✭✭✭✭✭ A maverick theatre director has been murdered while working on a stage version of Hitchcock’s Psycho. The police are investigating and through their investigation, the story of the production, the director and the suspects, particularly the leading lady will emerge. Along the way, there will be light comedy, dark comedy, and brutal insights into […]
Review: NewsRevue
✭✭✭✭ Following the BBC’s decision to cancel Mock the Week, this show provides refreshing proof that political satire is alive and well. Opening with Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Priti Patel and Nadine Dorries performing a medley of songs from The Greatest Showman – with reworked lyrics becoming a homage to the man who possibly believed […]
Festival in rude health as the show goes on
Lucy Porter returns this year (pic: Terry Murden) Talk of a less vibrant Edinburgh Festival this year is overdone, says arts correspondent ANDY MOSELEY Anyone taking a walk through Edinburgh can the see the unmistakeable signs of something familiar coming our way. The pop-up bars, box offices and promotional hoardings wrapped around railings and lamp-posts […]
It’s the Festival, but not as we know it
The Festival may be absent from Edinburgh’s streets, but the show goes on, writes ANDY MOSELEY The curtain has come down on the last remaining hope of a live Fringe show in Edinburgh this summer. Comedian Arthur Smith, who has performed at the Fringe almost every year since 1977, had been expected to keep a […]
Counting the cost as the show no longer goes on
Cancelling the Edinburgh Festivals has denied playwright ANDY MOSELEY a big opportunity and he fears some venues may not re-open 2020 was to be my year. Or so I thought. Just three weeks ago, I received an offer from Underbelly to put on my new play Make-up at The Wee Coo. Ten years after I […]