Review: In Transit

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The GRV
Review by Thom Dibdin

Strong writing and interesting characters make the first outing from the Actors Kitchen something of an unexpected treat, to be found until Saturday in the small theatre of the GRV on Guthrie Street.

Unified by the theme of waiting for a delayed flight in an airport lounge, the fifteen scenes of In Transit share five  writers and nine performers. Chance encounters, hostile departures and wistful, end-of-holiday longings add up to a thought-provoking hour and a half.

Review - Edinburgh Gang Show

King’s Theatre
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Review by Thom Dibdin

Feisty, glittering and making great use of every one of its almost 200 participants, the Edinburgh Gang Show celebrates their fiftieth annual production with no little style.

When it hits the high notes, this is a strong, entertaining Variety-style production that combines some of the better elements of Gang Show originator Ralph Reader’s original sketches with Director Andy Johnston and MD John Duncan’s excellent new scripts and orchestrations.

Review - Grassic Gibbon

Festival Theatre
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Review by Thom Dibdin

SUNSET Song, and indeed the whole trilogy of novels which Lewis Grassic Gibbon called A Scots Quair flavour this new, semi-staged production about the novelist who many claim to be Scotland's greatest.

It's a fair enough flavouring by the show's author, Jack Webster, given that Grassic Gibbon was only born as a pseudonym to distinguish James Leslie Mitchell's work about his Scottish home from his other, increasingly successful English novels.

Not to mention, for this production, the appearance of Vivien Heilbron as the narrator...Link to full review in the Edinburgh Evening News...

Run ended

Preview for the week 16-22 November

It is something of a music week in Edinburgh’s theatres this week. There’s Variety from the Gang Show, concert performances and dance in the Traverse’s Autumn Festival, the continuing presence of Queen’s musical at the Playhouse and the arrival of Scottish Opera at the Festival Theatre. Oh, and one piece of (relatively) straightforward theatre from the Edinburgh-based acting collective, Actors Kitchen up at the GRV.