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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…