Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Octagon, BoltonThe audience enjoy a Cliff singalong on the top deck as they soak up the feelgood hit of the summerSometimes the stars align and fate smiles on a production. When Elizabeth Ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, June 3, 2018
State cinema, Leith In an atmospheric derelict venue, the Golden Trailer Collective explore anti-terror detentions in a play that could commit more to its eccentricitiesA cuckoo festival wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Traverse, Edinburgh, and North Edinburgh Arts CentreBaba Yaga, a delirious take on Slavic folklore, and the masterful one-man show Stick By Me offer joyful explorations of rules and how to b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMFriday, May 11, 2018
He has blazed his way through theatre and opera. Now, the great director Calixto Bieito is reflecting on his fears in a highly personal concertThe scene is northern Spain, some time in the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, May 7, 2018
Corn Exchange, HaddingtonCharlie’s Angels meet the Andrews Sisters in this entertaining and melodic meditation on griefYes, it is aimed at the over-eights, but Eddie and the Slumber Sister…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghStewart Laing directs August Strindberg’s drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife’s marriageIf the men’s rights movement is looking for a spokesman,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Traverse, EdinburghA mother’s fear that her toddler has been abused sends her into a nightmarish state of anxiety in Frances Poet’s playWhen Iago causes Othello to doubt himself, it only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Citizens, GlasgowGeorge Costigan is magnificent as the patriarch of the fraught Tyrone family, imprisoned in a jail of their own making The Connecticut summer house of the Tyrone family in E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMMonday, February 19, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTony Cownie roughs up and relocates Hannah Cowley’s 18th-century play, adding vulgar jokes and rebellious energyImagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe West Bank’s nightly curfews, checkpoints and pipe bombs make for gallows humour in this defiant comedy that gives a voice to the voicelessYour average Mark T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Northern Stage, NewcastleLaura Lindow’s adaptation of the sci-fi classic is a thrilling parable of complacency that allows a brilliant cast to shineHG Wells wrote The War of the Worlds at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Citizens, GlasgowThe tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles becomes an unflinching study of the effects of male violenceOn the face of it, Bold Girls is not a violent play. In form, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ tale turns the audience into voyeurs looking in on the recollection of an intense affairThere’s a theme in Marguerite Duras’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Octagon, BoltonJessica Baglow captures the plain-speaking pragmatism of Charlotte Brontë’s heroine in a light and lucid adaptation directed by Elizabeth NewmanThe first thing that anyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
In a festive sofa advertising campaign, the actor claims the bard once exclaimed: ‘People usually are the happiest at home.’ One problem – the oft-cited line is pure bunkumWhat was Sha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghMorna Pearson’s hopeful social satire about a struggling family in troubled times takes an unexpected turn into a parallel universeImagine the dysfunctional world of Bur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, December 10, 2017
King’s, Edinburgh; King’s, Glasgow; Perth theatre; Macrobert, StirlingScottish audiences are flocking, as ever, to this year’s pantomimes because the stars are great, dedicated dames, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, December 3, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe heroine’s life isn’t at stake in this family-friendly production, but it’s a dizzying compendium that gets to the emotional heart of why we tell talesThese d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA great cast and plentiful carol-singing make this staging of the Dickens classic as rich as a plum pudding – and sometimes as sickly sweetWith its hardworking cast,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe Communards punctuate the soundtrack to James Ley’s funny new play celebrating the Edinburgh bookshop that was a lifeline for the gay communityWhat 84, Charing Cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Bridget Boland’s long-lost drama about a refugee centre was ahead of its time in the way it blurred the lines between actor and audience. Now, Wils Wilson’s revival makes its depiction o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Citizens, GlasgowFrances Poet and Dominic Hill turn the tragedy into a relentlessly intense two-hander starring Keith Fleming and Charlene BoydThe bed could have been designed by Tracey Emin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Since 2004, a boozy lunchtime institution has launched careers, staged 40 new plays a year and changed the landscape of Scottish theatreIt defies all the rules of theatre marketing. Scarcely…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Dundee Rep, DundeeThis modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s gore-fest, set in a warehouse-style restaurant, is dynamically realised – in spite of some shaky verse-speakingWe’re seated a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, June 23, 2017
It has staged shows in a barn in Perthshire, a forest in Mid Argyll and now on a Glasgow canal. This shape-shifting company puts place at the heart of its playsFor two or three centuries, na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghRona Morison is a smart, vivacious and quick-witted queen in Linda McLean’s poetic historical drama, directed by David GreigWe’re in the court of Mary, Queen of Sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, May 22, 2017
Tron, GlasgowMoral questions about our complicity in war are muddied in this Faustian tale of a musician selling his soul for a shot at successThings were going well for Jake Rae in 1998. Hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Station Hotel, PerthThe second part of Oliver Emanuel’s first world war trilogy is a confrontational patchwork that shatters the myth of Britain’s cheerful army of working womenOne day l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSandy Grierson brings humour and bitterness to Douglas Maxwell’s tale of a redemptive mission, directed by Matthew LentonThe eponymous figure at the centre of Dougla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, April 23, 2017
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingIts bewildering mix of projections, music and ariel work makes Mark Murphy’s show about a coma patient a technical marvel, but the story is ultimately prosai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM 
