Doing a solo show is a marathon for any actor, and when it's a full-length play and you're delivering in a Scouse accent instead of your native Scots, even more so. I could have done with Sally Reid projecting a bit more last night, but…
Damian Barr's turbulent story of growing up in 1980's Lanarkshire was named Sunday Times Memoir of the Year and is now a Scottish classic. And his stage play, which he wrote with James Ley, is certain to win many more accolades. Produced by the National…
This latest adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel is…extraordinary! In just a few sentences I learned more about the First World War than I ever have but, more importantly, I really felt what it must have been like to live in a close,…
As a woman travelling home alone from this show I should have been afraid, very afraid. For this powerful play is fizzing with anger against a violent society and and how some men treat women and girls. But it can't be as bad as Maureen…
Since it premiered at the Lyceum in February last year, Zinnie Harris's groundbreaking adaptation of 'the Scottish play' has won over audiences in both London and New York. Now it is back where it all began, and it's even more thrilling. Multi-award winning Harris retells…
I always look forward to Matthew Bourne's productions. He never fails to impress, inspire and entertain us with his boundless imagination and stellar choreography. It's a real privilege to be in his audience. Tim Burton's 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp in the title…
The characters of five girls who live in a London boarding house immediately after the war in 1945 are beautifully drawn in Gabriel Quigley's exciting reworking of the novella by Edinburgh's own Muriel Sparks. Dripping with Sparks' signature wit, The Girls of Slender Means charts…
There's nothing better than seeing children engaging in the theatre from an early age. They are not only our future audiences but our future actors and technicians. AND our future playwrights! Formed at the Traverse Theatre, Class Act is one organization which is making inroads…
Emma Rice is a force to be reckoned with. A groundbreaking writer and director, her reworkings of traditional texts are sometimes controversial and attract mixed reviews. But her productions are always exciting, never boring, however much she plays with the original stories. The first half…
Having tried to watch the filmed version on two occasions, and failing, I wasn't convinced that Hamilton would be for me. How wrong I was! This has to be one of the most exciting, technically brilliant, beautifully staged productions I have ever seen, with everyone…