Monday, 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 11:06AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Tron, GlasgowIn this exquisite solo piece, with parallels to Shakespeare’s play, the writer and performer David Leddy gets under the skin of an outsiderChris has an identity crisis. Played…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA crisp combination of stillness and urgency powers Caryl Churchill’s teasing speculations on identityCaryl Churchill’s two-hander zips along in an hour, so most e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, April 6, 2017
Traverse, Edinburgh Stef Smith’s dystopian sci-fi two-hander, staged during the Edinburgh international science festival, anatomises our relationships with technologyThe lines of Neil Warm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, March 30, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghStevie finds out about her husband's affair in Edward Albee's thrilling drama from a letter sent by their old friend Ross. What he wrote, she says, was "awful and absurd, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDominic Hill’s production of this sharply observed comedy is at its best when mocking the social embarrassments of polite societyNoël Coward’s silly, subversive 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Scottish writer James Robertson has translated selected scenes in this ravishingly lit and superbly designed production of Shakespeare’s playJohn Michie’s Leontes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Gary McNair has created a show using verbatim testimonies from hundreds of interviewees to reveal the prevalence of a hidden, misogynistic male languageGary McNair has accosted a stranger. H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, February 5, 2017
SSE Hydro, GlasgowFord Kiernan and Greg Hemphill return to the stage with an even more ambitious live show – and just as many laughsWhen does a sitcom get too big for its boots? It’s a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghFisk, a meditative evocation of mental breakdown onboard a paper boat, is a highlight at the festival of animation, puppetry and movementThere’s a turntable in the Trave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghLutton’s production of the classic 1967 novel is a metaphor for the underlying contradictions of colonialismIt feels like an unresolved chord. Everything is on edge.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, December 11, 2016
Traverse, EdinburghThe beguiling playfulness of this rollicking adaptation cleverly amplifies the high drama of Anna Sewell’s equestrian adventureThey should have called it Horse Play. Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghNeilson’s playful take on the much-loved novel is an eccentric fantasia full of clever theatrical tricksIt was in this theatre 12 years ago that Anthony Neilson pres…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, December 2, 2016
Tron, GlasgowAnything goes, especially Hans Christian Andersen’s original story, in Johnny McKnight’s hyperactive festive rompIf you’re looking to buy some red glitter in central Glasg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Festival Square theatre, Edinburgh Bandleader Louis Jordan’s songwriting skill shines through in this breezy jukebox show, which makes up for sparse plotting with abundant feelgood spiritH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM 
