The Guardian 6 July 2022

If you must insist on a summer panto, then Greece is as good a destination as any. It also works for alliteration. And that is all the justification writer and director Andy McGregor needs for this deliriously daft lunchtime show for A Play, a Pie and a Pint in which a holiday escape leads to a run-in with royalty and a close shave with a bear.

The connection to the land of the classical greats goes no further than a couple of Doric columns on the cheap-and-cheerful cartoon set by Gemma Patchett and Jonny Scott. The Mediterranean setting also gives an excuse for Fraser Boyle’s lusty Dame to strip down to her micro bikini, the better to attract fellow holidaymakers (failing that, a man in the front row). [READ MORE]

By Mark Fisher

MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. He is also the editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (both Mark Fisher Ltd).