Sunday, May 25, 2014
Dundee RepA funny and unsettling vision of mental ill health, with a superb central performance from Meg FraserI recently spent a week in a hotel in Eastbourne. At the end of my stay, I felt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMFriday, May 16, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMeteorology has never been so compelling as in David Haig's real-life drama about the weatherman making predictions about the second world war Normandy invasionWe're w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Citizens theatre, GlasgowMartin Hutson plays 17th-century satirist John Wilmot in Dominic Hill's refreshing, stripped-back productionWhen Jacob Huysmans painted John Wilmot, second Earl of R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Howden Park centre, LivingstonChekhov's characters encounter the Beatles, pop art and mini-skirts in rural ScotlandAnton Chekhov's plays are populated with characters burdened by a sense of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghAn invigorating collaboration with the NTS sees writers giving passionate voice to artworks of Scottish establishment figuresRobert Burns says yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Arches, GlasgowTheatre company Enormous Yes present a serious study of transgression and redemption centred on a Scottish islandInchkeith is an island in the Firth of Forth, a short distance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Dundee Rep theatreStuart Paterson's free-form poem of a play about an ailing woman reflecting on her life is more evocation than drama, and it deftly avoids the maudlinImagine a bedbound Pee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Citizens theatre, GlasgowSandy Grierson's performance is the tribute of a true devotee in this marvellous musical, as embraceable as the man himself Ivor Cutler: 'He didn't live by the same …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Tron theatre, GlasgowA vulnerable James Young and a defiantly sexy Amy Conachan star in this outrageously funny comedy of mannersJake thinks he's in with a chance. After a volley of sexting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Adam Smith theatre, KirkcaldyThis theatrical behind-bars poem has a brutal vision and does, finally, dare you to careI bet Christine Lindsay's early-morning dreams are like Dare to Care. If,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Tron, Glasgow Chloe Moss's study of two women finding their feet after prison takes time to find its emotional forceThe last time we saw Elaine C Smith, she was sending up Rod Stewart, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghPerformances of a very high order bring Noël Coward's comedy about mismatched lovers to gutsy, excruciating lifeIt's the climactic scene, in which Noël Coward's mism…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Willy Russell's boisterous show has an authentic working-class voice, socialist principles and sweetly melodic songsIf you ask a class of drama students why they chose their subject, a major…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMSunday, February 9, 2014
Citizens, GlasgowStrindberg's play is reduced somewhat to the story of a wealthy woman's psychological breakdown• Louise Brealey: from Sherlock to StrindbergIt's the morning after the nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Oran Mor, GlasgowLive Aid is at the centre of this clever meditation on the 1980s' gains and lossesThe conversation about Live Aid usually focuses on the unprecedented gathering of the world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Burgh Hall, CoveScotland is atomised, uneasy and restless for change in Kieran Hurley's folky musical melange – a state-of-the-nation ceilidh"I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA predictable but effective production of Eugene O'Neill's posthumous classic summons an awful mesmeric energyIt begins with a burst of summer sunlight spilling across…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMSunday, January 5, 2014
King's theatre, EdinburghAllan Stewart and Andy Gray are among the stars that produce panto greatness in this faithful JM Barrie adaptationFaithful interpretations of JM Barrie are not what …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
This brilliant adaptation of James Hogg's seminal 1824 novel is a beguiling investigation of the real and the imagined• Read about the other No 10 pick: Wet House• Read more from the Bes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMThursday, December 12, 2013
His Majesty's/Lemon Tree, AberdeenThere's life and bonhomie in the performances – particularly a big-lunged Elaine C Smith as the Fairy Godmother – but this Cinderella is too thinly trea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA great cast and plentiful carol-singing make this staging of the Dickens classic as rich as a plum pudding – and sometimes as sickly sweetWith its hardworking cast,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingA joyous panto in which women call the shots and give Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines a no-nonsense makeoverRobin Thicke faced global controversy over the ostensi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMMonday, November 4, 2013
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 so …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PMMonday, October 7, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMSunday, September 29, 2013
(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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMSunday, September 8, 2013
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.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMFriday, September 6, 2013
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 Edinburg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PM 
