Theatre
Cryptic, an internationally-renowned producing art house based in Glasgow, has brought together some…
The New Writing Festival at the Traverse was an event. Its significance at a time when, like Scotland itself…
To put on ‘the poor mouth’ is a Gaelic expression, meaning to complain unduly about your misfortunes.
It’s as ‘corny as Kansas in August’, but this production of 42nd Street is to quote a line from the show ‘…
There’s something of a pun in the title of this play by Douglas Maxwell for Lung Ha Theatre Company, although…
The intense bond between mother and child, that in early days can be so close that identities blur, is at the…
The idea of soup is usually a comforting one but it is a bit disconcerting, or at least bemusing, to be…
Still gallus after all these years!
Laughter in the Rain – the Neil Sedaka Story was full of surprises and all of them good. Although the songs…
Trick of The Light and Zanetti Productions brings a haunting tale for children aged 8-13years, all the way…
After a nationwide tour in 2016, Cirque Berserk land in Edinburgh for seven performances of their wonderful…
First of all, I confess to not having a word of the Gaelic. Scots, a minority language also protected…
In 1836 aged just twenty, Charlotte Brontë sent a sample of her poetry to the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey,…
The premiere of Black Coffee in December 1930 was reviewed in The Times:
Mamma Mia sails incongruously into panto season at the Playhouse on a warm breeze wafting sun, sea, sex and…
The ability to 'tell' something is facilitated through the use of language, however the cognitive processes…
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of David McKee’s affectionately remembered TV series, Mr Benn, Tall…
Over the last 18months, current students and graduates of the Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice course at…
Masculine mime with a mixed up message.
Twelve Angry Men, which was written in the 1950’s by Reginald Rose, has endured the decades because it is a…