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Theatre, Features

Feet First: Edinburgh's Hogmanay Gets Performative

Theatre :: Feature :: Preview 25 Nov 2008

Gareth K Vile: On the first day of 2009, while the majority will be nursing hangovers or spending quiet time with their families, Edinburgh’s Royal Mile will play host to many of Scotland’s most exciting performers. From old lags like Mischief La Bas, who...

OutWrite

Theatre :: Feature 20 Nov 2008

Agata Maslowska: Obviously taking their community participation remit seriously, the Traverse has been working with Her Majesty’s Young Offenders Institution Polmont on OutWrite, on a fascinating playwriting collaboration. Alongside award-winning playwright Alan...

Top Five Theatre Events - November, 2008

Theatre :: Feature 28 Oct 2008

Gareth K Vile: 1. SweetScar: 4.48 Psychosis Tramway 6-15 November A trip to the dark place, courtesy of one of the few writers who has experimented with language after Beckett. Notebooks out, plagiarists. 2. Stephen Petronio Company: Bloom Theatre Royal 4-5 November...

Traversing New Ground: Traverse Programme Autumn/Winter '08/'09

Theatre :: Feature 28 Oct 2008

Agata Maslowska: Can Edinburgh theatre thrive and surprise after the intense summer festival? Waking us up from our slumber, the Traverse has sprouted new ideas and come up with a crisp autumn/winter programme with a twist called Shoot. Two new strands aim to cultivate...

Glasgay! Does Tennessee: Short Plays with a Williams Theme

Theatre :: Feature 15 Oct 2008

Gareth K Vile: Perhaps the most exciting parts of the Tennessee Williams’ festival will be the new works fluttering around the margins, as modern writers and performers take on the swamp ghost of the southern master. While the classics retain their old charm a...

Back to the Underground

Theatre :: Feature 10 Oct 2008

Gareth K Vile: My selections in the second week of Arches Live! confirmed by impression that this was a festival that offered marvellous opportunities for young companies and performers, but lacks a populist edge. While I enjoyed every piece that I saw, being a prete...

Top Five Theatre Events in October

Theatre :: Feature 29 Sep 2008

Gareth K Vile: The Emotional Life of Furniture Little Theatre, Dundee (8 Oct) and The Tron (10-12 Oct) Part of the mental health arts festival, this one sees a performance artist infiltrate a psychiatric ward as part of their practice. An interesting idea that will h...

Student Life: Theatre ain't what it used to be

Theatre :: Student Life :: Feature 16 Sep 2008

Gareth K Vile: Even those culture vultures without an ounce of nationalist pride would be forced to admit that Scottish theatre is finally challenging the world. Scottish Ballet have become a vibrant contemporary company; The National Theatre of Scotland is collabora...

Merchant City Festival 2008 @ Various venues, Glasgow, 25-28 Sep

Theatre :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Preview 05 Sep 2008

Gareth K Vile: With the Edinburgh Festival season safely tucked away, Glasgow immediately stakes its claim to be Scotland's festival city for a bit. The Merchant City Festival is brief - running from 25 to 28 September - but dynamic, bringing together guerrilla perfo...

Top Five Theatre Events in September

Theatre :: Feature :: Preview 28 Aug 2008

Gareth K Vile: Rosalind Masson: Be Water Arches Festival, 23-26 Sep Dance on film is increasingly becoming fashionable and dynamic. A chance to see one of the local, dynamic fusion artists in action and on celluloid. Seeds of Thought CCA, 6 Sep Multiple art forms, f...

Dance House

Theatre :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Gareth K Vile: Since its inception in 1998, Dance House has offered classes for adults, creative residencies for choreographers, and developed community performances, such as 2000’s Carmina Burana. The dynamic team of Administrative Director Sheila McCubbin an...

Dance Base

Theatre :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Gareth K Vile: A great deal of fun comes from a cursory glance at Dance Base's autumn programme. Pole dance workshops vie for attention next to Taoist Tai Chi; a Rambert masterclass rivals a Very Red moving and grooving session for all levels. The range of classes - ...

NLP Theatre: There's No Limit for Some People

Theatre :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Michael Cox: After a short, yet triumphant run at the Citizens Theatre in June, Singing I’m No A Billy He’s A Tim is returning for a Scottish tour. The production, NLP Theatre’s first professional venture, is as colourful as the history behind th...

Dancebase's Gift Selection

Theatre :: Feature 29 Jul 2008

Gareth K Vile: Even spending a short amount of time with Morag Deyes is to be plunged into a whirlpool of enthusiasms and informed opinions. Her Fringe programme at Dancebase is a perfect expression of her attitude- diverse, inclusive and challenging, but not without...

Jonathan Mills on what an international festival should be

Theatre :: Music :: Heads Up :: Feature 28 Jul 2008

RJ Thomson: There are loads of folk out there who will readily make vague general statements about how inter-disciplinary practice, and breaking down the boundaries between things, are what they're 'all about'. But for Jonathan Mills, the Director of the Edinburgh...

A Play, a Pie and a Pint

Theatre :: Feature 25 Jun 2008

Debbie Martin: I’m not making a very good impression on the afternoon theatre regulars at Oran Mor. As I shuffle along the tightly packed rows of tables, I manage to jostle three pints of beer and almost drop my vegetarian pie down the neck of a bemused-lookin...

Top Five Theatre Events in July

Theatre :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jun 2008

Gareth K Vile: Peeping at Bosch Tramway, Glasgow10-13 July Mischief La Bas, the National Theatre and Tramway team up: medieval mysticism, broad humour and site responsive sculpture. Let the mayhem begin. Pornography Traverse, Edinburgh28 July-24 August Engaged pol...

Here Now There Now

Theatre :: Feature 16 Jun 2008

Agata Maslowska: By taking on unexpected forms, art makes us more aware of our automatised actions and thinking. Last month in Scotland train commuters could experience the influence of this so-called de-automatisation through the text and performance based project, He...

Romeo and Juliet, around Scotland, May-Jun 2008

Theatre :: Feature :: Preview 24 Apr 2008

Susannah Radford: Forbidden love, feuding families and murder: Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is high octane, emotion fuelled drama. A story constantly being reinvented both in film and dance, it’s no surprise that when Artistic Director Ashley Page decide...

Animal Night - The Wasp Factory

Theatre :: Feature :: Preview 11 Apr 2008

Alan Smithee:   On its release, Iain Banks' debut novel was shocking; gaining equal applause and notoriety. Cumbernauld Theatre’s decision to produce the Wasp Factory revives the story of perfectly ordinary sixteen year old serial killer Frank and his fa...