Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Tron theatre, GlasgowA vulnerable James Young and a defiantly sexy Amy Conachan star in this outrageously funny comedy of mannersJake thinks he's in with a chance. After a volley of sexting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyThis theatrical behind-bars poem has a brutal vision and does, finally, dare you to careI bet Christine Lindsay's early-morning dreams are like Dare to Care. If,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Tron, Glasgow Chloe Moss's study of two women finding their feet after prison takes time to find its emotional forceThe last time we saw Elaine C Smith, she was sending up Rod Stewart, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghPerformances of a very high order bring Noël Coward's comedy about mismatched lovers to gutsy, excruciating lifeIt's the climactic scene, in which Noël Coward's mism…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Willy Russell's boisterous show has an authentic working-class voice, socialist principles and sweetly melodic songsIf you ask a class of drama students why they chose their subject, a major…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMSunday, February 9, 2014
Citizens, GlasgowStrindberg's play is reduced somewhat to the story of a wealthy woman's psychological breakdown• Louise Brealey: from Sherlock to StrindbergIt's the morning after the nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Oran Mor, GlasgowLive Aid is at the centre of this clever meditation on the 1980s' gains and lossesThe conversation about Live Aid usually focuses on the unprecedented gathering of the world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Burgh Hall, CoveScotland is atomised, uneasy and restless for change in Kieran Hurley's folky musical melange – a state-of-the-nation ceilidh"I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA predictable but effective production of Eugene O'Neill's posthumous classic summons an awful mesmeric energyIt begins with a burst of summer sunlight spilling across…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMSunday, January 5, 2014
King's theatre, EdinburghAllan Stewart and Andy Gray are among the stars that produce panto greatness in this faithful JM Barrie adaptationFaithful interpretations of JM Barrie are not what …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
This brilliant adaptation of James Hogg's seminal 1824 novel is a beguiling investigation of the real and the imagined• Read about the other No 10 pick: Wet House• Read more from the Bes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMThursday, December 12, 2013
His Majesty's/Lemon Tree, AberdeenThere's life and bonhomie in the performances – particularly a big-lunged Elaine C Smith as the Fairy Godmother – but this Cinderella is too thinly trea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
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 08:21AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingA joyous panto in which women call the shots and give Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines a no-nonsense makeoverRobin Thicke faced global controversy over the ostensi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Citizens, GlasgowPhillip Breen brings a Pinteresque air of brooding menace to Sam Shepard's uncomfortably black comedy of sibling rivalryThe brightest thing on stage is Austin's sky-blue shi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Perth theatreLurking behind Noël Coward's silly story of dead wives and seances is a more thoughtful play that we see too little of hereGhosts, as we all know, are pallid creatures. Not so …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Eden Court, InvernessOlivier Emanuel's wordless but emotionally eloquent script explores a teenage boy's turmoil following his mother's deathThe three framing arches of Jamie Harrison's set …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Pathhead Hall, KirkcaldyThe meeting of music, dance and drama in this uneven but politically charged Joe Corrie play is frequently exhilaratingTS Eliot called him "the greatest Scots poet si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMSunday, September 29, 2013
(Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Murder mystery meets mind games as Ian Rankin brings modern cop drama to the stageIt has been a while since the stage has had much truck with genre fiction. Not sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Perth theatre, GlasgowRachel O'Riordan's brawny production is full of intelligent, invigorating performancesWe are in a relentlessly masculine landscape. The towering, grey edifice of Kenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Dundee Rep, Dundee David Greig's philosophical play, channelling the spirit of Robert Lepage, is large in cast, epic in scope and challenging in intellectDavid Greig has already demonstrated…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMSunday, September 8, 2013
Citizens, GlasgowDominic Hill's Dostoyevsky production is told with drive and authority by a vigorous ensembleDostoyevsky's great philosophical novel is like Shakespeare's Hamlet in reverse.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMFriday, September 6, 2013
St Peter's Hall, Daliburgh, South UistSinger Fiona J Mackenzie evokes a living tradition of Gaelic song with exquisite results – but this is more gig than theatreLast month in the Edinburg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Actor Pauline Knowles and playwright David Harrower recall how the play about lust, language and medieval peasant life that became a modern Scottish classicPauline Knowles, actorWhen the di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMThursday, July 11, 2013
Tron, GlasgowIt's 100 years hence, and things are looking grim on planet Earth. Unemployment has exceeded 90% and government robots are around every corner. Worse, sex has been outlawed. For…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57PMMonday, July 1, 2013
Pitlochry festival theatreAccording to Sotheby's, paintings with strong tones of red – the colour of sex and desire – sell better than those without. Designer Adrian Rees seems to have g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Tramway, Glasgow In the year 2038, a researcher may hungrily pounce on this review as the last fragment of evidence about a show that took place in Glasgow in June 2013.But am I to be t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Traverse, EdinburghAJ Taudevin's small-scale touring show takes the form of a 10-a-penny issue play. Produced in association with the Scottish Refugee Council, it's a single-set 75-minu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMSunday, June 9, 2013
Dundee RepButterfly or moth? Swan or duck? Angel or vampire? The teenagers at the chilling heart of John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel and its two film adaptations could go either way. They are a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Dundee RepTom McGrath, the first editor of International Times, the founder of Glasgow's Third Eye Centre (now CCA) and a key supporter of several generations of Scottish playwrights, made a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, May 27, 2013
Citizens, GlasgowIf you didn't know better, you could think this evening was a single dose of the dazzlingly original Caryl Churchill rather than a double bill. When Seagulls begins, you're …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM 
