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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 the Uk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 loo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AM[SHARE]Monday, 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's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 moun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 centenar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:30AM[SHARE]Friday, 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?" asks He…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Augu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Greek…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 06:35AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 conversation yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:50AM[SHARE]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 Governor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 so cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 entertai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 11:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 type…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 every th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:19AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Lear a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 think t…
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