Review: When Mountains Meet, The Studio, Edinburgh - a genuine immersive experience
Our review of When Mountains Meet: A Musical Journey From The Highlands To The Himalayas To Find A Lost Father
Our review of When Mountains Meet: A Musical Journey From The Highlands To The Himalayas To Find A Lost Father
The landscape is everywhere in Morna Young's new version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel. Conceived for Dundee Rep with director Finn Den Hertog, the production sets out its expansive and impressionistic store by way of rows of soil that fill designer Emma Bailey’s stage. This is accompanied by the pulsating drone of composer Finn Anderson’s score.
Take five girls. Put them in the same house together with only one borrowed designer dress to share between them in a world where dreams of poetry, dancing and clothes are on ration, and everyday desires look set to explode. So it goes in Gabriel Quigley’s appealingly breezy new adaptation of Muriel Spark’s 1973 novella, brought to life with a busy flourish in Roxana Silbert’s expansive production.
Second comings are all the rage these days, as pension plan heritage rock tours cash in on a band’s influential legacy to claim their place in history.
Michael Curtiz’s classic 1942 movie vehicle for Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was adapted for the stage as a loving tribute to Casablanca.
Review: A Giant on the Bridge, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
“Immigrants,” West Indies born Alexander Hamilton and French émigré the Marquiss de Lafayette freestyle in unison in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s globe trotting hip-hop history musical. “We get things done.” American history has gone wild in the nine years since Miranda’s show first came rhyming onto the stage like an old-skool block party on a grand scale. As Thomas Kail’s production arrives in Edinburgh for a two-month stint as part of its UK tour, Hamilton still possesses some of the unbridled optimism the Barack Obama era brought with it.
It begins with Blythe Duff’s Mrs Jarrett stumbling on Lena, Vi and Sally catching some rays as they indulge in chit chat, gossip and tittle tattle as any group of long standing friends and neighbours might do.
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