Reviews
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ReviewsA Midsummer Night's Dream @ Bard in the Botanics
It's the most commonly performed script to feature in Bard in the Botanics' 2015 season, but Emily Reutlinger's 20th century take on A Midsummer Night's... Read more »| 02 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsThe Plant @ 24:7 Festival
The Plant begins with a mystery: two men with numbers tattooed on their necks and wearing identical outfits (white tees, grey sweatpants) appear to be p... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
FestivalsGary: a Love Story @ 24:7 Festival
With all the talk of this perhaps being 24:7’s final outing it has been easy to forget that we still had this year’s festival to enjoy. Taking pl... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
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Love's Labour's Lost @ Bard in the Botanics
Year in, year out, Bard in the Botanics has to contend with the Glaswegian weather, and the cast of this year’s Love’s Labour’s Lost must b... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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MIF15: Neck of the Woods @ HOME, Manchester
Prior to the performance of Neck of the Woods, an announcement is made that anyone uncomfortable with complete darkness should swiftly leave the auditorium. ... Read more »| 13 Jul 2015 -
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Torn @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Faux Theatre's Torn has created a unique and imaginative way of portraying the intricacies of heartbreak. The 50-minute performance, which is entir... Read more »| 10 Jul 2015
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The Driver's Seat @ Lyceum Theatre
Is Lise a victim? This question haunts The Driver's Seat, with Laurie Sansom’s superb rendering of the balance between power and vulnerability which dr... Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
Festivals
MIF15: The Skriker @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Skriker opens with a verbal assault. In some nightmarish netherworld, the title character, played by a pixie-haired, wild-eyed Maxine Peake, delivers a b... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
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MIF15: Tree of Codes @ Opera House, Manchester
Tree of Codes does what Manchester International Festival does best: bring together several interesting artists and set them loose on an unusual project, in ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
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MIF15: wonder.land @ Palace Theatre, Manchester
It is notoriously difficult to represent the virtual world in physical art. A new musical scored by Damon Albarn and premiering at Manchester International F... Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
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The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
Adapting one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous works was never going to be an easy task, but Morna Pearson’s reimagining of his classic sto... Read more »| 11 May 2015 -
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Whisky Galore @ Sunart Centre
Iain Finlay Macleod’s new Gaelic adaption of Compton MacKenzie’s Whisky Galore (with English surtitles) captures the spirit of storytel... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
TheatreBEHAVIOUR 2015: Lippy and O is for Hoolet
Dead Centre’s Lippy is a play in three acts. The first is humorous and wrong-foots the audience, and while the second and third acts are much dark... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
If art, by its very nature, is political, then Mark Thomson’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 parable for the ages, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
The Fair Intellectual Club
The Fair Intellectual Club, directed for Stellar Quines by Marilyn Imrie, is a force of strong females, both in and out of the production. The first play pen... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015