Theatre | Feature
Gareth K Vile: The National Review is the grand finale of the New Territories Festival. Once a European dance festival, it has gradually evolved into an internationa...
Michael Cox: "Fun. That really is important. People say that ‘it’s great fun’. It’s not called ‘a play’ for some accident. ...
Gareth K Vile: Where did the inspiration for Clutter come from? "Morven came to me with the brief to write a play ‘inspired by place’, which started me ...
Lauren Mayberry: Performance has, in recent years, become increasingly important to the 34-year-old novelist. “One of the things you have to do when you’re...
Gareth K Vile: Despite the challenges of post-modernism and increased lip-service given to collective action in the arts, performance and the person of the artist re...
Gareth K Vile: The overwhelming presence of the Festival and Fringe can give the impression that Edinburgh has an exceedingly healthy theatre culture. While the main...
Gareth K Vile: Now comfortably residing at The Traverse, and fitting with Dominic Hill’s adventurous programming of new performance, programmer Simon Hart hope...
Margaret Kirk: Across Scotland this month, even as the theatre relaxes after the seasonal boom, three dance events are still treading the boards. All of them share a...
Gareth K Vile: While the biggest performance news of the year might have been the change from The Arts Council to Creative Scotland, with various headlines suggestin...
Tricia Hagenbuch: You cannot fully grasp the difference between UK and US performance until you have borne witness to a proper down-and-dirty New York burlesque show, a...
Susannah Radford: There’s been a theatre on the Nicolson Street site since 1830, meaning that Southsiders have been served their dose of culture, or popular enter...
Colin Chaloner: A site-specific promenade piece pitched somewhere between installation and performance art, it's hardly conventional theatre, and yet very acce...
Gareth K Vile: Morag Deyes MBE, artistic director of Dance Base, is one of the most restless agitators in the Scottish arts. Not content with an award winnin...
Gareth K Vile: The British Dance Edition is the place where British choreographers and companies get to show what they can offer, between panels and lectures on vari...
Michael Cox: "It is an easygoing environment, a social experiment and a place to kick back at the weekend. It’s high quality theatre, visual art, computer g...
