Sunday, 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 07:54AMTuesday, February 16, 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 09:32AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowA cast led by Chris Gascoyne and David Neilson deliver Samuel Beckett’s apocalyptic play with nihilistic forceCould it have been intentional that Chris Gascoyne’s Clov s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AMSunday, January 31, 2016
Platform, GlasgowJenna Watt’s striking and poignant interaction between colourful smoke and life-changing decisions is at once gorgeous and full of jeopardyTowards the start of this entert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, January 23, 2016
Tron, GlasgowYou could describe the plot of Knives in Hens easily enough. You could say that David Harrower's play was about a young woman driven to kill her adulterous ploughman husband wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAmanda Gaughan’s excellent revival highlights the loneliness of the characters gathered to tell tales in a rural pubThere’s something unsatisfying about a certain …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Traverse, EdinburghStephen Greenhorn and Rona Munro’s one-act companion pieces aim for a warming sense of Dickensian resolution, but are actually a bit of a downer It’s the law that ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Tron, GlasgowThis bijou romp combines a delightfully mismatched romance, lovable characters and sparkling designsNo doubt the role is still being played as it used to be in some panto or oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Citizens, GlasgowDespite strong design and spirited performances, this retelling can’t decide whether it’s a serious Christmas show or a panto with age-inappropriate jokesI enjoy King Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Macrobert Arts Centre, SterlingHans Christian Andersen probably wouldn’t recognise the choreography nabbed from Taylor Swift, but he’d approve of the uproarious female energy I don’t t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, November 30, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAndrew Panton’s musical production treats CS Lewis’s story with absolute seriousness while seamlessly leading you into the wintry world of NarniaDo you remember th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Citizens theatre, GlasgowPaul Higgins and Ricky Ross’s musical on a theme of absolution, reconciliation and redemption is uneven but carried by its rousing expression of communal enterpris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Spectrum Centre, InvernessThe Accidental, Ali Smith's much-lauded novel, is about the effect on a middle-class family of the mysterious Amber. Enigmatic, inconsistent and appearing out of no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Custom House, EdinburghThis sumptuous site-responsive tour touches on food as both source of pleasure and harbinger of mortalitySome say all theatre is about sex or death. It’s certainly t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Tron theatre, GlasgowPlaywright Megan Barker’s reworking of Ghosts shines a light into the murky corners of outwardly respectable lives – and it’s unsettling stuff Related: Hedda Gable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWith three wobbly-hearted shows in one slow-burning evening, ever-funny Kitson tells life stories with scruffy humanityOn the Lyceum stage not long ago, three actors l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAs Samuel Beckett’s pair of dusty gents, Brian Cox and Bill Paterson bounce off each other with gleeful animation in a full-blooded ensemble productionSomething fasc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Their paths have crossed throughout their acting careers, but Brian Cox and Bill Paterson will finally team up for the ultimate double act: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They discuss its ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMMonday, September 14, 2015
Dundee RepThis update of John McGrath’s epic play is the rousing theatrical equivalent of a Proclaimers gigTold as a Brechtian ceilidh with song, poetry, scenes and sketches, John McGrath�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThursday, September 3, 2015
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDirector Michael Emans’s production fails to ignite the passion of Arthur Miller’s postwar classicEvery so often a news story breaks that reminds you of All My Sons…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
From his sister’s brain tumour to his family’s cramped flat, the revered actor and director Robert Lepage has plundered his childhood to tell the story of Quebec’s often violent strugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMSunday, July 26, 2015
Glasgow Botanic GardensJennifer Dick’s streamlined production makes a persuasive case for Shakespeare’s tale of the flighty monarchYou wait 420 years for what might be the first professi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMThursday, July 9, 2015
Tron, GlasgowA May-to-December romance sets off ripples of disapproval in this raucously funny Belfast-set comedyActor-turned-playwright David Ireland has been carving out a niche as a kind …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis National Theatre of Scotland adaptation of Spark’s favourite among her novels treats it as a police procedural and ramps up the sense of alienation Related: Loo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Dundee RepBlack-and-white movie aesthetics and well-judged performances make for an excellent adaptationOne reason Great Expectations adapts so readily to the stage is the fact that so many …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
King’s, GlasgowDouglas Maxwell relocates Robert Cossa’s comedy about a voracious granny to 1970s Scotland with very funny results Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMMonday, June 1, 2015
Tron, GlasgowNicola McCartney’s play about Jane Avril is staged with a restless combination of back projections, dance routines and multiple languages Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMMonday, May 25, 2015
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SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMWe have tended to treat the Norwegian master's plays as solemn dramas, but have we been taking him too seriously?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThe mayor of Turku, 2011 capital of culture, has handed his medics 5,500 free tickets to dole out. Time for a dose of drama?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PM 
