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Sunshine on Leith – let’s have a roaring singalong to finish the night!
This production badly needs a knowing nod to the audience and a contemporary riff, suggests ANGUS REID
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Sunshine on Leith
Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Capital Theatres
SUNSHINE ON LEITH is 15 years old and still the writer, Stephan Greenhorn, sits in on rehearsals and changes the script. Why? That doesn’t happen with The Sound Of Music or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
The reason seems to be that the whole idea of mashing up Proclaimers songs with scenes from an Edinburgh version of Eastenders is still a work in progress.
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