Shows
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Scottish Ballet Triple Bill
These pieces substitute a reliance on overt narrative for the atmosphere created by the sheer thrill of movement. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Puppet Lab
The puppets are beautifully made and manipulated, but the recorded voiceover detracts from their lifelike movements Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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The Memorandum
Human moments stand out - but not enough to make this production come fully alive Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Mamma Mia! Theatre Review
Mamma Mia!' is a big sparkly musical based on ABBA's sunny, multi-layered pop tracks. The story of four popular Swedish musicians becoming a supergroup is equally big, sparkly and sunny, right up until the climax - but there's no happy ending. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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See How They Run
A charming comedy of manners, mistaken identity and ""ooh, vicar!"" licentiousness Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Princess Ida
Princess Ida' is typical Gilbert and Sullivan fare, but Edinburgh University's Savoy Opera Group do a very respectable job of trying to make it watchable. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Grease
This production is loud, ostentatious and over the top - exactly as Grease should be. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
(not sure about star rating yet, Marcie is getting back to me) Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Leningrad Siege
A clever piece of entertainment - the friends are sensitively and humourously written, translated and acted. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Conversations in Havana
From the first piercing image of Che (Gerald Kyd) sitting in an army jacket coughing, smoking and downing mugs of something clear, lethal and probably Cuban,... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Blood Wedding
Spain is never far away in the imagination Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Trainspotting
Harry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's celebrated novel, currently on its tenth anniversary tour, is a little hard to adjust to: it necessarily leaves o... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Get Carter
Up-front and uncompromising. Misogyny, corruption and violence hang round Carter like a cloud. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Festivals
The National Review of Live Art
It is a brave soul that dares to shout "you're naked," at an emperor convinced he's clad in the most exquisite finery known to man. At points throughout The ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Previews
Scottish Ballet RE-EDIT
Their winter tour of 'Cinderella' barely behind them, Scottish Ballet forego a well deserved break and begin their spring tour, a programme of three works that have helped propel ballet into the 21st century. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006