1,020 stories by "Mark Fisher"
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…
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…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAndrew Panton's musical production treats CS Lewis's story with absolute seriousness while seamlessly leading you into the wintry world of NarniaDo you remember that c…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowPaul Higgins and Ricky Ross's musical on a theme of absolution, reconciliation and redemption is uneven but carried by its rousing expression of communal enterpriseT…
Spectrum Centre, InvernessThe Accidental, Ali Smith's much-lauded novel, is about the effect on a middle-class family of the mysterious Amber. Enigmatic, inconsistent and appearing out of no…
Custom House, EdinburghThis sumptuous site-responsive tour touches on food as both source of pleasure and harbinger of mortalitySome say all theatre is about sex or death. It's certainly the…
Tron theatre, GlasgowPlaywright Megan Barker's reworking of Ghosts shines a light into the murky corners of outwardly respectable lives " and it's unsettling stuff Related: Hedda Gabler revi…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWith three wobbly-hearted shows in one slow-burning evening, ever-funny Kitson tells life stories with scruffy humanityOn the Lyceum stage not long ago, three actors l…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAs Samuel Beckett's pair of dusty gents, Brian Cox and Bill Paterson bounce off each other with gleeful animation in a full-blooded ensemble productionSomething fascin…
Their paths have crossed throughout their acting careers, but Brian Cox and Bill Paterson will finally team up for the ultimate double act: Beckett's Waiting for Godot. They discuss its ever…
Dundee RepThis update of John McGrath's epic play is the rousing theatrical equivalent of a Proclaimers gigTold as a Brechtian ceilidh with song, poetry, scenes and sketches, John McGrath's …
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDirector Michael Emans's production fails to ignite the passion of Arthur Miller's postwar classicEvery so often a news story breaks that reminds you of All My Sons. Ty…
From his sister's brain tumour to his family's cramped flat, the revered actor and director Robert Lepage has plundered his childhood to tell the story of Quebec's often violent struggle for…
Glasgow Botanic GardensJennifer Dick's streamlined production makes a persuasive case for Shakespeare's tale of the flighty monarchYou wait 420 years for what might be the first professional…
Tron, GlasgowA May-to-December romance sets off ripples of disapproval in this raucously funny Belfast-set comedyActor-turned-playwright David Ireland has been carving out a niche as a kind …
