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A triumphant return for the festival saw punters immersed in grief, jazz-rock freakouts and feminist anger, writes David Pollock
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When Neil Simon’s first major hit, Barefoot in the Park, appeared on Broadway in 1963, its youthful, urbane wit and freshness was
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Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point has created an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s nebulous novel The Metamorphosis that reflects the times in which
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It feels as though all the stops have been pulled out for Perth Theatre’s new version of Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedy, its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46PMLu Kemp, artistic director at Perth Theatre, tells David Pollock about her next season for the Scottish theatre and why she has
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Following recent shows about the Tay Bridge disaster and famed Scottish comic strip character Oor Wullie, Dundee Rep’s 2019-20 season continues to
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On the Applecross peninsula in the West Highlands of Scotland, a young woman named Laura (Lucy Doyle) arrives at her family’s remote
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There are few works in the history of Scottish theatre that occupy a place as rarefied as Tony Roper’s 1987 community hall
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Now the Krankies have confirmed their retirement from the pantomime scene, producer Qdos Entertainment has refreshed the largest pantomime in Scotland. This
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This short seasonal piece for children aged three and over takes place within one of the smaller studio rooms in Glasgow’s Southside
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMWhile it’s essentially a traditional local panto that sticks firmly to the conventions of the genre, there are flourishes of real quality
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMMonday, December 16, 2019
Running alongside its all-singing, all-dancing and intensely enjoyable gender reversal panto for older audiences Cinderfella, Glasgow’s ever-dependable Tron Theatre is also staging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMScottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary year draws to a close with this seasonal spectacular, making itself at home in Edinburgh throughout December and
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Now firmly installed as master of ceremonies at Perth’s annual pantomime, writer, director and leading dame Barrie Hunter has settled on a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMThe final production of the year at Elizabeth Newman’s reinvented Pitlochry Festival Theatre is emblematic of the approach that has served the
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Renowned across the Central Belt of Scotland for his especially modern and fresh-thinking pantos, Johnny McKnight is a fixture at Glasgow’s Tron,
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After a few years gathering dust in a drawer, Tony Roper’s comedy-drama The Steamie finally hit the stage in 1987. More than
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Created in 1936, and a weekly fixture of Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post’s cartoon pages ever since, Oor Wullie is an iconic
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Originally commissioned by Scotland’s Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in 2011, playwright Robert Alan Evans’ adaptation of Barry Hines’ 1968 novel A Kestrel
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In a hospital birthing room, a woman named Hope has just given birth to a large egg. Joy, the woman in scrubs
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Between Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s traditional summer repertory season and large-scale Christmas show, artistic director Elizabeth Newman’s introduction of a mid-autumn play appears
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There’s great ambition in Jenni Fagan’s adaptation of her acclaimed 2012 novel, about a young woman growing up in the care system,
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Director Andy Arnold was first drawn to Ben Jonson’s 17th-century play by a review from the critic Kenneth Tynan, which noted the
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As Dundee Rep celebrates its 80th birthday and 20 years of its resident ensemble, artistic director Andrew Panton tells David Pollock about
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Science fiction and horror are incredibly difficult to do well on stage. David Greig’s new adaptation of Solaris, directed by Matthew Lutton,
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The final show of Elizabeth Newman’s impressive debut summer season as artistic director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre bears all the hallmarks of
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The 2019/20 season marks both the 80th anniversary of the Dundee Rep’s opening and the 20th anniversary of the founding of its
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Like sirens, four nurses emerge from the bathtubs on stage. As we learn about them in monologue and dialogue, we are introduced
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“Are you Scottish, min?” asks the self-proclaimed “local joker” before us on the stage, in a warm and friendly Highland Scots accent.
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John Hughes’ 1985 film The Breakfast Club is one of the great coming-of-age tales of our time, but it’s been more than
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In many ways, this one-woman play by Nicola Wren fulfils many of the stereotypes of low-budget, solo theatre at the Edinburgh Festival
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