1,020 stories by "Mark Fisher"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
