder of Disney in his living room. For shame if not – in the videos of Robert Madge, Mickey Mouse signs autographs, Belle finds their Beast, Bert misses his cue, and Maleficent is once again shunted. But they’re recreating it once more; the Main Street, the Teacups, and hell, if we ask nicely, they might even show us their Thunder Mountain. Glittering far above, a projection of the family home movies accompanies Madge as they guide us through their early experience with…
Melancholy violins play as the show opens to find Watson (Michael Roy Andrew) seated. During the three years since the Reichenbach Falls affair, when Sherlock (Nigel Miles Thomas) and Professor Moriarty disappeared, Watson continues to visit 221b Baker Street and on this occasion finds a letter amongst the post addressed to him. The letter forewarns of a murder arousing Watson’s interest. Soon Sherlock turns up and ‘the game is afoot’. The audience is quickly drawn into their world and friendship. The actors portray the relationship well. The 40 year acting partnership between the two men is evident. They both give…
Director & Choreographer: Morgann Runacre-Temple & Jessica Wright Dramaturg & Adaptor: James Jeff What separates us from our electronic companions? If all it is, is flesh, then perhaps it’s time we reviewed the situation. Narratives of falling in love with a composite human, a homunculus, are as old as literature. But rarely is the concept so articulated modernised than with Coppélia. Scottish Ballet, in looking to the now not-too-distant future, revitalises the tale to hold up a rather polished chrome mirror of sorts to our obsessions with technology, improvements, and the devaluing of life. The skeleton of Arthur Saint-Léon’s Ballet…
Writer: Cecil Beaton Adaptor: Richard Stirling Director: Richard Stirling A show of one man talking about himself, which Beaton (Richard Stirling) loved to do. He begins by giving an introduction to his life as Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, later CBE, born in 1904 in Hampstead to a wealthy family. His nanny who had a Kodak Bownie first introduced him to photography, seeing his interest, she encouraged him. He relates how apart from his society photography, photographing everyone from the Queen to film stars and many famous celebrities, in his 76 years he also was a war photographer, writer, painter, diarist,…
Writer: Melanie Gall Composer/ Lyrics: Noel Coward Internationally acclaimed singer Melanie Gall has a lifelong admiration of Noel Peirce Coward. She compiled this story in celebration of his life and accomplishments, following his example and writing shows which she can perform in. Gall goes through a resume of the multi-talented Cowards life, who had his stage debut at the age of 11 and in his 74 years never looked back. She relates numerous personal facts, apart from writing 65 plays and countless songs, of which sings 16, he was a poet, story writer, singer and employed by the Secret Service.…