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Willy Russell's The Blood Brothers - Bill Kennwright in arrangement
with Bob Swash - Set in Liverpool as it changes and tracking the story
of boy twins seperated at birth.
Review - Embodies
the two brothers.
Toured UK in Autumn 2005.
Rambert Dance Company - Two new works one each by Christopher Bruce and
Rafael Bonachela and Constant Speed by Mark Baldwin danced to the music
of Franz Lehar.
Review - Extremely
diverse repertoire.
Toured in Autumn 2005.
Half Life - Necessary Angel Theatre Company (Canada), Perth Theatre
and The Tron Theatre A co-production. - What shines through when memory
fades away? Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home and begin to fall
in love, thinking they are rekindling an old flame. While the couple rediscover
beauty and love in the twilight of their lives, their relationship sparks
different reactions in their children. John Mighton offers clues and plays
tricks to keep us guessing at the truth. Directed by Daniel Brooks.This
Perth Theatre co-production is touring Toronto, Quebec City, Montreal
and Ottawa.
Review - Acutely
toned.
Toured in Autumn 2005 to Scotland and Canada.
Ubu The King - Tron Theatre Company / Dundee Rep / Bite:05 / Barbican
/ The Young Vic - As part of Young Genius - Alfred Jarry's glorious,
scandalous Ubu The King is given a contemporary twist in this adaptation
of Alfred Jarry's play by David Greig. Gerry Mulgrew stars as the vulgar
and foul-mouthed Ubu as an elderly Macbeth for our modern world. Aided
and abetted by his wife, Dad Ubu rises to power by assassinating King
Vassily of Khazakstan and taking his crown.
Review - More
comic delusional than political satire.
Toured Scotland and London in Autumn 2005.
The Obituary Show - People Show 114 - Scottish Premiere. Numbering
116 shows, People Show has performed all over the UK and internationally
in streets, fields, dance halls, telephone boxes, toilets, parks, trains
and even in theatre. Now in its 39th year, the company invite you to enter
their world where live music, soundtrack, dancing and extraordinary visuals
weave the texture of the show. Traverse 2.
Review - Refreshing
action show also poignant.
Toured to Scotland and England in Autumn 2005.
Macbeth - Out of Joint - Relocating Shakespeare's classic to an
African state, Max Stafford Clarke directs this compelling site-specific,
promenade production. With two sell-out runs in London already and a limited
capacity for performances in Edinburgh, we advise booking early for this
show. At India Buildings, entrance through Cowgate.
Review - Increasing
our understanding.
World Tour in Autumn 2005.
A Brief History of Helen of Troy - atc & Drum Theatre - Scottish
Premiere. Previously at the Traverse with hit shows One Minute and Jeff
Koons, atc return with a provocative insight into the politics of beauty
and the helter-skelter world of adolescence from up-and-coming New York
playwright Mark Schultz. Traverse 1.
Review - Deeply
disturbing and extremely funny.
Toured Uk in Autumn 2005.
Twelfth Night - Theatre Royal Plymouth and Thelma Holt - Matthew
Kelly plays Malvolio in Patrick Mason's take on Shakespeare's play about
shipwrecked twins the havoc they and Sir Toby Belch nearly create to lovelorn
Orsino and Olivia.
Review - Lacklustre
piece.
Toured Scotland and England in Autumn 2005.
The Woman In Black - PW Productions - Stephen Mallatratt's spine
chilling adatation of Susan Hill's gripping novel has thrilled the West
End for 16 years.
Review - Dark
brew of mystery and foreboding.
Toured Scotland and England in Autumn 2005.
Willy Russell's The Blood Brothers - Bill Kennwright in arrangement
with Bob Swash - Set in Liverpool as it changes and tracking the story
of boy twins seperated at birth.
Review - Embodies
the two brothers.
Toured Scotland and England in Autumn 2005.
Glyndebourne On Tour
Tangier Tattoo - - Glyndebourne - J Lunn's opera. Sung in English. An
operatic thriller designed to appaeal to 20 - 30 year olds in its world
premier.
Review - Enough
to interest but not to endure.
Toured 2005 Nov - Dec to England and Edinburgh with two other productions.
National Beijing Opera Company Of China - Scottish Premieres Lead
by the renowned Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu a troupe of 50 actors and musicians.
Beijing Opera is a blend of of dance, drama, music, mime and acrobatics
and goes back to the 13th century. The plays reflect this dramatic form's
considerable range.
Forest OF The Wild Boars - A tale of jealousy, murder plots and
redeeming friendship based on the literary classic All Men Are Brothers.
Review - Intensity
and beauty.
Legend Of The White Snake - One of China's most famous epics, a
love story filled with incarnations, magic herbs and undrwater spirits.
Review - Astounds
and touches hearts.
Tour details on National Beijing
Opera Company Of China website.
Comedy of Errors - Northern Broadsides - Directed by Barrie Rutter
and performed by his company that has a rugged style. Venue Main Theatre
Review - Warms
up nicely.
Sweet William - Northern Broadsides - Also directed by Barrie Rutter
a hilarious new play from Alan Plater.
Review - Theatre-phobe
converted.
Toured in Uk till mid June 2005.
Two Gentlemen of Verona and Julius Caesar - Royal Shakespeare Company
- A comedy and a tragedy are brought north to one Scottish venue.
A chance to see a premiere company who get out and about.
Review - Comedy
delight/storms are electrical.
Toured Spring 2005 in UK.
Ketzal - Derevo - Ketzal is Anton Adassinsky's déjà
vu of the body; it is a song of the body. After years of working in a
number of different modes - from romantic stories in Once to heavy metal
in La Divina Commedia, from mystical stories in Red Zone to ballads in
Islands in the Stream - Derevo returns to an idea of onstage simplicity.
Derevo is a modern-dance-buto-russian-avant-garde-comedia dell'arte-clowning-performance-physical-theatre-art-happening
company. Uk Premiere.
Tour dates More may appear in future on their website.
Review - Communicates
using a separate language.
Toured to Glasgow and Germany.
Jackson's Way - Underbelly - A chance to see the Fringe hit and
winner of the Perrier Comedy Award 2004. Part theatre, part comedy, it's
a modern day parody of American motivational speakers and a satire on
the world of self-help and corporate jargon. Trav 1.
Review - His
mission is catching.
Toured 12 Feb - 20 March in UK.
Peter Pan - Northern Ballet Theatre - A new production by David Nixon
based on J M Barrie's 100 year old play with designs by Peter Mumford
and music by Stephen Warbeck. From a company who fuses theatre and dance
to create magic. Take flight with Wendy, her brothers and that boy who
wouldn't grow up Peter Pan.
Review - Swords,
dance and flying!
Tour in Uk in Spring 2005.
Rebecca - Starring Michael Havers as Maxim de Winter in Frank Mcguinness's
adaptation of Daphne de Maurier's thriller in a production which goes
on from Edinburgh to London and New York.
Review - Painstaking
plot setting.
Toured Spring 2005 in UK.
Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling - Re-choreographed and redesigned new
version of Bourne's 1994 reworking of La Sylphide. A young Jimmy from
Glasgow is drawn from his nuptial bed and taken on a journey, full of
the humour and zest of Bourne.
Review - Intelligent,
imaginative ...stays true - and fun.
Toured UK and Japan in 2005.
There is No Doubt about It - Randers EgnsTeater (Denmark) - Imaginate
Children's International Theatre Festival - The story of Hans Christian
Andersen's life told by a wonderful theatre production. 5 - 10 year olds.
50 mins.
Review - Expectant
hush rewarded.
Toured in Scotland June 2005.
Crossings by Clare Duffy - Sgript Cymru - World Premiere. From
Wales' new writing company comes this story of Jane and her journey to
find out about herself and what it means to be young, in love and alive
in a confusing world. (Crossings contains some strong language and one
scene of a sexual nature.) Trav 2.
Review - One
actor really serves script.
Toured may - June 2005 in Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
The Third Man - Red Shift Theatre Company - In 1948 Vienna people
reinvent themselves when novelist Rollo Martins' friend dies he discovers
a trail of intrigue in by Jonathan Holloway's adaptation of Graham Greene's
evocative novel.
Review - Decent
show but not a wow.
Toured until 19 March 2005 in Scotland and England.
Love, Sex and Cider - Jacuzzi Theatre - follow the lives of four
hormone-ridden Geordie teenagers in a particularly eventful week. A hilarious
reminder for those that can remember and an insight for those that can't,
of the trials and tribulations of youth. RECOMMENDED AGE 14+. Contains
moderate language and sexual references.
Review - Element
of ‘class tourism’.
Toured Jan 2005.
Rain - Cirque Eloize - One of the most original circus companies
in the World based in Quebec bring a show where story has a circus rehearsal
is happening in a theatre so theatre and reality fuse and transform one
another.
Review - Stunning
monsoon of a show.
Toured to Scotland and Wales end of 2004/begining of 2005..
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