The acrobatic version of Swan Lake should upset all right-thinking ballet lovers. However, a packed Opera House was hooked line and sinker.
While comedy wraps its tentacles around Edinburgh, theatre on the Fringe tends to fare best when it puts on its most serious face.
Daniel Kitson has plumped for the homespun theatrical storytelling style of Alan Bennett. The result is the treat of the Fringe.
Architecting is a witty and frequently surrealist piece delivered with verve by an attractive and enthusiastic young company.
Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed a sequel to the musical We Will Rock You
will be brought to the stage
Small Change lives up to its title and gets locked in a repetitive, emotional
cycle, says Nicholas de Jongh.
It is difficult to connect with what the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre troupe
conveys despite wonderful performances.
Cirque De Soleil opens with a staggering performance from two Chinese acrobats
but the rest of the show is unexpectedly awful.
An extraordinary 12-hour performance of Shakespeares histories at the
Roundhouse was electrified by Lex Shrapnel as Hotspur.
Rebecca Lenkiewiczs inept new version of An Enemy of the People veers
between grating modernism and old-fashioned solecism, says Nicholas de Jongh.