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Eating People is Easy
It's difficult to know where to place Gregory Burke's short comedy, Battery Farm. It's certainly a comedy, with the cast mugging up the humour and Andy Gray spinning a vaudeville turn as the human-about-to-become-lunch Read more »| 17 Mar 2010 -
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London Irish Beauty
The Lyceum is supposed to be conservative, Yet it seems to have a better idea for a modern classic than previously acknowledged Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
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Soup and A Pie
If a play is about God, online criticism and heartbreak, and I am not in tears by the end, consider it a fail. Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
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Death and Burlesque
The twin muses of Experimental Performance and Burlesque battle for the soul of the theatre critic. What will happen? Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
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La Bohème Review
Does opera reduce outsiders to something safe for the picture frame? Read more »| 12 Mar 2010 -
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La Cheetah Burlesque March Show
The Burlesque scene within Glasgow is growing at a rapid pace, with new events popping up all over the place. La Cheetah! is the new brainchild of Dolly Tartan based in the heart of Glasgow City Centre. Read more »| 10 Mar 2010
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A 2-Dimensional Stance
Part of the joy in New Territories is seeing so much work in such a short period of time. Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
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All That Glitters...
The debut of new company Playathome is described as 'a visual and aural experience' Read more »| 05 Mar 2010 -
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Kill Your Patriarchal Assumptions
Arika have taken a huge risk with Kill Your Timid Notion. Abandoning traditional performances- the music might have been experimental but the boys in the band still got to play the artists to the crowd’s groupies- they have been terrorising the DCA with workshops and collaborations Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
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Promises Promises
It should have been a normal day. Instead semi-retired supply teacher Maggie Brodie encounters a highly charged situation when the new girl in her class needs to be exorcised in her classroom. Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
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Coming All Over The Keyboard
A husband is caught, pants around ankles, face lit up by laptop and arm pumping. A wife flees the family home, porn actors recollect glorious pasts while popping Viagra. Saturated by sex, the characters stumble from one empty encounter to another, naive then jaded, frustrated, never able to come enough times, never able to connect Read more »| 26 Feb 2010 -
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A Lot of Alienation
The National Theatre has given the keys to an old shop in Govan Cross to some of Glasgow’s most energetic young performers. Read more »| 25 Feb 2010 -
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Back Beat
The Beatles are not only one of the most celebrated artistic sparks in history; they are also one of the most romanticised. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Uncluttered and Companionable
Clutter Keeps Company has a brilliant lighting design. All nuance and subtle movement, it brings the simple set to life as a pop-up book, clear and coherent.... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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What We Wish Was True
Watching What We Know, I am fascinated by the central scene, where the grieving Lucy is confronted by a baleful youth who demands food and dispenses gnomic w... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010