Posts by Scottish Field
Where to live in the Scottish Highlands
Sponsored Content | If you are considering living in the Scottish Highlands how do you decide where best to live? With many factors such as accessibility, amenities, travel, work, schooling, further education, the cost of living, and weather conditions to consider, it is important to understand what each area of the Highlands can offer. Garrington…
Read MoreFringe Review: Sisyphean Quick Fix
Sisyphean Quick Fix is a wonderful production, beautifully written and executes perfectly, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ The play starts with the noise of soothing soft waves lapping onto a beach in Malta. It’s not too long until these lapping waves are turned into a tempest and the waves crash over two daughters trying to look after…
Read MoreEverybody’s Talking About Jamie: Teen Edition
Ailsa Bath is impressed with this school production. ★★★★ Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is a fun, well-coordinated, energetic play about a young boy finding his place in the world. It is based on a true story and has been a hot show before coming to Edinburgh. What really stood out was the amazing vocal performance…
Read MoreFringe Review: Bark Bark
Bark Bark is a technically difficult production which serves up a wonderful story, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★ This is technically an ambitious production. Bark Bark tells the tale of two house sitters rekindling their love affair through the eyes of a bird killing dog called ‘It’. Although the dog is a bird killer ‘It’ charms…
Read MoreFringe Review: Margolyes & Dickens The Best Bits
Ailsa Bath enjoys this ‘brilliant’ performance from Miriam Margolyes. ★★★★ Knowing Miriam mainly from her salacious chat shows, Harry Potter cameo and regular appearances with Graham Norton, I wasn’t prepared for the incredible acting skills she brought to the stage in this bravura one-woman show. Despite being a solo performance, this enthralling show truly…
Read MoreFringe Review: Apricity
Apricity is much more than acrobatic circus with acts of seemingly impossible feats of bravery, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★★ Apricity is defined as ‘the warmth of sun in winter’ and the show is advertised as dance, physical theatre and circus. This show is all it’s advertised to be and more. The opening sequence of candle…
Read MoreFringe Review: The Dreamer
Fiona Tenneb praises James Phelan’s awe-inspiring show. ★★★★ ‘Surround yourself with the dreamers. The doers, the believers and the thinkers. But most of all surround yourself with those that see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.’ Unlikely but beautiful words to start a thought provoking magic show that got my…
Read MoreFringe Review: PALS
This production is ‘a wonderful way to be entertained and laugh’, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★ This is a funny, slightly chaotic play that will leave you uplifted. PALS is the tale of four Edinburgh girlfriends. Their natural milieu is nail bars, All Bar One and nightclubs so a camping trip organised by the protagonist, Sadie,…
Read MoreFringe Review: Gamble
A bittersweet multimedia show about addiction and its effect on families, friends and communities, says Jeremy Welch. ★★★ This play is dealing with a weighty matter, the consequences of gambling. Not the Grand National once a year flutter gamble but the compulsive, corrosive and ultimately destructive result of gambling addiction. It’s difficult to get the…
Read MoreFringe Review: 1984
Jeremy Welch praises Sofia Barvsevich’s near sell-out production as ‘brave, brutal, disturbing and absolutely relevant’. ★★★★★ ‘War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.’ George Orwell. Almost everyone knows this dyspotian quote from Big Brother. This production is quite remarkable as in one hour it condenses Orwell’s 1984 novel perfectly. There is almost…
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