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The Edinburgh Makars |
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The Edinburgh Makars |
| Season's
Greetings - Alan Ayckbourn |
August 2010 |
All reviews from the Edinburgh Evening News unless otherwise stated. |  |
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| Villa
for Sale - Sasha Guitry |
April
2010
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| The
Hollow - Agatha Christie |
November 2009 |
From the outset, there is
a well-crafted and ominous sense of dysfunction brewing - Colin Blythe Read full review |
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| Last
of
the Red Hot Lovers - Neil Simon |
August 2009 |
The company ensures that
this
is a funny but poignant examination of one man coping with his own
failings as a husband - Thom Dibden *** Read
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| The
Millionairess - Bernard Shaw |
March 2009 |
True to the original and was well received. - Annabel Cooper *** Read full review | 
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| The
Worst
Day of My Life - Alan Richardson |
November 2008 |
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| How
the
Other Half Loves - Alan Ayckbourn |
August 2008 |
An entertaining production - plenty here to laugh at - Thom Dibden | 
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| Brush
With a Body - Maurice McLoughlin |
March 2008 |
Pleasantly amusing...strong characters...fun - Thom Dibden | 
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| The
Memory of Water - Shelagh Stevenson |
November 2007 |
The Edinburgh Makars... perform the work almost flawlessly - Darren Scott *** Read full review | 
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| Hay
Fever - Noel Coward |
August 2007 |
A fun evening out that does well with a notoriously difficult play ...a class comedy production - Thom Dibden *** | 
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| Separate
Tables - Terence Rattigan |
March 2007 |
The Makars may not be a fully professional company, but you wouldn't know it from their performances - Martin Lenon **** Read full review | 
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| Proscenophobia - Bettine Manktelow Bang, You're Dead - Paul Reakes |
November 2006 |
Enough good acting to mark the evening down as entertaining... Beldon and Mackenzie do a great job - Thom Dibden | 
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| Lord
Arthur Savile's Crime - Constance Cox (after Oscar Wilde) |
August 2006 |
No scene overstays its welcome and no comedy opportunity is missed, but never at the expense of solid storytelling - Martin Lenon **** Read full review | 
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| Dangerous
Corner - JB Priestley |
March 2006 |
Hugely melodramatic - while successfully pretending not to be - and enough to earn the production an extra star - Thom Dibden | 
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| Lovers - Brian Friel |
November 2005 |
A very talented cast...bodes well for the Edinburgh Makars' future - Lorraine McCann (EdinburghGuide.com) | 
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| The
Shawl
& Prairie du Chien - David Mamet |
March 2005 |
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| California
Suite - Neil Simon |
December 2004 |
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| We
Found
Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figurines Aboard the SS Farndale Avenue - David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr |
August 2004 |
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| Hedda
Gabler - Henrik Ibsen |
March 2004 |
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| The
Scottish Play - Graham Holliday |
November 2003 |
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| Plaza
Suite - Neil Simon |
August 2003 |
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| Wait
Until Dark - Frederick Knott |
March 2003 |
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| New
England - Richard Nelson |
November 2002 |
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| The
Farndale Avenue
Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr |
August 2002 |
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| When
We
Are Married - JB Priestley |
March 2002 |
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| On
Golden
Pond - Ernest Thomson |
November 2001 | 
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| Blithe
Spirit - Noel Coward |
August 2001 |
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| Play On - Rick Abbot |
March 2001 |
Barrows' talent for physical comedy and deliberate overacting was impressive...Waves of laughter emitted from the audience - Corry Craig | 
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| Dancing
at Lughnasa - Brian Friel |
November 2000 |
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| The
Steamie - Tony Roper |
August 2000 |
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| The
Mysteries - adapted by Martin Browne |
March 2000 |
A brave and unusual production - Julie Clark | 
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| The
Kidnap Game - Tudor Gates |
November 1999 |
Works well...strong stage presence of the police inspector (Kate McCarthy) - easily the star of the second act.- Moira Leonard *** | 
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| Billy
Liar - Keith Waterhouse |
August 1999 |
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| Mary
Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off - Liz Lochhead |
March 1999 |
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| A
Woman
of No Importance - Oscar Wilde |
November 1998 |
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| Relatively
Speaking - Alan Ayckbourn |
August 1998 |
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| The
Servant - Robin Maugham |
March 1998 |
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| Steel
Magnolias - Robert Harling |
November 1997 |
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| She
Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith |
August 1997 |
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| Tons
of
Money - adapted by Alan Ayckbourne |
March 1997 |
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| Diary
of
Anne Frank dramatised by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
November 1996 |
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| The
Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde |
August 1996 |
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| Barefoot
in the Park - Neil Simon |
March 1996 |
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| Play
It
Again, Sam - Woody Allen |
August 1995 |
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