Although Nikki Millican has spent the last decade pushing the New Territories Festival beyond simple definitions, Louise Lecavalier is almost too easy to categorise. Fast, furious, athletic and acrobatic, Lecavalier...
Fifty five minutes. Six boobs. One cock. Four stars.
A tableau of mini events take place in the cafe of the CCA, as Artus sift in and out of the space performing ‘table societies’, choosing to engage or ignore...
It's life, but not as we know it
Usually, l despise portrayals of mental illness on stage. All too often, madness is a signifier: an actor shouts a bit, maybe throws in a distinctive twitch and the play's...
Jill and Jack, the old woman’s children whom she used to whip soundly, have grown up into adults scarred from abuse who are waiting to meet their mother. The appointment...
Two very different companies present two programmes of dance that raises questions of performance-ready work.
At the start of the second act, fans of dance will note that the very fact of two acts expresses how ambitious and well-tended Jasmin Vardimon's lastest trip to the...
He's a sly dog, this Rob Drummond. Having spent ages telling every interviewer that there's no real intellectual justification for his love of wrestling, he comes along and throws up...
It's a folk session, it's a ballad, it's the NTS
Puppets are violent things, as any British audience must surely be aware, having been raised on the slapstick of Punch and Judy and the domestic dramas of Sooty and Sweep....
The Bohemians are back. Following a successful 2009 tour, We Will Rock You returns to Scotland in all its crowd-pleasing glory. Packed with Queen’s inherently theatrical songs and a witty...
Tony Mills is not only one of the hardest working dancers in Scotland, he is almost one of the most restless. When not painting his body white for some Butoh...
Raindog, founded around a group of actors with a vision of the plays that they wanted to see, has become more famous in the past decade for their film and...
As the final Christmas show from Scottish Ballet under the artistic direction of Ashley Page, Cinderella offers an opportunity to assess how far the company has come in the past...
However, the Citizens’ Christmas show, Scottish Ballet, Pasty Cline and a Bottle of Wine all provide more than rote routines, and the basement of The Arches hides the UK’s...
Appropriately titled for the season, the Lyceum's non-pantomime seasonal show
The oldest and largest burlesque show in the UK
Lawrence Durrell, in The Alexandria Quartets, has one of his characters say that big imaginative projects such as writing a novel have an impact on the surrounding world. In the...
SDT: NQR or PDG?
