Scottish Theatre Highlights: March 2022
Spring at Scotland's theatres brings a barrage of new shows at Traverse, The Tron and Dundee Rep, as well as the return of Dance International Glasgow
2022 spring seasons are packed with fantastic sounding shows, and it's all taking off in March. In Edinburgh, new writing haven Traverse Theatre present Fringe hit The Gardener (1-2 Mar), Ryan Calais Cameron's Human Nurture (17-19 Mar) and Tonderai Munyeva's music-infused one man show Mugabe, My Dad & Me (23-26 Mar). The Traverse also hosts five A Play, A Pie And A Pint shows this month: stand-outs include DC Jackson's I'm Dissolving My Love In A Bath Of Acid (15-19 Mar), and Rob Drummond's Milkshake (22-26 Mar).
In Glasgow, Tramway's DIG Spring Season will definitely get you tapping along. Suzi Cunningham pays homage to both Mark E. Smith and her beloved grandmother in a visceral double bill described as 'slinky yet ferocious' (Rules To Live By / EIDOS, 1-2 Mar). On 5 Mar, Pancha Dala will tell five stories told through the Bharatanatyam classical dance style from South Asia.
Theatre nerds would be mad to miss Vanishing Point's Metamorphosis at the Tron (16-26 Mar). Matthew Lenton's interpretation of Kafka's insecty classic created 'quite the buzz' in 2020 – only to be shut down due to a different sort of bug. Tron have two more great-sounding shows lined up, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything (23 Mar-2 Apr) and Julius Caesar (31 Mar-2 Apr). The latter is a highly physical interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy from Company of Wolves – you can read our interview with director Ewan Downie in our March issue, out this week.
Dundee Rep is kicking off the spring with the Scottish Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's award-nominated play The Children, an eco-thriller bound to have you on the edge of your seat. On the 25th, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre are presenting a brand new show from the Dundee Rep Young Company called Optimism, about confronting a bleak future (25-26 Mar).