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Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: April 2018
Did somebody say Festival? No, not the one that we love and fear, but the end of March and the start of April marks the beginning of the 2018 Edinburgh Inter... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Theatre
McLuckie's Line: A Love Letter to Scottish Theatre
In 2015, the Scottish actor Brian Cox was interviewed in The Stage, and lamented the lack of opportunities for working class actors available today, say... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Theatre
Scottish Theatre Highlights: May 2018
Oh May, oh May. The Scottish theatrical calendar has been building for months, and May is the busiest yet. One of the biggest events in theatre in May is Ma... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Theatre
Contemporary performance festival Take Me Somewhere returns
It’s pointless to write a feature about Scotland’s newest festival of contemporary performance, Take Me Somewhere, without mentioning the debt it... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Fringe 2018: Masculinity in Theatre
For Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair, ideas of masculinity form the basis of Square Go. It's a coming-of-age story that follows a 13-year-old called Max, who&rs... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Mind Health: SMHAF's 2018 Theatre Programme
“A common misconception about the festival, and work exploring mental health more generally, is that it can be depressing,” begins Gail Aldam, Fe... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
Duckie @ Summerhall
If the world is a stage, then Duckie, played by the impeccable Le Gateau Chocolat, is in the best possible place. A born performer, this precocious little du... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Cora Bissett on her Gagarin Way revival
It’s hard to put into words the effect that Gagarin Way, the first play from a then-unknown Fife playwright called Gregory Burke, had on Scottish theat... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: November 2018
Oh, flippin’ heck. It can’t be November, surely? Before Panto season descends, here’s a rough guide to what to expect from the Scottish sta... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Chrysalis: Scotland's Youth Theatre Festival Returns
For the fourth year running, and in what just so happens to be the Scottish Government’s Year of Young People, Chrysalis Festival will set up camp at t... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
The Panto-Free Guide to Christmas Theatre
Ah, pantomime. Out of every artform available to people around the world, this has to be the theatre lover’s Marmite. For every ten people that love pa... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Mouthpiece @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Twilight. Two characters from opposing backgrounds that just so happen to find themselves on Salisbury Crags at the same time. Libby (Neve McIntosh) is a was... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Louise Welsh on Scottish Opera's Anthropocene
“I’m always very busy, partly because I worry about what happens when it stops?” That's the response of author Louise Welsh when asked abou... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Theatre
Touching the Void @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
There’s something about Touching the Void. Maybe it’s the impossible story. Maybe it’s the setting. Maybe it’s the screaming. Whateve... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Theatre
Vanishing Point and The New International on The Dark Carnival
Flashes of inspiration can come to anyone from anywhere. For director Matthew Lenton, the founder and Artistic Director of Vanishing Point, it all began when... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Theatre
Brexit, Stage Left: Scottish Theatre and Europe
It started, as so many things do these days, with a Twitter thread about Brexit. But, unlike most Twitter threads about Brexit, this one – by former Ar... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Theatre
Election Time in Pantoland: A Scottish Panto Guide
Sick of elections? Well, guess what? The good people of Pantoland are fed up of them too! But they're getting another one, just at the same time as the UK. W... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: July 2018
While preparations for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August are heating up, the Scottish theatre calendar is as strong as ever, with a number of great pro... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: September 2018
If you thought the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was THE main event in the Scottish theatre calendar, then you’re not entirely right, as September is hoach... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Comedy
Mark Thomas on comedy in Palestine & Bob Geldof
"It’s great, it’s like being in a sort of punk rock gang that’s got really good culinary skills," says Mark Thomas. His latest show, Showti... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Theatre
The Five Fuckboys of Christmas Pantomime
It’s the time of year where theatres across Scotland invite the pantos in. But among the glitter, the tinsel and the panto dames lies a sinister secret... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Theatre in Dark Times
It would be an understatement to say that we live in strange times, but the main thing about these weird days is that by the time this piece is published, ev... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
What the Fuck is Les Misérables? A Guide
What is Les Mis? Les Mis, or to give it its full name, Les Misérables, is a musical – music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and original Frenc... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Queen for a Day: Jock Tamson's Bairns tours Scotland
There could be many reasons why I might find myself in CC Bloom’s toilets on a Thursday afternoon, sponging foundation on my face under the watchful ey... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: March 2019
It’s really not an understatement to say that March is an incredibly busy month in theatre, and in Scotland, the stages are groaning with the sheer vol... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Fringe 2018: What to see at the Big Four
Four comedy shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 Beard: Baby Come BackIt's three years since oddball double-act Beard last played Edinburgh. This year they... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
Echo Machine @ Conroy's Basement, Dundee, 20 Jul
Echo Machine make their debut performance before a home crowd in Conroy’s Basement, Dundee. With support from industrial pop-punk duo, Queequeg’s... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
Brian Taylor on Mom and Dad, Nic Cage and Crank 3
“My relationship with my parents was great. I never felt like they wanted to kill me. They disguised that very well.”Although the above may sound... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Whats On
Amyl and the Sniffers
Australian punk rockers led by vocalist Amy Taylor (not she of ex-Skinny fame). Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Music
Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort to Me
Everyone’s favourite mullet-adorned mad squad, Amyl and the Sniffers are back with their sophomore album, Comfort to Me. Their self-titled 2019 LP shot... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago