Thursday, May 26, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowJeremy Herrin’s touring revival focuses on the stridency and the heavy tragedy of the 1985 Frank McGuinness play – at the expense of its subtletyRevived to mark the cent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghScandalous affairs and royal tiffs abound in this excellently acted, Scots-tinted take on the brilliant but self-destructive French playwrightThe watery greys of Neil …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Tron, GlasgowOscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett make unlikely appearances as a Protestant radical revisits the doomed 1798 rebellion“Haven’t we always been on the stage in our own eyes?” a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
Tron, GlasgowThe Hobbit author escaped Middle Earth to write a fairy tale about an amateur painter, portrayed by Richard Medrington in this mysterious solo pieceAt the start of his enchantin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowDirected by Dominic Hill, this four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climaxIt usually feels like a handica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMThursday, April 28, 2016
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThis claustrophobic three-hander can be electrifying but Tam Dean Burn’s erratic Captain upsets the balance of a delicately calibrated conflictThe first part of Au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMark Thomson’s psychologically rich production of the epic has mortals ferociously slugging it out while the gods recline in deckchairs The great thing about the Gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMThursday, April 14, 2016
From Alan Cumming performing a solo Macbeth, to shows in pubs, airports and cars, the National Theatre of Scotland has produced some of the UK’s most daring work. As they turn 10, we pick …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, April 1, 2016
Dundee RepTo defeat the Big Bad Wolf, Little Red must sets aside her lupine prejudices and befriend a sensitive wolf cub in this picture-perfect staging for the over fivesOnce we would tell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyAllan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott breeze through the kinds of routines that once graced the London PalladiumPlays about comedians always have a hurdle to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMMonday, February 29, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowA convicted paedophile meets his victim 15 years later in this richly ambiguous two-hander, with Paul Higgins and Camrie Palmer excellent as the tortured pairThis revival of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Tron, GlasgowVanishing Point’s exploration of how we relate to images of distress – as engaged observers or callous voyeurs – is compelling and daringYou’ll have had the same convers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Tron, GlasgowIt is a particularly sour pair of ugly sisters who primp and preen around their mistress's boudoir in this all-male staging of the Jean Genet play for the Glasgay festival. Dere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:50AMSunday, February 21, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWith a skeletal set and cast positioned in tableaux, director John Dove focuses on Arthur Miller’s compelling textWhen Ron Donachie takes the stage as Deputy Governo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Edinburgh Festival theatreRona Munro’s day-long reimagining of 15th-century royal Scotland shows a nation determined to do things on its own terms Related: The lost kings of Scotland There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Citizens, GlasgowA cast led by Chris Gascoyne and David Neilson deliver Samuel Beckett’s apocalyptic play with nihilistic forceCould it have been intentional that Chris Gascoyne’s Clov s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AMSunday, January 31, 2016
Platform, GlasgowJenna Watt’s striking and poignant interaction between colourful smoke and life-changing decisions is at once gorgeous and full of jeopardyTowards the start of this entert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, January 23, 2016
Tron, GlasgowYou could describe the plot of Knives in Hens easily enough. You could say that David Harrower's play was about a young woman driven to kill her adulterous ploughman husband wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAmanda Gaughan’s excellent revival highlights the loneliness of the characters gathered to tell tales in a rural pubThere’s something unsatisfying about a certain …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Traverse, EdinburghStephen Greenhorn and Rona Munro’s one-act companion pieces aim for a warming sense of Dickensian resolution, but are actually a bit of a downer It’s the law that ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Tron, GlasgowThis bijou romp combines a delightfully mismatched romance, lovable characters and sparkling designsNo doubt the role is still being played as it used to be in some panto or oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Citizens, GlasgowDespite strong design and spirited performances, this retelling can’t decide whether it’s a serious Christmas show or a panto with age-inappropriate jokesI enjoy King Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Macrobert Arts Centre, SterlingHans Christian Andersen probably wouldn’t recognise the choreography nabbed from Taylor Swift, but he’d approve of the uproarious female energy I don’t t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, November 30, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAndrew Panton’s musical production treats CS Lewis’s story with absolute seriousness while seamlessly leading you into the wintry world of NarniaDo you remember th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Citizens theatre, GlasgowPaul Higgins and Ricky Ross’s musical on a theme of absolution, reconciliation and redemption is uneven but carried by its rousing expression of communal enterpris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Spectrum Centre, InvernessThe Accidental, Ali Smith's much-lauded novel, is about the effect on a middle-class family of the mysterious Amber. Enigmatic, inconsistent and appearing out of no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Custom House, EdinburghThis sumptuous site-responsive tour touches on food as both source of pleasure and harbinger of mortalitySome say all theatre is about sex or death. It’s certainly t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Tron theatre, GlasgowPlaywright Megan Barker’s reworking of Ghosts shines a light into the murky corners of outwardly respectable lives – and it’s unsettling stuff Related: Hedda Gable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghWith three wobbly-hearted shows in one slow-burning evening, ever-funny Kitson tells life stories with scruffy humanityOn the Lyceum stage not long ago, three actors l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAs Samuel Beckett’s pair of dusty gents, Brian Cox and Bill Paterson bounce off each other with gleeful animation in a full-blooded ensemble productionSomething fasc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM 
