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27

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Religion and science form an alliance of sorts in 27, a new co-production between the Lyceum and the NTS. Written by Abi Morgan and directed by Vicky Featherstone, this play analyses the consequences of conducting scientific research in a contemporary ...

Thu 03 Nov 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Dunsinane »

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Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, Macbeth, is once more revisited in David Greig’s Dunsinane. Directed by Roxana Silbert, this co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company ploughs the depth of Scott...

Wed 12 Oct 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The Missing »

The Missing

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The search for missing people, and the people they leave behind is the painful subject of Andrew O’Hagan’s The Missing. Adapted from O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel of the same name, and directed by John Tiffany, this production is a ...

Mon 03 Oct 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

A Dead Man's Dying »

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This season at Òran Mór the stage became a platform for contemporary Latin American drama. A Dead Man’s Dying is by Colombian playwright Esteban Navajas Cortes, and was adapted into English by Davey Anderson. Don Agustino (Lewis Ho...

Sat 07 May 2011 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Somersaults »

Somersaults

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When a joke is told in the theatre and only two people laugh, the consensus is that it probably wasn’t a good joke. However, in Somersaults, the newest play by Gaelic playwright Iain Finlay Macleod, the circumstances have changed. The joke is in ...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Girl X »

Robert Softley in Girl X

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Going into a production like Girl X, audiences are bound to have formed an opinion on the controversial topic which inspired the piece. Written by Robert Softley and Pol Heyvaert (both of whose credits are too extensive to go into here), Girl X is base...

Tue 15 Mar 2011 by Derval Tannam | Read more »

Black Watch »

l-r: Scott Fletcher (Kenzie), Jamie Quinn (Fraz) in Black Watch

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"The SECC? What pish are you going to see there, then?" demanded our taxi driver when we informed him of our desired destination. But he quickly fell quiet once he heard the words 'Black Watch'; such is the power of the National Theatre of Scotland&rsq...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Back to Black Watch »

Paul James Corrigan in the 2008 run of Black Watch

"It’s a story that’s very sadly become universal," says director John Tiffany when asked about the continuing appeal of Gregory Burke’s award-winning play Black Watch, which begins a new world tour this month at Glasgow’s SECC a...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Peter Pan »

Kirsty Mackay and Kevin Guthrie in Peter Pan

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The latest incarnation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan makes its stage debut in this co-production between the NTS and The Barbican. Directed by Black Watch director John Tiffany and written by Midsummer’s David Greig, this new adaptation sees S...

Thu 13 May 2010 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The House of Bernarda Alba »

Siobhan Redmond

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The theme of the dysfunctional family is one that has appeared in many art forms and is also the subject of scrutiny in Rona Munro’s second translation of Frederico Garcia Lorca’s 1936 drama, The House of Bernarda Alba. Directed by John Tif...

Wed 11 Nov 2009 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

Cockroach »

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Edinburgh graduate Sam Holcroft's first work, Cockroach, is a smart, witty play about the extremes created by the scenario of war as well as by our internal biological makeup. Beth is a biology teacher in a class with a group of five bickering teenager...

Thu 30 Oct 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

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