1,020 stories by "Mark Fisher"
Citizens, GlasgowPhillip Breen brings a Pinteresque air of brooding menace to Sam Shepard's uncomfortably black comedy of sibling rivalryThe brightest thing on stage is Austin's sky-blue shi…
Perth theatreLurking behind Noël Coward's silly story of dead wives and seances is a more thoughtful play that we see too little of hereGhosts, as we all know, are pallid creatures. Not s…
Eden Court, InvernessOlivier Emanuel's wordless but emotionally eloquent script explores a teenage boy's turmoil following his mother's deathThe three framing arches of Jamie Harrison's set …
Pathhead Hall, KirkcaldyThe meeting of music, dance and drama in this uneven but politically charged Joe Corrie play is frequently exhilaratingTS Eliot called him "the greatest Scots poet si…
(Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Murder mystery meets mind games as Ian Rankin brings modern cop drama to the stageIt has been a while since the stage has had much truck with genre fiction. Not sin…
Perth theatre, GlasgowRachel O'Riordan's brawny production is full of intelligent, invigorating performancesWe are in a relentlessly masculine landscape. The towering, grey edifice of Kenny …
Dundee Rep, Dundee David Greig's philosophical play, channelling the spirit of Robert Lepage, is large in cast, epic in scope and challenging in intellectDavid Greig has already demonstrated…
Citizens, GlasgowDominic Hill's Dostoyevsky production is told with drive and authority by a vigorous ensembleDostoyevsky's great philosophical novel is like Shakespeare's Hamlet in reverse.…
St Peter's Hall, Daliburgh, South UistSinger Fiona J Mackenzie evokes a living tradition of Gaelic song with exquisite results " but this is more gig than theatreLast month in the Edinburgh …
Actor Pauline Knowles and playwright David Harrower recall how the play about lust, language and medieval peasant life that became a modern Scottish classicPauline Knowles, actorWhen the di…
Tron, GlasgowIt's 100 years hence, and things are looking grim on planet Earth. Unemployment has exceeded 90% and government robots are around every corner. Worse, sex has been outlawed. For…
Pitlochry festival theatreAccording to Sotheby's, paintings with strong tones of red " the colour of sex and desire " sell better than those without. Designer Adrian Rees seems to have got t…
Tramway, Glasgow In the year 2038, a researcher may hungrily pounce on this review as the last fragment of evidence about a show that took place in Glasgow in June 2013.But am I to be t…
Traverse, EdinburghAJ Taudevin's small-scale touring show takes the form of a 10-a-penny issue play. Produced in association with the Scottish Refugee Council, it's a single-set 75-minu…
Dundee RepButterfly or moth? Swan or duck? Angel or vampire? The teenagers at the chilling heart of John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel and its two film adaptations could go either way. They are a…
Dundee RepTom McGrath, the first editor of International Times, the founder of Glasgow's Third Eye Centre (now CCA) and a key supporter of several generations of Scottish playwrights, made a…
Citizens, GlasgowIf you didn't know better, you could think this evening was a single dose of the dazzlingly original Caryl Churchill rather than a double bill. When Seagulls begins, you're …
King's theatre, EdinburghYou'd like to think The Sash had passed its sell-by date. It would be nice if, as it approaches its 40th anniversary, Hector MacMillan's taut domestic drama about se…
Beacon, Greenock For those of us who grew up watching Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, the idea of trading your old toys for someone else's carries a certain allure. After selected performances of …
Arches, GlasgowThe Arches' Platform 18 award is a barometer of what the next generation of theatre-makers is thinking. Where last year's recipients reflected on the legacy of Margaret Thatch…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe macaroons devoured by Nora Helmer in Ibsen's proto-feminist classic normally symbolise her infantilism. They are a childish indulgence, cute and frivolous, for a w…
Traverse, EdinburghFirst, we were outraged by the apparent crimes of Jimmy Savile. Then we felt betrayed: had the innocence of 1970s light entertainment been a sham? Behind the showbiz sheen…
Brae, ShetlandThere's plenty to be said against the motor car, but none of that is the concern of Ignition. Wils Wilson's extraordinary show for the National Theatre of Scotland and Shetland…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThanks to a flurry of co-productions between theatres in Scotland, Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum is currently associated with two top-quality ensembles. While Mark Thomson'…
Citizens, GlasgowWe're in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest territory " but instead of Jack Nicholson finding method in the madness, here we have Eddie, a hospital radio DJ, discovering the in…
