Wednesday, 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 along t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Scots …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 last …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Douglas …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 prosaicI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 eveni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Warmin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 192…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 worry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Travers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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. This …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 presen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Glasgow, do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]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 spiritHow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 who f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Ã’ran 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 Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 dockside war…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 ann…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 capital …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 Hit…
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