Wednesday, August 14, 2019
In many ways, this one-woman play by Nicola Wren fulfils many of the stereotypes of low-budget, solo theatre at the Edinburgh Festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Amusingly pitched as “a disaster movie about falling in love”, this new show from writer and director Piers Black ties two separate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMThursday, August 8, 2019
With appropriate safety warnings dispensed outside, the audience are ushered into a corner of the stage. The theatre is darkened and a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
The Edinburgh Fringe has historically been successful for Stef Smith, who won a host of awards for Roadkill in 2010. This year
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In the 1960s, a scientist named Margaret Lovatt attempts on behalf of NASA to teach a dolphin called Peter to speak, in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMSunday, August 4, 2019
“Ah’m nae angel,” sneers Andy Clark’s Tartuffe, one of theatre’s great con artists, as he attempts to downplay his own manipulative awfulness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMIt’s sad to note that Arthur Miller’s 1953 conflation of the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy hearings of the playwright’s own
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMFriday, July 19, 2019
Kieran Hurley tells David Pollock how class consciousness and Glasgow’s Arches theatre helped shape his award-winning writing about human relations, masculinity and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2019
While other shows in Elizabeth Newman’s inaugural repertory season have emphasised nostalgic musical theatre and light comedy, Newman’s only entirely self-directed piece
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMFriday, June 28, 2019
“Music is about the only clean thing left in this awful world,” is the delicately-freighted message of this revival of Alan Plater’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMIn a white-walled luxury apartment, two well-to-do couples engage in a séance for a bit of diverting fun. Their invited host for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMThursday, June 13, 2019
The artistic director of the Glasgow performing arts festival tells David Pollock about presenting the best of Scottish artists, cutting her teeth
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As well as having its own building in the heart of the city, the Dundee Rep Ensemble has also created a strong
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMMonday, June 3, 2019
The distinctive nature of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s intensive, summer-only repertory system means that this is the first taste of Elizabeth Newman’s debut
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Elizabeth Newman has been brought in to connect rural Pitlochry Festival Theatre to the rest of Scotland and the globe. David Pollock
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Finegan Kruckemeyer’s children’s fable tells the story of three triplet sisters who are reluctantly abandoned by their father in the forest and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Low Pay? Don’t Pay! is a 2010 translation of Dario Fo’s post-banking crisis update of his 1974 Marxist satire Can’t Pay? Won’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
In the hermetically sealed environment of a Los Angeles beach house, an experiment unfolds from 1981 until more or less the present
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Although broadly a work of fiction, Morna Young’s play about the fishing communities of the North-East of Scotland contains a rich documentary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:25PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Maintaining the National Theatre of Scotland’s ethos as a ‘theatre without walls’ is a complex challenge but, for its technical director, it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMMonday, April 8, 2019
A fusion of old and new is on the menu at this first celebratory presentation of Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary, which is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Wide-eyed and excited, a young actor from Edinburgh named Marie arrives in London with dreams of making her name and career in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMThursday, March 21, 2019
Presented as part of the Citizens Women series, Stef Smith’s updating of Ibsen’s play uses a structurally impressive motif to tell the
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As well as writing hit shows including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the West End, David Greig has been artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMMonday, February 18, 2019
Directed by up-and-coming young Scottish-based director Shilpa T-Hyland, who is under 30 and engaged on the project through winning Perth Theatre’s first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMMonday, December 17, 2018
A modern arts space on the banks of the River Clyde which opened five years ago, Beacon Arts Centre shares much in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
The sense of anarchic silliness at Dunfermline’s Alhambra goes hand in hand with the decidedly old-school flavour of this year’s Christmas panto.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Following a final Edinburgh Festival Fringe run as artistic director at the Traverse during which the company’s two produced plays were showered
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMFor a stage with a more rural constituency than those in Scotland’s larger cities, Perth Theatre – under the artistic direction of
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After seven years as artistic director of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Orla O’Loughlin is moving on. She tells David Pollock about
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Working in tandem with Scottish writers and composers of contemporary musical theatre Noisemaker (Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie), Dundee Rep Ensemble and
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