Blue, Edinburgh
Lucas Miller reviews this Edinburgh restaurant, ideally positioned with close proximity to that city's most important venues for theatre and film.
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The Man Who Had All the Luck, by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s earliest play to run on the Broadway stage, The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), began in the form of a novel – his student, friend and biographer Christopher Bigsby tells us in his pre-show talk on January 20. Over the course of four years, Miller wrote several drafts, unsure how best to present his themes; through which medium? through which plot? should there be an enlightened redemption or a tragic fall for his hero? From 1941 he began working the “fable” into a play. In late 1944 it arrived at the Forrest Theater, where it ran for three days and four performances before being called off the stage, a failure, though recognized by many critics as a promising indication of good work to come.
Black Watch
Black Watch
by Gregory Burke
Dir. John Tiffany
National Theatre of Scotland
St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, October 25th, 2008
Gregory Burke’s Black Watch, the sensation of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, has returned to Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse …
Black Watch from the Natonal Theatre of Scotland
The Iraq War is an infuriating abomination and I am more than happy to see anything that attacks it. I am also, as it happens, not against seeing fine theatre. Therefore, I was delighted to see two birds killed with one stone at the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of the Edinburgh Festival hit Black Watch at the Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow, as the play continues its tour through the UK, and then on to North America. [Since its first performance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 in an unused drill shed, Black Watch has played before sold out audiences and won numerous awards, not only the Fringe First, but South Bank Show Award for Theatre, the Critics’ Circle Awards (to John Tiffany as Best Director) and others. It played to sold-out audiences at St. Ann’s Warehouse,Brooklyn in October-November 2007, and will return there in October 2008. - ed.]
The Importance of Being Earnest at the Vaudeville Theatre, London
When one is in town, one amuses oneself; when one is in the country,one amuses other people.
Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest
It was with this truthful witticism in mind that I withdrew myself from the …
