REVIEW: Doon the Watter
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Doon the Watter’ is a cheerful play about two sisters on their holidays to a Scottish island, telling each other stories and singing together.
Iona Goodall
REVIEW: Tristan & Yseult
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou wouldn’t expect a grand, sweeping tale of medieval romance to begin with a welcome into “The Club of the Unloved”, a cagoule-clad, binocular-toting crew of lonely hearts who spy on both performers and audience through their binoculars. But in Kneehigh and Emma Rice’s Tristan and Yseult, the silly intertwines with the tragic in a rambunctious cabaret.
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.
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,…