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 08:46AMRoyal 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 11:43AMFrom 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 08:32AMDundee 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 06:35AMAdam 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 07:34AMCitizens, 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 10:51AMTron, 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 07:45AMTron, 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 04:50AMRoyal 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 07:54AMEdinburgh 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 09:32AMCitizens, 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 07:51AMPlatform, 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 09:06AMTron, 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 11:15PMRoyal 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 05:46AMTheatres 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 02:55AMTraverse, 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 09:46AMTron, 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 08:19AMCitizens, 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 10:16AMMacrobert 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 08:32AMRoyal 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 07:28AMCitizens 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 09:57AMSpectrum 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 07:34PMCustom 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 07:16AMTron 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 10:31AMRoyal 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 08:34AMRoyal 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 08:06AMTheir paths have crossed throughout their acting careers, but Brian Cox and Bill Paterson will finally team up for the ultimate double act: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. They discuss its ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMDundee RepThis update of John McGrath’s epic play is the rousing theatrical equivalent of a Proclaimers gigTold as a Brechtian ceilidh with song, poetry, scenes and sketches, John McGrath�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTheatre Royal, GlasgowDirector Michael Emans’s production fails to ignite the passion of Arthur Miller’s postwar classicEvery so often a news story breaks that reminds you of All My Sons…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMFrom his sister’s brain tumour to his family’s cramped flat, the revered actor and director Robert Lepage has plundered his childhood to tell the story of Quebec’s often violent strugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMGlasgow Botanic GardensJennifer Dick’s streamlined production makes a persuasive case for Shakespeare’s tale of the flighty monarchYou wait 420 years for what might be the first professi…
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