Traverse patrons fill the seats of the live studio audience of a pseudo-realistic game show False. Staff bustle around the set touching up make-up before a trio of contestants enter to provide cliched responses to presenter Daniel Caplin's (Jonathan Wa...
Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Celia Dugua | Read more »
Despite what its image might suggest, The Rocky Horror Show is not part of the musical scene currently milking the nostalgia factor (Viva la Vida, We Will Rock You). Jim Sharman’s original production in 1973 presented a shamelessly ind...
Mon 18 Mar 2013 by Celia Dugua | Read more »
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Wed 23 Jan 2013 by Celia Dugua, Lucy Arditti | Read more »
Director Matthew Lenton (of Vanishing Point Theatre Company) brings a delightful portrayal of romance and magic to Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. The setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream surprises the audience with its roaring blizzard of a hars...
Wed 07 Nov 2012 by Varia Fedko-Blake | Read more »
The Stage of the Citizen’s Theatre is transformed into a cold dystopian representation of a Drumchapel high rise flat. The concrete, soulless backdrop stretches high into the sky. It doesn’t look like a home. Why would anyone live here? Ye...
Wed 07 Nov 2012 by Mark Muir | Read more »
Ella Hickson’s seemingly semi-autobiographical new play The Authorised Kate Bane focuses on both the authenticity of a remembered past, and the authenticity of a theatrical performance. When Kate Bane (Jenny Hulse) stays the night at her parents&...
Wed 24 Oct 2012 by Lucy Arditti | Read more »
Haunting Julia is a ghost story about how three men 'haunt' a ghost, rather than being perpetually plagued by her presence. The play is set in a museum that has been built around a room in which Julia — a young musical prodigy &mda...
Wed 24 Oct 2012 by Roxy Cook | Read more »
Michel Tremblay's charming Scots adaptation of the Québécois play Les Belles-Soeurs transforms the auditorium of the Lyceum theatre into a cramped and dingy space, with walls widening between scenes to accommodate the large cast. A f...
Wed 10 Oct 2012 by Celia Dugua | Read more »
In its seventy five years since premiering, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play has inspired several ballets and an opera, as well as the 'definitive' screen version, staring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh in the staring roles. With their ...
Sun 20 May 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »
Harold Pinter once remarked ‘I'm not an authoritative or reliable commentator on the dramatic scene, the social scene, any scene’ he was also reluctant to divulge or even acknowledge the politics and critical theories in his work. However, it's a commo...
Wed 09 May 2012 by Charles Tyrer | Read more »
Applause and laughter flood the audience as Peter Arnott leads an hour-long performance flitting between the philosophical, religious and moral. Arnott is the playwright in residence with University of Edinburgh’s ESRC Genomics Forum and the piece bein...
Wed 09 May 2012 by Jared Cohen | Read more »
Since the inception of contemporary dance half a century ago, an ideological split has existed as to how to train dancers for the avant-garde 'dance theatre'. Many purists believed that as an experimental movement, contemporary dance had to develop its...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »
In some ways it's hard not to admire David Nixon's unrelenting commitment to new work, which he continues to direct and choreograph for Northern Ballet. In the past he's tackled the Emily Bronte classic Wuthering Heights, as well as the epic tale of Cl...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »
The Lyceum Theatre's latest offering this season is an adaptation of Beaumarchais’ 1778 play, The Marriage of Figaro, by DC Jackson. Jackson and director Mark Thomson transport the classic story of aristocratic corruption in 18th century Fra...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »
2401 Objects is the Fringe First winning play from the exciting young company Analogue. Written by Hannah Barker, Lewis Hetherington and Liam Jarvis, the play tells the story of Henry Molaison, who in 1953 emerged from the experimental brain surgery th...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Rebecca Tamás | Read more »
As Scottish Opera prepare to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary this year, they offer us David McVicar's production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which is as joyous and accomplished as one could hope for. Deserving the highest of praise,...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Jonathan Goat | Read more »
Expert producer Bill Kenwright triumphs again in English writer Mike Scott’s risqué comedy Funny Peculiar. Packed with hilarity and bursting with the bawdy spirit of the 1970s, Funny Peculiar takes the audience through an uproarious journe...
Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Jared Cohen | Read more »
Scottish Dance Theatre have started their spring tour; for the company, it is one with particular significance and a time to reflect upon their achievements. Come Autumn, Artistic Director Janet Smith will be leaving after a phenomenal 14 years. Undoub...
Mon 23 Apr 2012 by Charles Tyrer | Read more »
Religion, lust, power and politics form a heady, lethal mix in this production by the English Touring Theatre of Howard Brenton’s Tudor tale. First performed in London’s Globe Theatre and deftly directed by John Dove, Anne Boleyn tells the ...
Sat 21 Apr 2012 by Rebecca Tamás | Read more »