Interviews
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Interviews
NLP Theatre: There's No Limit for Some People
A new company take on an old problem. Michael Cox adjusts his No Limit People. Read more »| 28 Aug 2008 -
Festivals
Dancebase's Gift Selection
The National Centre for Dance throws open its studios to audiences but once a year in an exploion of possibilities. Read more »| 29 Jul 2008 -
Festivals
Jonathan Mills on what an international festival should be
Jonathan Mills was considered to have comparatively little experience when he took up the post of Director of the Edinburgh International Festival last year. The Skinny tends to favour the outsider, though, so RJ Thomson is pleased to find him abounding in ideas on how the face of the 61 year old institution is changing under his watch. Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Interviews
Interview with David McLennan: A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor
Something of a secret success story, Oran Mor has pioneered lunchtime drama. The Skinny gets woozily cultured in the West End Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Interviews
Here Now There Now
Dance can move outside theatres to devastating effect: The Skinny looks for movement out of the train window Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Interviews
Upgrade to downgrade?
SF: As Andy Arnold moves to take the reigns at The Tron theatre, The Skinny finds out how his radical Arches track-record will carry over to his well-to-do new post
PQ: ""theatre should be fairly sordid - and this is why I love The Arches - it should be dangerous and dank"" Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Interviews
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair tweaks the traditional 'boy meets girl' scenario into girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, and another boy... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Interviews
Ghost in the Machine
When a young widow begins to hear messages emerging from the crackle and hiss of a compilation tape she becomes convinced her husband is communicating from beyond the grave. Grief can do strange things to the human psyche but music is a powerful communicator as Suspect Culture Artistic Director Graham Eatough explains to Hugo Fluendy Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty.....I'd rather be Little Red Riding Hood
Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
Horse's mouth
The revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus had London critics in transports of delight. The Skinny's Adam McCully talks to the man himself, lead actor and national institution Simon Callow, to see what all the fuss is about Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
NRLA 2009
SF: Not one but two thought-provoking arts festivals visit the Tramway in quick succession this month. The Skinny meets the people behind this hive of activity and finds out what it's all about
PQ: ""The image I always use when people ask me what the hell it is all about is of a great big swimming pool. Just jump in and splash around"" - Ian Smith Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
It's A Wonderful Life
As much as The Skinny really wants to unequivocally like this show, there are things that just don't work. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
SHADOWPLAY
This month's puppetry festival Manipulate at Dundee Rep relocates the marionettes art into an adult, more shadowy realm of exitential terror and nightmarish otherness. Gareth K. Vile meets the man pulling the strings. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
CHAPTER AND TRAVERSE
SF:
Scotland's new writing theatre has a new artistic director. Although it's too soon for Dominic Hill to have made an impact, the first full season under his charge will be the most keenly watched in more than a decade. Traverse Associate Producer Laura Collier lays out the full Traverse Spring Season 2008 exclusively for The Skinny
PQ:
if there's one thing that binds this very diverse programme together into a cohesive whole, it's these little connections that make up a sort of extended Traverse family Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
2007 (pt2)
I thought Peer Gynt was an absolutely fantastic production of what's considered to be a difficult play. It just shows what we can do: Dominic Hill wanted to ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007