1,020 stories by "Mark Fisher"
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…
Tron, GlasgowIt will be remembered as the show with the masturbating fox sitting at the head of a bed with a masturbating stag. Yet this scene isn't some troubling piece of psychodrama from …
Perth TheatreArthur Miller's great mid-20th century dramas rarely let you down " but there are times when they seem more pertinent. When Miller directed Death of a Salesman in China, for exa…
Tron, GlasgowA small academic industry is building around the work of David Greig. Books are appearing with titles such as The Sense of Place and Identity in David Greig's Plays and the…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWhen John Dove staged Death of a Salesman for the Royal Lyceum in 2004, it was the start of a five-play Arthur Miller odyssey that reaches its triumphant, soul-shaking…
King's, GlasgowIt's rare to get a standing ovation at the end of a show these days " and it's almost unheard of for one to be given for an actor who's not even present. But such was the leve…
Citizens, GlasgowActor Alan McHugh has been developing a sideline as the writer of a strand of psychologically disturbing Christmas shows at Glasgow's Citz. Where last year's Cinderella was …
King's, EdinburghTo see what's good about this show, consider the scene where the baddie recruits four soldiers, gives each a stick and puts them through their military paces. The more incom…
Traverse, EdinburghIf there's a rule to be broken about family-centred theatre, playwright Chris Hannan breaks it. His brilliant version of the Alexandre Dumas stories is rude, anarchic, wit…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTheatregoers in Scotland used to have a simple choice at this time of year. Either they went to a traditional pantomime or to one of Stuart Paterson's Christmas shows:…
Like it or not, reviewers are a living part of what's happening on stage. And when the lines blur, the results can be surprisingMany theatre professionals like to keep their distance from cr…
Traverse, EdinburghIt must have been tempting to go down The Inbetweeners route. However outrageous the E4 teen comedy gets, there is little in its portrayal of adolescent angst that Frank W…
