986 stories by "Mark Fisher"
Oran Mor, GlasgowThey discovered Elvis, they discovered sex, they discovered material wealth. Now the baby boomers are discovering death. The results can be maudlin and introspective " but n…
Traverse, EdinburghThe wag who described Morna Pearson as the Dr Dre of Scottish theatre was probably exaggerating. The Elgin-born playwright is no gangsta rapper, though you can't deny the …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTowards the start of Shakespeare's comedy, the fairy queen Titania tells her lover Oberon how their quarrel has turned nature upside down. "The seasons alter…
Traverse, Edinburgh"I'm at home and I feel homesick," says the character of Kate Bane, explaining her unresolved anguish to the boyfriend who has come to meet her parents. Or rather, in Ella…
Platform, GlasgowImagine a string quartet, but with actors instead of musicians. In place of a score, a set of overlapping monologues. As they riff on similar themes, they could be from a fa…
Govanhill Baths, GlasgowEven a trip to the swimming baths is full of ritual. First comes the initiation ceremony of changing room, wire basket and wristband " just as it is here in Adrian Ho…
Citizens, GlasgowShe enters in socks, tracksuit bottoms and faded grey T-shirt. Her blood-red hair is a shade away from the glossy surfaces of her fitted kitchen. Her son has just been dropp…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghCanadian playwright Michel Tremblay's Les Belles SÅ“urs, translated here as The Guid Sisters, is one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, remarkable on many l…
His Majesty's, AberdeenYou can imagine a stage adaptation of Robin Jenkins's sublime 1955 novel turning out like Of Mice and Men. Set during the second world war on a remote Highland estate,…
Tron, GlasgowYou couldn't accuse Sylvia Dow of being over-hasty. After a lifetime in arts administration, she has waited until her 70s to make her playwriting debut. There is nothing antiqua…
Royal LyceumThe play by Arthur Miller that became Death of a Salesman was originally called The Inside of His Head, but the title could apply equally to Vanishing Point's nightmarish contrib…
Fringe veterans have various strategies for surviving Edinburgh " from stirring up debate to remembering your motivation " but all agree on the benefits of limiting beer intakeOf all the exp…
Pitlochry festival theatreSince director Richard Baron staged The 39 Steps at Perth Theatre in 1998, the adaptation has been on a journey as long and involved as that of Richard Hannay when …
Tron, GlasgowAs titles for riotous comedies go, this one had to be the grimmest. The stones in Sean Harkin's pockets are there to weigh him down as he drowns. His suicide, as playwright Mari…
Arches, GlasgowThe earliest hours of the morning are also the most solitary: a drunk staggering home; a security guard watching CCTV; a forlorn Facebook user hoping someone will message back…
Pitlochry festival theatreThe murder-mystery always lets you down. It's a genre that compels you to piece together the clues, then leaves you with a sense of emptiness the moment the detecti…
Tramway, GlasgowAlan Cumming plays every part in Shakespeare's tragedy set inside a mental asylum, writes Mark FisherIn his one-man Elsinore, Robert Lepage had to have a sword fight with him…
Dundee RepAt the hands of director Jemima Levick, Shakespeare's isle is not only full of noise but women, too. As seagulls scream over a very 21st-century set of washed-up bin bags, computer…
Pitlochry festival theatreSeymour the florist has a lot in common with Macbeth. Like Shakespeare's antihero, the misfit at the centre of Little Shop of Horrors gets his first break through h…
Citizens, GlasgowSince the rise of the black-box studio in the 1960s and 70s, the place for Beckett's shorter plays has generally been in small rooms before select audiences. It's fascinatin…
Theatremakers don't become game-changers overnight. And a rare revival of John McGrath's 1966 play Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun is a reminder of a playwright who would go on to shape…
Various venues, EdinburghThere is an extraordinary moment towards the start of Kindur, one of the highlights of this year's Imaginate children's theatre festival. We have been enjoying some …
Citizens, GlasgowThere's a sense of impermanence about Dominic Hill's austere King Lear. The tables and chairs are forever being overturned and whisked away, as if in response to Lear's unst…
This year's EIF offers plenty to look forward to, from a glow-in-the-dark race up Arthur's Seat to a Polish Macbeth and the Mariinsky Ballet. What will you be booking for?You've got to admir…
Citizens, GlasgowThe greatest challenge in staging Betrayal " written by Harold Pinter in response to his seven-year affair with Joan Bakewell " is to make it seem more than a study of narro…
