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Funny Girl
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 21st Apr, 2017
Revivals always run the risk of not resonating with a contemporary audience, or relying wholly on nostalgia, but Michael Mayer’s touring production of the Fanny Brice story, m…
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 2nd Mar, 2017
Nostalgia is big business.
TOM, the Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 17th Mar, 2016
Everyone has a story about Tom, says the narrator.
James III: The True Mirror
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 9th Feb, 2016
Like the first, the final play in Rona Munro’s James Plays is part family saga, part love story.
James II: Day of the Innocents
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 9th Feb, 2016
Day of the Innocents takes place on the same set as the first James play, but it feels somewhat different thanks to subtle changes of dressing and lighting.
James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 9th Feb, 2016
There’s the feel of a gladiatorial arena to the staging of Rona Munro’s trilogy of James Plays, not least because some audience members seated on a raised area above the sta…
The Sound of Music
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 7th Jan, 2016
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II didn’t shirk from social issues within their musical theatre productions: racism (South Pacific), transient/absent fatherhood (Carouse…
Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- Greenside Lane
- 17th Dec, 2015
Australia is home to many curious creatures; a place where men are macho, except when they put on a frock, heels and make-up to sing along to disco classics.
Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- West End
- Criterion Theatre
- 18th Oct, 2015
If you grew up in the 1970s it was almost compulsory to know the music of Burt Bacharach and lyrics of Hal David - Alfie, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Look of Love and What the World N…
A Bench On The Road
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall
- 25th Feb, 2015
Billed as “a story of women’s courage, of sisterhood and pride”, A Bench on the Road is a work in progress based on the true experiences of Italian immigrants, Scottish-bo…
Journey's End
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 5th Feb, 2015
With the death of the last surviving veterans a few years back, the so-called Great War of 1914-18 slipped from living memory, but some records remain preserved none-the-less, n…
BFG
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 9th Dec, 2014
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre always has a Christmassy feel to it, with its gilded pillars and Arabian Nights ceiling, and this enchanting adaptation feels like an early Ch…
Ukulele Workshop With Tricity Vogue - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rae Macintosh Musicroom
- 4th Aug, 2014
Last year I bought myself a ukulele but I have to confess that most of the time it looks really cute hanging on my wall.
Cabaret Roulette
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Street
- 5th Aug, 2014
PHB’s Free Fringe often uses some odd venues and this one, in the small disco downstairs at The Street, is cramped with awkwardly-shaped seating making it difficult for the whole…
Burton
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 2nd Aug, 2014
The tiny venue was packed so tight for the opening performance of Burton no one in the audience dared breathe.
Trainspotting
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Drama Lodge
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Is it really 20 years since the publication of Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting? This immersive stage version adapts Danny Boyle’s celluloid presentation of the novel brings…
Hiraeth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th Aug, 2014
Bud wants to leave home, but when doing so breaks the tradition of four generations of farmers in rural West Wales, it is a tough decision for the aspiring artist.
Bianco
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- NoFit State Big Top
- 30th Jul, 2014
A few years ago I took my children to a circus.
Rumpelstiltskin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
Don’t be put off by the title: this is a completely fresh reworking of the 19th century story by the Brothers Grimm.
Soul to Soul (I Have a Dream) by Movin' Melvin Brown
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
American song and dance man Movin’ Melvin Brown is not content to have just one show at the Fringe (The Ray Charles Experience), or two (an interactive workshop Tap into Health -…
Jamie Andrew Life and Limb
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Each time a mountain rescue is reported in the media, it is difficult not to think ‘Why would they climb that alone/in that weather/at that time of year?’ But the truth for som…
Adventures of Andy Kershaw
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Kershaw has had a lot of bad press over the last decade for his personal life but he’s back on track and promoting his autobiography No Off Switch at the Auditorium, Ghillie Dhu …
Snoopy the Musical
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
As part of the American High School Theatre Festival at Church Hill Studio Theatre in Bruntsfield, Van Buren High School brought to life the colourful and well-loved characters fro…
Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
The Edinburgh Academy makes for a spacious yet slightly odd choice of venue for music and comedy due Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel.
Tony Benn and Richard Holloway: Two Old Gits
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
Journos
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
TTMOOTV Theatre & Film Company’s Journos is the new play by producer/actor Jamie Alexander Eastlake and co-writer/actor Adam Donaldson who did rather well at last year’s Fringe…
Three Half Pints
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Last year I regretted not taking my junior reviewers to see the Three Half Pints.
Punk Rock
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
This tense drama, nominated for two best new play awards in 2010, centers around the lives of seven young people as they sit their mock ‘A’ Levels at a public school.
Val McDermid - Killing People For Fun and Profit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
As a writer I am always keen to find out how other writers tap into their creative process, and the opportunity to delve into the mind of such a prolific writer as Val McDermid in …
Susie McCabe: An Uncivil Partnership
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
About as far down the opposite end of the spectrum from disappointing as you could get, McCabe’s set is an insight into her coming out at the age of 17 (her dad asked, ‘Susie, …
Vanessa Knight
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Vanessa Knight is the most glamorous thing to come out of Birmingham since Duran Duran.
Writing Plays for Young People
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Head of Drama at Trinity College London, John Gardyne does not lecture in the art of playwriting, yet he makes an engaging host for this one-hour workshop encouraging the craft.
Arthur Conan Doyle Experience
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Despite being described in the Fringe brochure as a ‘walk and talk exhibition’, the audience of the Arthur Conan Doyle Experience was sat in a lecture room upon arrival and a s…
Threesome
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
How do you stop people from getting scared by the word ‘feminism’? Why do we live in a world that presents the size zero as the bodily ideal, and any normal, curvaceous figure …
Kindness
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Sam Brady ushers us into his gig and then darts behind the curtain to announce his own entrance.
Aurora Winterborn's Candid Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
The rise in popularity of Burlesque at the Edinburgh Fringe means there is sometimes no telling what is tacky and what is classy.
The Loveboat Big Band Summer Love-In
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
Classical Guitar - Jonathan Prag
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
Any single live performance can be affected by many things; a cold venue, a small audience, a slightly fidgety child in the second row (BBR8, sorry!), but when a performer is bille…
Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
This series of free events gives the public a chance to see, listen to and meet Scottish literary performers, from poets to crime novelists, folk musicians to a-capella singers; a …
The Noise Next Door: Bring The Noise
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
I’ve never been a huge fan of improvisational comedy for its sheer clever-dick-ness and the prospect of spending an hour with five testosterone-fueled young guns filled my heart …
Luminous Tales
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Shadow puppetry has delighted people for about 1,000 years and little has changed.
Pips and Panda Meet the Three Bears
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
The thoughtful touch at this venue was two rows of weenie seats at the front that my petit companion Olivia (4) announced she was going to sit in, next to the girl at the front.
Funny Women at the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
A soggy Sunday afternoon spent in a cosy tent with the rain pitter-pattering on the roof felt much better than the battle of brollies it took to get there.
Colours of Tango
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
To say that the audience was full of women of a certain age at Colours of Tango would be slightly unfair.
Antigone
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
The last time I ‘did Greek’ was the NTS’s production of The Bacchae with Alan Cumming.
The Three Half Pints
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
If I were an anthropologist or a linguist I could write a thesis on non-verbal communication through shared laughter.
Chinese Music Traditional and New
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
The connection between traditional Scottish music and Chinese music is something I had given no thought to until this concert, but the Harmony Ensemble changed all that with their …
Moon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Given that I am Welsh and probably genetically hardwired to love close-harmony singing, I do not normally go out of my way to find it.
Lady Carol Must Die
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
There’s a definite buzz on George Street.
Dancing About Architecture
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
The host for this chat show is Mark Olver, a stand up who has supported Russell Howard on tour and is the warm-up for such television favourites as Deal or No Deal and Vicar of Dib…
Kevin Dewsbury: In...Sane - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
There’s a familiar traditional-northern-comic style about Kevin Dewsbury as he welcomes the audience to the room above the Meadows Bar, mixed with a bit of laddish banter.
Forget Therapy - Just Drink - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
It promised to be a fun show.
And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Two women, one food queue and one unlikely friendship.
Fag Ends and Families...!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Simon Egerton is already playing the electric piano when we enter the bar.
Sarah McIntosh: 11 hours of James Plays in one day? Challenge Accepted.
- Feature
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- 13th Feb, 2016
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
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