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REVIEW: Nutcracker

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Traditional Festive Fun” The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Nutcracker was not a performance of the famous ballet. Instead the piece chose to highlight the music and storytelling of the show, putting a spotlight on the musicians who are often tucked…

REVIEW: Dancing Shoes

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Hilarious and Heartwarming – Without Ever Pulling Its Punches” Dancing Shoes isn’t quite the play you might expect from its title. The words ‘dancing shoes’ suggest something light and playfully funny, and certainly not a story about…

REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is there to say about Beauty and the Beast that has not been said before? A classic fairy tale that everyone from Disney-film-watching-age up knows the story beats to, it takes a brave artistic team with drive and a vision to retell it in a refreshing way to justify the new direction, and to also retell it in a way that’s close enough to the original to stay faithful to the themes of transformation, love, and redemption.