Articles by Jane Prinsley

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“What are you doing here” asks the interviewer at Nuri’s asylum assessment.

Sweeney Todd - the Victorian Melodrama

Opera della Luna's latest production of Sweeney Todd will show you the barber as you have never seen or heard him before.

Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel

Will Gompertz feels like an old friend, not because I have ever met him, but because I have grown up with his inciteful and interesting contributions as the BBC’s arts editor.

Hallowed Ground – Women Doctors in War

Review
★★★★
Jane Prinsley
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
17th Aug, 2019

Lilian, Catherine, Mary and Tam all have one thing in common, they risk their lives to serve their country and save the lives of others.

Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...]

Remarkably, if you wander into The Traverse at 9am, you will find an audience willing to watch a rehearsed reading of a brand-new play and not a spare seat in the house.

Miss AmeriKa

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

The Kaye Hole

Shabbat shalom misfits, Reuben Kaye is back in town.

Mustard

Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show about heart break and madness is crammed with life, wit and tragedy.

F. Off

The National Youth Theatre have put Mark Zuckerberg on trial.

A Grave Situation

This World War II farce is a good choice for a 25-strong company to showcase their talents, with a wide range of roles on show.

What Girls Are Made Of

Scruffy indie kids have inherited the world and Cora Bissett rules supreme.

The Female Role Model Project

The Female Role Model Project is just that, a project.

Trainspotting Live

Iconic is not a strong enough word for novelist Irvine Welsh’s generation-defining masterpiece, Trainspotting.

Birth

Life and death, love and loss, birth and miscarriage are all explored in this visual cycle of life.

Buzz

A body is washed up on the shores of the Faroe Islands, rain softly splatters on a coat, a video projection comes into view and live music fills our ears.