986 stories by "Mark Fisher"
Tron, GlasgowThere used to be an argument that a play couldn't be called feminist " even one with an all-female cast " if its characters' lives were defined by men. Gary Owen's three-hander …
Dundee RepWhen Anna Karenina takes up with her lover Vronsky, someone says she has "gained a shadow". She is not the only one. The characters in Jemima Levick's production are forever being …
Citizens, GlasgowAfter his recent arrest, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was described as a man who had "a difficulty in controlling his impulses". Whatever the outcome of this particular court case…
An independent study has confirmed the economic benefits of Edinburgh's festivals but, most importantly, it quanitifies the value of the experienceOn the surface, it looks like another of th…
Tron, GlasgowTommy McMillan is "as thick as shite, an ugly wee bastard and as common as muck". He is also 28 years unemployed, which makes him an ideal candidate for a job with the departmen…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe battle appears to be won. Some kind of peace is taking hold. But the war has thrown up unforeseen problems. The word goes out: "Tell the men we'll be in Scotland a…
Tron, GlasgowIn his hits Knives in Hens and Blackbird, David Harrower stripped away the extraneous details to leave characters who could be from anywhere. His latest play isn't like that. Al…
Various venues, EdinburghYou can't fault the Imaginate children's theatre festival for variety. On Monday alone, you could see tutus for two-year-olds, postmodern Irish storytelling for the …
Venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh played politics with pieces on the AV referendum and the country's parliamentary electionsFor anyone interested in theatre and politics " and the relationship…
Traverse, EdinburghJulie tells her husband why her willow-pattern teacup meant so much to her. He sees only broken crockery. Online, Lin Han pours out her heart to a business contact. He thi…
Brunton, MusselburghWhen Des Dillon's comedy premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum, it had such brash popular appeal that I predicted it would be fewer than five years before we saw it again…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghOn its debut three years ago, Liz Lochhead's reworking of Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes came across as cheeky, witty and linguistically playful. Theatre Babel's stagin…
How director Pol Heyvaert was forced to rethink his ideas about disability. By Mark FisherIt's early 2008, and the National Theatre of Scotland has asked Belgian theatre director Pol Heyvaer…
King's, EdinburghWhen Tom McGrath died two years ago, he was commemorated for many things: editor of International Times, counter-culture poet, founder of two Glasgow theatres and musical di…
This year's far eastern programme harks back to cultural events from the past, encouraging audiences to question the very idea of exoticism and othernessSince he took over in 2007, artistic …
Traverse, EdinburghWhat do you have left when you strip away your home, your personal possessions and your loved ones? For some, it might be a sense of selfhood, spirituality or oneness with…
Should it be run by writers? Take over the King's? With director Dominic Hill heading for Glasgow, now is the time for the Traverse to get experimental once againThe rumours were right. Domi…
Brunton, MusselburghOne man produces semen that smells like a dead seagull's armpit. On the other side of the valley, the boils on his brother's chest seep fluid that tastes like nectar. As …
Cumbernauld, N LanarkshireWe're in the territory of Dennis Kelly's Orphans, a chic middle-class home, kitted out with hi-fi and Wi-Fi, with a sense that behind the venetian blinds is a lawle…
Traverse, EdinburghRobert Softley is telling the true story of a girl whose parents put her through surgery rather than let her face the onset of an adulthood which, they felt, would only ma…
Theatre Royal, GlasgowIt started this time last year with 170 Glasgow boys and young men getting involved in dance workshops. It ended last week with a mixed cast of two dozen amateur and pr…
Tron, GlasgowLook on Amazon and you'll find a poster for sale for the film version of Staircase. It features Rex Harrison and Richard Burton dancing hand in hand, cocking their legs behind, …
Citizens, Glasgow"Peroxide " that's all it is," says a long-suffering hairdresser working for Marilyn Monroe as she takes up residence in the Beverly Hills Hotel while shooting Let's Make Lo…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghCanadian playwright Linda Griffiths doesn't so much adapt George Gissing's The Odd Women as explode it. She takes the genteel 1890s setting of this novel about a phila…
Carnegie Hall, DunfermlineAs the mighty Black Watch nears the end of its latest tour of duty, it is good to be able to revisit the play that made Gregory Burke's name 10 years ago. This…
