Music & Lyrics: Elton John & Tim Rice Book: Roger Allers & Irene Mecchi Director, Costume Design & Mask/Puppetry Co-Design: Julie Taymor Despite the juggernaut of success with which we are familiar with, the cinematic and stage variations of Disney’s The Lion King were nothing if not tremendous gambles. And now, with records shattered, platinum soundtracks launched, and an extravagance of stage enchantment, there’s little else to add to the story which has inspired and conjured emotions for nearly thirty years. Returning to Edinburgh after the pandemic cut the run short, The Pride Lands rolls into the city again at the…
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.
Writer: Tom McGrath Director: Tony Cownie Life’s too short not to laugh. From Charlie Chaplin to Buster Keaton, Alice Howell to Mildred Davis, the silent era stars navigated the dishevelled steps of comedy gold through the early twenties to the fifties. But above them all, one duo paved the cobbles for the history of comedians – their legacy still standing tall to this day: Laurel & Hardy. The big-hearted Southern boy, and that scrappy Lancashire lad found their fame in America, and after nearly twenty years away from The Lyceum stage, Tom McGrath’s Scottish classic and love-letter to the pair revisits the stage,…
Writer: Stephen Greenhorn Director(s): Elizabeth Newman & Ben Occhipinti Scotland’s very own Jukebox musical takes the nation’s beloved Leith boys The Proclaimers, and seeds music to the book of Stephen Greenhorn to produce a musical with bite, with banter, and a flair of Scots humour. It’s a people’s musical – with a heavier brow and curled fist, the more adventurous and tongue-in-cheek brother of the West End Jukebox musicals. Freedom has a cost, and often we sell our politics, our duty and even our hearts to make the choices we want. Returning to the city of Edinburgh (more specifically Leith),…
Writer: Michael Frayn Director: Ben Occhipinti Cards on the table. We like it when things go arse-over-tit. And for every Shakespearean wonder of monolithic talent, there’s a pratfall which gets a firmer response. And in recent years, the advancements in staging and lighting and video design affords production companies the opportunities for everything to go wrong. But for forty years Noises Off has captured the quintessential ‘Britishness’ of farcical humour, where the punches are thrown upwards, inwards, outwards and all over the damn theatre in an explosive display of physical humour. Michael Frayn’s comedic piece, of a company of less…
Writer & Director: Martin McCormick It’s the big day. 2014, the first-ever Scottish cup final for St. Johnstone, Perth. And if you happened to have tickets for the match at Celtic Park, well, you’d be a bloody fool to miss it. Bobby is one such fool. Sweet F.A, 1902, A War of Two Halves – the frequently erroneous, and frankly elitist, idea of the separation of arts and sport has all but dissipated in recent years. And thankfully continuing to shatter the gatekeeping associated with theatre and football, writer and director Martin McCormick’s Oh When The Saints does tremendous work to encourage the…
Writer: Isla Cowan Director: Joanna Bowman Less than 60 short minutes is all writer Isla Cowan has to weave her powerful tale of gender, self-identity and conditioning, Alright Sunshine, currently running as part of Òran Mór’s spring season of A Play, A Pie and a Pint. Cowan’s impressive writing and Hannah Jarrett-Scott’s equally impressive acting combine perfectly to deliver this multi-layered tale. Police officer Nicky McCreadie has been conditioned from birth by her policeman father, to be the perfect officer. Giving over her private life and her personal will to be an unquestioning defender of the city of Edinburgh. Nicky…
Writer: Emily Brontë Adaptation: Emma Rice Director: Emma Rice A young boy abandoned on the Liverpool docks, his skin a different shade than those around him. A boy beaten and abused by his new brother, adored by his new father, and will change the life of his new sister – and it is only when he loses both of those who care deeply, that something malevolent emerges. This is the birth of Heathcliff. Protagonist, but no hero, of Emily Brontë’s 1847 Wuthering Heights. A man distorted by his thirst for revenge, and his passion for the young girl, Catherine, he grows…
Original Screenplay: Jonathan Lynn Writer: Sandy Rustin Director: Mark Bell There’s something in everyone’s wardrobes which causes family feuds, and it’s not that hideous vase you got for the wedding. No, for any age, across multiple generations – Cluedo has sat in the closet, brought out for rainy days or wine-fuelled game nights, and allowed the entire household to play the part of detective. Remade time over, transformed into life-size escape rooms, and a 1985 Tim Curry classic feature film with multiple endings, the concept of a Cluedo stage show is a no brainer, and really, there’s only one question… who dun it? A…