Greg Holstead

The Hero’s journey – A story of the story

The Hero’s Journey is the narrative equivalent of gravity; invisible, inevitable, and always pulling the story forward. Joseph Campbell mapped…

5 months ago

Arlington – Traverse Theatre

The most visually remarkable production to grace the Traverse Stage in years, Arlington. This new Shotput production of Enda Walsh’s dystopian…

5 months ago

The Gateway Writing Festival: Day 2 – The Studio, Edinburgh

Fresh voices, bright ideas, and the occasional spark of brilliance Now in its third year and newly housed at The…

5 months ago

Batshit – Traverse Theatre

There’s a certain audacity to a one-person show. One performer, one story, one mind in charge of the entire evening.…

5 months ago

To Kill a Mockingbird – Festival Theatre

All rise. Atticus Finch is back in court, and on this particular evening in Edinburgh it isn’t Richard Coyle behind…

5 months ago

Top Hat – Edinburgh Playhouse

Irving Berlin’s Top Hat taps into the Edinburgh Playhouse this week with more sparkle than a sequinned gin palace, and, in a…

6 months ago

Cauld Blast Orchestra – Traverse Theatre

Some reunions coast on memory, others roar into the present as if they had never left. Cauld Blast Orchestra’s return…

7 months ago

Edinburgh Days – St. Brides Community Centre

There is something stirring at the heart of Edinburgh Days, a new sung-through musical that plants its feet in 19th-century…

7 months ago

Trainspotting Live – Pleasance EICC

Stark, uncompromising, and more than a little filthy, Trainspotting Live at the EICC is an experience that assaults all the…

8 months ago

I’m Ready to Talk Now – Traverse Theatre

One audience member at a time, for 45 minutes, in a room dressed like a hospital ward. That is the…

8 months ago