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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh 9th October
In her portrayal of Miss Brodie, Gayle Rankin also gives us a woman who has never really come to terms with the loss of a love that she lost in the Great War of 1914-1918, a woman who is always fighting for her and her girls’ individuality.
*****
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photo credit Mihaela Bodlovic.

Barnum Festival Theatre Edinburgh 6th October
There is a high quality to all of these songs and often dance routines too and, again, it is often Matt Rowle as Barnum who is at the centre of all of this with the same slick and often humorous approach that he uses in his many little monologues. ​
*****
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The Steamie King's Theatre Edinburgh 5th October   
Anyone who has seen this show, either on stage or on television, will never forget the classic telephone and mince and tatties scenes. We know the punch-line, many of us probably know every word of the scenes, but still that laughter never fails to fill the theatre
*****
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Scottish Ballet Emergence Festival Theatre Edinburgh 1st October
"Emergence" takes its audience into a twilight world where boundaries of individual and collective consciousness are constantly blurring lines, at times battling with one another. Music by composer Owen Belton also adds to this, at times, strange and almost hive like world of this work.
*****
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Wallace the Musical King's Theatre Edinburgh 30th September
If you are expecting a musical version of the massively popular 1995 film Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson, then this may not be the show for you as the historical fantasy in this film is swiftly de-bunked on stage. Instead, Wallace the Musical asks many questions about William Wallace, King Edward 1 of England and the wider politics of the time
****
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