Tuesday, 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 12:39PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
King's theatre, EdinburghYou'd like to think The Sash had passed its sell-by date. It would be nice if, as it approaches its 40th anniversary, Hector MacMillan's taut domestic drama about se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Beacon, Greenock For those of us who grew up watching Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, the idea of trading your old toys for someone else's carries a certain allure. After selected performances of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Arches, GlasgowThe Arches' Platform 18 award is a barometer of what the next generation of theatre-makers is thinking. Where last year's recipients reflected on the legacy of Margaret Thatch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMMonday, April 22, 2013
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe macaroons devoured by Nora Helmer in Ibsen's proto-feminist classic normally symbolise her infantilism. They are a childish indulgence, cute and frivolous, for a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Traverse, EdinburghFirst, we were outraged by the apparent crimes of Jimmy Savile. Then we felt betrayed: had the innocence of 1970s light entertainment been a sham? Behind the showbiz sheen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Brae, ShetlandThere's plenty to be said against the motor car, but none of that is the concern of Ignition. Wils Wilson's extraordinary show for the National Theatre of Scotland and Shetland…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, March 11, 2013
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThanks to a flurry of co-productions between theatres in Scotland, Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum is currently associated with two top-quality ensembles. While Mark Thomson'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Citizens, GlasgowWe're in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest territory – but instead of Jack Nicholson finding method in the madness, here we have Eddie, a hospital radio DJ, discovering the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMMonday, February 18, 2013
Tron, GlasgowYou couldn't fault this adaptation of Julia Donaldson's novel for being short of themes. In 90 minutes, it ticks off bereavement, child abuse, missing people, drug addiction, me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Beacon, GreenockHalf an hour along the Clyde from Glasgow, the Beacon is a handsome new arts centre with a 500-seat main auditorium and a 100-seat studio. The artistic director of the �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh There is much that is extraordinary about Shelagh Delaney's debut play: that it was written by an 18-year-old after watching something by Terence Rattigan and thinkin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Citizens, GlasgowThe class war isn't over yet. Just ask the House of Commons catering staff whom MP Christopher Chope referred to as "servants" last week. Let's hope they don't react li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Citizens, GlasgowAs pantos across the land ramp up the contrast, volume and colour, the Christmas show at the Citz is refreshingly austere. Against a backdrop of naked winter trees, this Sle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Dundee RepAt this time of year, even the more sober-minded shows play to the gallery with fart gags and slapstick. The distinguishing characteristic of Jemima Levick's production of The Snow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Tron, GlasgowWhen Charles Dickens conceived the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, it is unlikely that he had in mind a large woman in a spangly leotard, bejewelled shoulder pads and curly black…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Arches, GlasgowIt's not so much the spirit of Christmas birth as of Easter resurrection that possesses this Hans Christian Andersen adaptation by Catherine Wheels. It begins, delightfully, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PM 
