Wednesday, 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 08:18AMSunday, November 27, 2016
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingHigh-density gags featuring a host of fairytale favourites cover up the narrative cracks in Johnny McKnight’s subversive panto“Weans in the Wood is about s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghCora Bissett’s spirited revival is performed by a fine ensemble beneath a towering set but doesn’t go deeper than a lightweight observational comedyShe’s a woman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, October 31, 2016
In 1968, MP Enoch Powell prophesied doom over mass immigration. Now, nearly 50 years later, Ian McDiarmid is playing him in new drama What Shadows. How does it feel to voice his notorious sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Tron, GlasgowA small academic industry is building around the work of David Greig. Books are appearing with titles such as The Sense of Place and Identity in David Greig's Plays and the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Òran Mór, GlasgowAlan Bissett evokes the whimsy of The Wind in the Willows in his insightful eulogy to Pink Floyd’s wayward geniusChapter seven of The Wind in the Willows is called The P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, October 14, 2016
Profit, pollution, civil unrest and contact lenses: oil seeps its way into the lives of millions. It’s a big issue – so big that Grid Iron theatre’s new theatre work is set in a docksi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyThe long-running Scots cartoon strip transfers to the stage with gentle humour and couthie familiarity intact, but also some pirandellian uneaseHas there ever be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAeschylus’s tale of escape from forced marriage and the perils of exile is made brilliantly tense in David Greig’s thoroughly democratic productionWhen David Greig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Citizens theatre, GlasgowHarry Gibson’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel about urban alienation speaks as loudly, scabrously and irreverently as everThey used to call it “the Aids ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AMSunday, September 4, 2016
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingRapture’s flat production of Michael Frayn’s 2003 play has more the stagy air of Yes, Prime Minister than the the sharpness of House of CardsThey say Adolf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Using folk singing, found footage and a revolutionary interactive staging, Marichka Kudriavtseva and Mark Marczyk’s ‘guerrilla folk opera’ throws Edinburgh audiences into the heart of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Tron, GlasgowThe last instalment in the Leenane triology is given a touching and funny revival with some superb performancesAt first sight, the plays in Martin McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMMonday, June 20, 2016
Edinburgh Festival theatreRona Munro’s day-long reimagining of 15th-century royal Scotland shows a nation determined to do things on its own terms Related: The lost kings of Scotland There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:05AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Dundee RepBenedick and Beatrice offer a romance worth believing in Irene Macdougall’s intelligent, well paced productionKeep an eye on Robert Jack’s left hand. When the actor strides on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Various venues, EdinburghThis nine-day festival’s excellent theatre and dance pieces address young audiences with wit and provocationEvery festival should programme The Jury as its opening…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Dalcrue farm, PitcairngreenIn a field in Perthshire at dawn, this spine-tingling music-theatre piece told the stories of 306 traumatised young men who were executed for cowardiceThere’s mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowJeremy Herrin’s touring revival focuses on the stridency and the heavy tragedy of the 1985 Frank McGuinness play – at the expense of its subtletyRevived to mark the cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghScandalous affairs and royal tiffs abound in this excellently acted, Scots-tinted take on the brilliant but self-destructive French playwrightThe watery greys of Neil …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Tron, GlasgowOscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett make unlikely appearances as a Protestant radical revisits the doomed 1798 rebellion“Haven’t we always been on the stage in our own eyes?” a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Tron, GlasgowThe Hobbit author escaped Middle Earth to write a fairy tale about an amateur painter, portrayed by Richard Medrington in this mysterious solo pieceAt the start of his enchantin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowDirected by Dominic Hill, this four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climaxIt usually feels like a handica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMThursday, April 28, 2016
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThis claustrophobic three-hander can be electrifying but Tam Dean Burn’s erratic Captain upsets the balance of a delicately calibrated conflictThe first part of Au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMark Thomson’s psychologically rich production of the epic has mortals ferociously slugging it out while the gods recline in deckchairs The great thing about the Gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMThursday, April 14, 2016
From Alan Cumming performing a solo Macbeth, to shows in pubs, airports and cars, the National Theatre of Scotland has produced some of the UK’s most daring work. As they turn 10, we pick …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, April 1, 2016
Dundee RepTo defeat the Big Bad Wolf, Little Red must sets aside her lupine prejudices and befriend a sensitive wolf cub in this picture-perfect staging for the over fivesOnce we would tell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyAllan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott breeze through the kinds of routines that once graced the London PalladiumPlays about comedians always have a hurdle to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMMonday, February 29, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowA convicted paedophile meets his victim 15 years later in this richly ambiguous two-hander, with Paul Higgins and Camrie Palmer excellent as the tortured pairThis revival of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Tron, GlasgowVanishing Point’s exploration of how we relate to images of distress – as engaged observers or callous voyeurs – is compelling and daringYou’ll have had the same convers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Tron, GlasgowIt is a particularly sour pair of ugly sisters who primp and preen around their mistress's boudoir in this all-male staging of the Jean Genet play for the Glasgay festival. Dere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:50AMSunday, February 21, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWith a skeletal set and cast positioned in tableaux, director John Dove focuses on Arthur Miller’s compelling textWhen Ron Donachie takes the stage as Deputy Governo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM 
