1,020 stories by "Mark Fisher"
Tron, GlasgowThis well-acted story of a man caring for his ageing father shows men on 'two sides of the same rain'There is only a short distance between Dr Louis Bennett and his elderly fath…
Pitlochry Festival theatreThis account of Scotland's 90s aspirational generation emerges today as a sober family dramaThe hair salon co-owned by Barbs Marshall in Liz Lochhead's midlife-cris…
Tramway, GlasgowCora Bissett's tribute to Martyn Bennett captures the open-ended excitement of his music, saving the narrative from banality It begins in darkness. Through brief bursts of li…
Dundee RepA funny and unsettling vision of mental ill health, with a superb central performance from Meg FraserI recently spent a week in a hotel in Eastbourne. At the end of my stay, I felt…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMeteorology has never been so compelling as in David Haig's real-life drama about the weatherman making predictions about the second world war Normandy invasionWe're w…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowMartin Hutson plays 17th-century satirist John Wilmot in Dominic Hill's refreshing, stripped-back productionWhen Jacob Huysmans painted John Wilmot, second Earl of R…
Howden Park centre, LivingstonChekhov's characters encounter the Beatles, pop art and mini-skirts in rural ScotlandAnton Chekhov's plays are populated with characters burdened by a sense of …
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghAn invigorating collaboration with the NTS sees writers giving passionate voice to artworks of Scottish establishment figuresRobert Burns says yo…
Arches, GlasgowTheatre company Enormous Yes present a serious study of transgression and redemption centred on a Scottish islandInchkeith is an island in the Firth of Forth, a short distance…
Dundee Rep theatreStuart Paterson's free-form poem of a play about an ailing woman reflecting on her life is more evocation than drama, and it deftly avoids the maudlinImagine a bedbound Pee…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowSandy Grierson's performance is the tribute of a true devotee in this marvellous musical, as embraceable as the man himself Ivor Cutler: 'He didn't live by the same …
Tron theatre, GlasgowA vulnerable James Young and a defiantly sexy Amy Conachan star in this outrageously funny comedy of mannersJake thinks he's in with a chance. After a volley of sexting …
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyThis theatrical behind-bars poem has a brutal vision and does, finally, dare you to careI bet Christine Lindsay's early-morning dreams are like Dare to Care. If,…
Tron, Glasgow Chloe Moss's study of two women finding their feet after prison takes time to find its emotional forceThe last time we saw Elaine C Smith, she was sending up Rod Stewart, …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghPerformances of a very high order bring Noël Coward's comedy about mismatched lovers to gutsy, excruciating lifeIt's the climactic scene, in which Noël Coward's …
Willy Russell's boisterous show has an authentic working-class voice, socialist principles and sweetly melodic songsIf you ask a class of drama students why they chose their subject, a major…
Citizens, GlasgowStrindberg's play is reduced somewhat to the story of a wealthy woman's psychological breakdown' Louise Brealey: from Sherlock to StrindbergIt's the morning after the night …
Oran Mor, GlasgowLive Aid is at the centre of this clever meditation on the 1980s' gains and lossesThe conversation about Live Aid usually focuses on the unprecedented gathering of the world…
Burgh Hall, CoveScotland is atomised, uneasy and restless for change in Kieran Hurley's folky musical melange " a state-of-the-nation ceilidh"I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusion…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA predictable but effective production of Eugene O'Neill's posthumous classic summons an awful mesmeric energyIt begins with a burst of summer sunlight spilling across…
King's theatre, EdinburghAllan Stewart and Andy Gray are among the stars that produce panto greatness in this faithful JM Barrie adaptationFaithful interpretations of JM Barrie are not what …
This brilliant adaptation of James Hogg's seminal 1824 novel is a beguiling investigation of the real and the imagined' Read about the other No 10 pick: Wet House' Read more from the Best th…
His Majesty's/Lemon Tree, AberdeenThere's life and bonhomie in the performances " particularly a big-lunged Elaine C Smith as the Fairy Godmother " but this Cinderella is too thinly treatedN…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA great cast and plentiful carol-singing make this staging of the Dickens classic as rich as a plum pudding " and sometimes as sickly sweetWith its hardworking cast, o…
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingA joyous panto in which women call the shots and give Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines a no-nonsense makeoverRobin Thicke faced global controversy over the ostensi…
