Reading Time: 3 minutesThe paradigm of Wildean comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, By Oscar Wilde, is “a trivial play for serious people”. The play follows characters, richly saturated with eccentricity, and their romantic ramblings within the rigidly ritualistic Victorian upper class.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Edinburgh International Improv Festival wrapped up on the 8th of March, and it did so with a handful group improv shows (an appropriate send off for a festival so community led).
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Thursday the 5th of March, The Edinburgh International Improv Festival commenced for the eighth-year running. Since 2019, EIIF has welcomed Improv Comedians from all over to the hazardous streets of Edinburgh. And the festival has a great deal of heart.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe year-round Edinburgh theatre scene has had a resurgence in absurdism. Theatre practitioners are experimenting and audiences are invested, while critics continue to flail at its mere presence. This is an exciting backdrop, one filled with potential, for Gutter Theatre’s debut production of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.