REVIEW: The Marriage of Figaro
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s one of the most popular operas of all time and has one of Mozart’s most iconic scores, and the Scottish Opera’s production more than does it justice.
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REVIEW: Witches Corner
Reading Time: 2 minutesA wild, witchy blend of past and present feminist struggle.
REVIEW: The Mountaintop
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thundery night in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr stayed at a motel in Memphis. In Katori Hall’s play, The Mountaintop, he then discovers that by tomorrow, he will be dead.
REVIEW: Keli
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf, after reading the programme, you're thinking “this show sounds a bit like a Scottish version of Brassed Off”, you’d be half right. It’s also about a brass band based in a historical mining town, and the community created around it, but with a very different tone and sensibility.
REVIEW: Through The Shortbread Tin
Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough the Shortbread Tin isn’t a show about the black and white - it’s an intricate cross-examination of the murky truths and deceptions behind not only James MacPherson’s 1766 poetic epic Ossian, but himself and the Scotland of now.
REVIEW: Death of A Salesman
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Hayman leads this haunting and fresh classic
REVIEW: A View From The Bridge
Reading Time: 2 minutesA melting pot of conversations about gender, power, immigration and justice For her first show at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre as Artistic Director, Jemima Levick has chosen a classic play with modern relevance – a melting pot of…
REVIEW: Edinburgh Manipulate Festival International Shorts: On the Edge & Queer Stories
Reading Time: 3 minutesShort film programming that is diverse, thought-provoking and creative Manipulate Festival is one of Edinburgh’s smaller, more niche arts festivals that fits nicely into the calendar to brighten up a dreary February. Now in its 18th edition,…
REVIEW:World’s Evolution by Three60
Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant dance journey with a few rough edges
REVIEW: Perfect Dead Girls
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart primary school disco, part Hunger Games In Perfect Dead Girls, a new performance co-created by its cast, Elizabeth Robbins and Chelsea Grace, with movement direction by Steph Austin, we enter a liminal space between life and…