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2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
Last festive season Scottish Ballet created something of a talking point with a delightful reimagining of Cinderella in which the lead role was danced by either a man or a woman on different nights. This year, it has fallen back on an old favourite, The Nutcracker, featuring the choreography of Peter Darrell, the founder of the company. First staged in 1973, Darrell’s version is regularly updated.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
The last time Dickens’s perennial favourite appeared at Northern Stage, it was in a flurry of Jazz Age glitz courtesy of Mark Calvert’s 1920s update. Natalie Ibu’s production of A Christmas Carol takes as its basis the reliable adaptation by Karen Louise Hebden, first staged in 2003, though there are plenty of innovative touches amid the stage smoke and quotable dialogue.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
The Lyceum tends to steer clear of pantomime at Christmas, though in recent years the theatre has followed the traditional panto trope of bringing topical and local references to bear on classic stories. David Greig’s An Edinburgh Christmas Carol worked wonders in transposing Dickens’s tale to Victorian Auld Reekie. This new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure has a similarly Scottish flavour.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is a show usually associated with scale, whether it be the lavish 1965 film adaptation or the 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced revival that sold out the London Palladium for its entire run. In her final production as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Elizabeth Newman marshals the story of the novice nun turned nanny Maria Rainer, who brings music, joy and love into the lives of the grieving Von Trapp family, into a more intimate space.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
The spectre of Marlon Brando hangs heavy over any production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The mix of threatening brute strength and magnetic beauty that the actor brought to his role as Stanley Kowalski, both in the 1947 stage production and the 1951 film adaptation, proved so powerful that, for years, it was Brando’s image that graced the cover of published editions of Tennessee Williams’s script.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe
There aren’t many sung-through musicals that could fill a venue the size of the Glasgow Hydro for one night only, let alone confidently embark on a 16-month arena tour, taking in some 15 countries. Les Misérables, created by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, is perhaps the only long-running show that could generate an atmosphere somewhere between a rock concert and a football match.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
bookmarkblair.com | Allan Radcliffe |Zoë Strachan |Louise Welsh
Main information
Date:
Saturday 5 October 2024
Time:
1:30 pm
Location:
Blairgowrie Community Campus PH10 6UZ
Price:
£10
Author:
Allan Radcliffe
Author:
Zoë Strachan
With:
Louise Welsh
Allan and Zoë are going to treat us all to a ‘creative conversation’. They are both writers of fiction and their work has mutual interests in themes of family, the past and changing landscapes.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Anya Ryan |Allan Radcliffe |Richard Morrison |Simon Thompson
Overwhelmed by flyers on the Mile? Lost in the zillions of options as to what to see during your time in the Scottish capital? We’ve compiled our reviews of the 2024 Edinburgh Festival and Fringe theatre, music and dance shows (if you’re looking for comedy recommendations, we have a separate list). It’s ranked according to rating, from five stars downwards and the booking details are there too: do check what is still available. This page will be updated every day in August so make sure you save it.
