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 04:32PMÒran 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 08:12AMProfit, 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 08:54AMAdam 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 12:46PMRoyal 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 10:33AMCitizens 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 10:50AMMacrobert 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 06:54AMUsing 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 02:12AMTron, 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 06:44AMEdinburgh 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 02:05AMDundee 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 12:22PMVarious 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 09:27AMDalcrue 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 09:45AMCitizens, 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 09:06AMRoyal 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 06:30AMTron, 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 11:01AMTron, 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 08:50AMCitizens, 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 08:10AMCitizens 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 08:46AMRoyal 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 11:43AMFrom 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 08:32AMDundee 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 06:35AMAdam 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 07:34AMCitizens, 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 10:51AMTron, 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 07:45AMTron, 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 04:50AMRoyal 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 07:54AMEdinburgh 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 09:32AMCitizens, 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 07:51AMPlatform, 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 09:06AMTron, 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…
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