Theatre

Lee Hall is best known for Billy Elliot, but in 1997 his play Spoonface Steinberg was broadcast by the BBC to…
ā€˜Democracy’ uses its title several times in the course of this story that can’t quite make up its mind where…
Storytelling: it’s something we all do in various forms on a daily basis – a means of communication that we…
The candlelit ambience of early 17th century Holyrood palace is created with some courtly music in the…
Scandalous Scots is an enticing title for Tightlaced Theatre’s 2012/13 season.
Ankur Productions is a Glasgow-based company committed to changing the way Black Minority and Ethnic people…
It is always appealing to hear that a hitherto little or unknown story about brave women is being brought…
De Dansers, from Utrecht in the Netherlands, dance like no-one’s watching but ā€˜door Christ!’ you’ll be glad…
ā€˜The Show must go on’ was a maxim that P.T. Barnum and Brian Conley would probably share.
Bringing a forgotten hero out from the shadows is always an admirable undertaking.
Blackout traces the different stories of five alcoholics from their first drink to the last, and the terror…
The pale corporation - green tiles of the cold stark set of a psychiatric ward already made for a chilling…
Sylvester McCoy, probably best known for playing the seventh Dr Who, is indulging in a little switch to the…
David Essex may be the main attraction but ā€˜All the fun of the Fair ā€˜has a lot more going for it!
There’s always something problematic about a fiction based on a truth; unavoidably both are compromised in…
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are in some ways the poetic equivalents of Greek tragedy and comedy; the latter a…
A Sockful of Custard is an affectionate tribute to troubled comic genius Spike Milligan which has a lot more…
A Wild Growling Happiness, created by performers from the Estonian State Puppet and Youth Theatre and…
Firmly in the saddle of their 10th Anniversary UK tour, the National Theatre return to the Festival Theatre…
ā€œIf I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetryā€ ― Emily Dickinson (1830…