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What's On? Mix Up Recommendations




Mix Up Theatre provides a few recommendations from students, families and teachers for things to see and do!



Seen anything good lately? Send us in a quick review and a rating for anything live, theatre, comedy, online or cinema based and we'll add it to our recommendations list.




Film - Cinema

★★★★★


Steel yourself for Chloé Zhao’s “shattering” Oscar-tipped drama about the tragedy that drove Shakespeare  to write his masterpiece. Starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.


Archie (Age 13) - ★★★★★

"Was a very sad film about what is believed to be the inspiration for Hamlet. In it shakespeare’s wife Agnes has a child, but he passes away while Shakespeare isn’t there. This inspires Shakespeare to write hamlet as a way to say the things he couldn’t. I really enjoyed this film, it was a tragic story and it had great performances from the actors. I was also impressed with how lots of scenes are filmed in one camera shot with all natural lighting."


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Film - Cinema

★★★★★



We’ve waited nine long years – but now Zootropolis is back and it’s funnier (and furrier) than ever.


Mix Up Junior (Age 6) - ★★★★★

"I loved it and the snake is the best new character. It's very funny!"


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Gallery

★★★★★


The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum - until 15th November



The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum is delighted to present Curtain Call: Costumes from Stage and Screen, a striking new exhibition that celebrates the creative power and global influence of costume designers who hail from or were inspired by Dundee.


Stewart - ★★★★★

"Fantastic exhibition highlighting costumes created by Dundee designers for stage and screen. It's wonderful to soak up all the details in these exquisite pieces, particular highlights include Ben Kingsley's Othello costume for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the recent Dundee Rep's production of Oor Wullie.

It's a small exhibition but it suitably feels like a backstage treat and it's great to see these pieces on display and given the platform to breathe and be fully appreciated by theatre and film fans like us!"


Film - Short

★★★★★


A lonely man finds himself in a strange place where everything is planned in advance for his arrival.


Stewart - ★★★★★

"A haunting, strange animated film with that wonderful track from Eluvium. It's super creepy and creates a mysterious world all of its own. With echoes of David Lynch it's inspired and one that I just want to explore again as we follow a man's journey to a strange hotel. Animation is fantastic as well. Perfection."


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Film - Cinema - Streaming (Available to Rent / Buy)

★★★★★



The first movie flew – but Wicked: For Good soars. This “intense, action-packed” movie is one of the year’s hottest sequels.


Nina (Age 13) - ★★★★★

"Wow I have no words it was amazing!! Wicked: For Good is based on the second act of the musical Wicked. The music is incredible and the movie features 2 new songs the musical doesn’t. Ariana Grande (Glinda) and Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba) both are amazing actresses. Cynthia has a very powerful voice and Ariana’s high notes are everything! It was such a heartwarming, dramatic and emotional conclusion of the story. It’s set 5 years after the first movie and it shows how far Glinda and Elphaba have come since the end of the first film. Glinda has a glamorous lifestyle and she has become Glinda the Good and Elphaba (now the Wicked Witch of the West) is hiding away and trying to save the animals and prove the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) is a fraud. Grab your tissues, prepare for insane singing talent and sit back relax and enjoy the film! (And maybe cry a little)” 1000000/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐"


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Film - Streaming - Sky Cinema

★★★★★



Teenage Sarah journeys through a maze to save her baby brother from the Goblin King.


Sam (Age 12) - ★★★★★

"When I first thought about a movie playing synchronised with a live band, I expected it to be an interesting experience but not an enjoyable one. I was wrong. Once the music started playing and the film got going, I found it to be extremely immersive. The volume of the soundtrack never overpowered the audio of the actual film and if it ever did subtitles would be there in case. Overall the film was very entertaining. Seeing it on the big screen was incredible. Even the conductor seemed to be enjoying it. Because the audience certainly was! There was a wide array of Labyrinth merchandise dotted across the auditorium. Someone was even wearing a David-Bowie-style wig, which gave me a good chuckle"


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Theatre

★★★★★


Newcastle Theatre Royal - until 28th February - Part of UK Tour



Olivia (Age 13) - ★★★★★

"Mama Mia was such an amazing experience I was blown away by the casts singing and dancing skills, I wasn't a huge fan of mama Mia before this but I definitely am now! I loved Tanya's character she's very comical but serious as well, she reminds me of Emily Gilmore. They preformed 3 songs at the end that we could sing and dance along to and they had confetti!

Tanya's scene with the boys was slightly innaproprate but the singing and dancing was amazing.

I was so impressed with the boys jumps and this one guy doing handstands in flippers for about 30 seconds!

We got invited to the press room where they had two guys playing and singing Greek (I think) songs and a photographer with a mama Mia backdrop!

This is an outstanding show that you can just tell a lot of thought and effort has been put into the making of it. 5 stars it's definitely a must see."



Film - Streaming (Sky)

★★★★★


A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.


Sam - ★★★★★

"Truly good horror movies are a rare instance today, but I am sure no one expected one of media’s now most iconic ones to be directed by a comedian. Jordan Peele’s Get Out is about a couple in which the girlfriend encourages her black boyfriend Chris to visit her parents. Chris is concerned about this because her family is white. Once they arrive, you immediately get deeply unsettled, due to the eminently good cinematography which continued to impress me throughout the movie. The whole thing is made even better by the disturbingly realistic performance of the actors, especially Daniel Kaluuya, who sold the film for me. Get Out is so immersive that when a jump scare takes place, it truly makes you jump! The film fits you into Chris’ shoes perfectly, so you are just as confused as he is. Overall Get Out is an incredibly effective horror movie, which genuinely scared me. It is a movie you think about long after you have watched it."


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Theatre

★★★★★


until 22nd February - Glasgow King's Theatre


Part of UK Tour...


Don’t miss this guaranteed comedy catastrophe from Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind 'The Play That Goes Wrong'.


Myles (Age 15 ) - ★★★★1/2

"I thought that the show was great, very funny! The cast was incredible and they all bounced off of each other extremely well. You never knew when a joke was going to come back around from earlier in a satisfying and complete way. I loved this show and so did my dad: he couldn’t stop laughing the whole way! It was definitely my type of comedy. I loved how they used A Christmas Carol as a base idea but expanded upon it. There was only one joke that was overused."


10. One Bum Cinema Club

Film - Festival

★★★★


Where?

Drumbrae Libary, Edinburgh – February 14 – 27, Workshop: 2pm Tues 17 Feb

Oxgangs Libary, Edinburgh – March 2 – March 13, Workshop: Tues 3rd 4pm



Step inside the world’s smallest cinema and experience the magic of animation like never before!


Stewart - ★★★★

"The One Bum Cinema Club is brilliant! I wish I can stay in it longer! But there was other people wanting in to see the films ha.

I managed to catch First Flight, which was a wonderfully colourful and wacky story of little animals taking their first flight. Superb fun and a great addition to the programme of shorts for the One Bum Cinema Club.

I'm going to try and catch more with my son at the one bum cinema club visits local libraries. I highly recommend you do the same! Let us know what you see!"



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What else is on?




Talking Sopranos

TV - Theatre

Saturday 21st February, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2:30pm / 7:30pm



Talking Sopranos is a hilarious 90-minute live show featuring two of The Soprano’s iconic cast members, Steve Schirripa (Bobby Bacala), and Emmy Award winner Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti).



Big Kid Circus: Jurassic

Circus - Theatre

until 22nd February, Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh



Big Kid Circus presents Jurassic.


2 Hours of incredible entertainment for all ages. For the first time in the UK, witness the 28ft wide Dinosaur souring through the circus, a spectacle that will leave both kids and adults in awe!


Waiting for Godot

Theatre

20th February - 14th March, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow



Matthew Kelly and George Costigan star in a new staging of Samuel Beckett’s classic play – in which absolutely nothing happens.



Lightning Ridge

Theatre - Family

Sunday 22nd February 2:00pm, Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse



A Catherine Wheels show created by Gill Robertson, Shona Reppe, Daniel Padden and Rob Evans. Adapted from the book Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice. 12 year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne and her two invisible friends Pobby and Dingan. One day, Pobby and Dingan disappear. At first Ashmol is happy that the imaginary friends are out of his life, but Kellyanne becomes sick. The longer Pobby and Dingan are lost, the sicker Kellyanne becomes. Finally, Ashmol decides that there is only one thing to do: he must find Pobby and Dingan. Lightning Ridge is a heart breaking and beautiful story about the possibility of dreams, about a community coming together, the preciousness of hope and how, sometimes, we have to believe in the impossible.





Mix Up Theatre is a youth theatre that runs drama classes for Ages 3-18 throughout Scotland (Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Linlithgow, South Queensferry).

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