Articles by Michael Wilkinson

Hamlet! the Musical

Review
★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

The classic tale that is Hamlet has been reborn into a contemporary musical and it tries to be a lively fun-filled show.

Honk Jr

This egg-cellent production of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s Olivier award-winning family musical extravaganza is certainly something to quack about.

Singin’ Drums

The stunning, young, American-born mezzo-soprano opera singer Andrea Baker was joined for the first time on stage recently by her uncle Newman Taylor Baker, the percussionist and c…

Good Grief

Review
★★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
22nd Aug, 2012

A funeral sees the coming together of three siblings for their estranged father’s send-off, but this new musical is not really about death - it is about life and the suppressed t…

Revival!

Review
★★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2012

Revival! by Mairi Campbell and David Francis, the duo also known as ‘The Cast’, is a new companion piece to their previous Fringe outing The Red Earth.

Mod

Review
★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

Omigod, I so can’t believe I just saw that! Mod is a brash American import exploring teenage angst amid Beatle-mania as the infamous group set out on their tour of the States.

Under the Ladder

Under The Ladder is a piece of theatre that works on many levels, yet is seemingly based on a simple concept.

The Cactus Gulch Opry House

Review
★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
11th Aug, 2012

The wacky trio from The Thistle Creek Thespian Society roll into the old saloon at Cactus Gulch, New Mexico, in 1889 to entertain Mayor Maynot and the apparently simple folk of the…

Monkey Bars

Children say the funniest things, but the words they say sound even funnier when adults speak them; that is what Monkey Bars sets out to prove.

A Sky Burial

Review
★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

While chaos and violence unravel outside, within the safety and comfort of a hospital ward two strangers meet for a blind date.

Drop It

Review
★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

The memories of two people, Merridy and her father, are explored in a new devised piece, but the American company lagom’s work left me feeling confused about its narrative aims a…

Freaks at the Movies - Free

Review
★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2012

The big songs of stage and screen are being presented at the Laughing Horse Free Festival by the Cabaret Freaks.

Sleep to Wake: Robert Browning Remembers Elizabeth

2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Robert Browning’s birth, and Julian Lopez-Morillas solo performance honours the occasion with a presentation depicting one of the greatest roman…

The Yellow Wallpaper

Review
★★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

A cast of eight reinterpret The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 19th century short story, which is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician…

Visiting Time

Review
★★★
Michael Wilkinson
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2012

As Piers Fawcett lies ill in hospital suffering from AIDS, he receives a visit from his best friend Tom.

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