Thursday, May 4, 2017
Well-meaning but uneven comedy bursts at its seams with mismatched themesTime travel, Brit pop, Sleeping Beauty. Classical ballet, the ravages of alcoholism, serial poisoning. There’s plen…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:18AMFriday, February 17, 2017
A wonder-filled, child's-eye view of Shakespeare from director Max WebsterIn the end, it’s all about Mamillius. It’s he – young son of Leontes of Sicily – who launches director …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:48AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Terror of the brutal rawness of nature in Malthouse Theatre's masterful stage adaptationWe probably think we know the story. From Peter Weir’s cult 1975 film, or even from the origina…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:42AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
It’s not often you need a passport to get into a theatre show. But then the journey required to get to Scottish site-specific experts Grid Iron’s Crude does feel like something of a pilg…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 08:48PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Fleeing rape and forced marriage in their war-torn homeland, a boatload of women refugees washes up in Greece, where they beg asylum from the suspicious locals.read more
Linked From The Arts Desk at 09:08PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songsread more
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:32AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
Alix in Wundergarten ★★★★Think Alan Ayckbourn on acid: a commonplace (well, almost) set-up, exaggerated further and further beyond what we’d ever anticipate. In François Pandolfo…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:09AMSaturday, June 4, 2016
The journey begins amid the glassy modernity of Perth’s gleaming Concert Hall. From there, you’re bussed a few miles out into the Perthshire countryside to a blasted, burnt-out farmhouse…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:12AMThursday, April 28, 2016
And so, it’s farewell to Mark Thomson with his final production as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, after 13 years in the job (incoming artistic director David Grieg unve…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:37AMFriday, March 25, 2016
‘Thomas Aikenhead – who the fuck are you?’ So goes the refrain to the opening number of I Am Thomas, a boisterous co-production between London’s Told by an Idiot, and the National Th…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 04:45AMFriday, March 11, 2016
Seldom can the suggestion of a post-show discussion have seemed so… well, unappealing is probably the polite way of putting it.read more
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:58AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Court in 1997, Conor McPherson’s The Weir has become something of a modern classic, notching up dozens of productions worldwide and even inclusion i…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:37AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
The first surprise in the Traverse Theatre’s seasonal production comes on entering the theatre – being led backstage, then onto what’s normally the performing area, and finally to two …
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:08AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Christmas has kicked off early in the Scottish capital’s theatreland, with traditional panto Snow White over at the King’s Theatre, and the Lyceum’s high-class offering – as befits t…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:57AMThursday, September 24, 2015
It’s been a turbulent few months for Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre, with a substantial cut in funding from Creative Scotland last October, followed by the (unrelated) announcement that Mark…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 02:09AMMonday, August 31, 2015
It felt a bit like we were seeing things. At the fag-end of Edinburgh’s 2015 August of festival mayhem, with extreme exhaustion and input overload mixing to brain-addling effect in the hea…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:01AMMonday, August 17, 2015
Incoming director Fergus Linehan has assembled some of the most respected names in their fields for his first Edinburgh International Festival. For classical music, that means Anne-Sophie Mu…
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