Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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ShowsFirearms and Fingertips @ Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester, 27-30 Nov
Spencer has been shot. He’s lying in a hospital bed, in an operating room. Doctors are swarming all around him, and his mother is waiting desperately a... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
ShowsThe Lion King @ The Edinburgh Playhouse
Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Doras Dùinte (Closed Door) @ Òran Mór
The ever changing power balance between the leads makes for interesting viewing in Catrìona Lexy Chaimbeul’s new play Doras Dùinte, ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Grave Undertaking @ Òran Mór
Fire and pyre make a good rhyming pair but Paddy Cunneen’s Grave Undertaking also includes a singing corpse who rhymes pride with formaldehyd... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Saint One @ Oran Mor
It’s an unbeatable premise. One of Scotland’s favourite actresses takes on the Big Yin himself. Oh and it’s set in a ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
ShowsThe Gates @ Classic Grand
Described – quite rightly – as a mixture of West Side Story and Cabaret, The Gates is Rachel Jury’s musical based on the controversial bar ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013
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Cured @ The Arches
Stef Smith’s latest play tackles the idea of conversion therapy. While very prominent in the US at one point in time, the 'ex-gay' movement has never s... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play, Pie and a Pint: The Deficit Show @ Oran Mor
If OTT were running for parliament, they would win my vote. Perfectly pitched in tone and note, their new production The Deficit Show is both enter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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True West @ Citizens Theatre
Domestic in content it may be but Sam Shepard’s emotionally charged tale about an American family is the stuff of epics. A modern Greek trag... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Tailor of Inverness @ Tron
The Tailor of Inverness is the true story of writer and performer Matthew Zajac's father – firstly, with Matthew playing his father telling his own tal... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
Opinion
Burlesque: Subversive or not?
Is Burlesque still subversive? Or is it just porn for middle class people? Our Theatre Editor gets his dictionary out for the crowd Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
Summerhall: Winter Season
In the last year, Edinburgh's Summerhall has come into its own, creating a hub where the worlds of art, theatre, tech and eh brewing can collide. Its winter programme offers an array of theatrical darkness, a refreshing alternative to the impending panto Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
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The Jazz Club Murder @ Oran Mor
The sweet sound of the trumpet fills the air as a good old fashioned 'whodunnit' takes to the Òran Mór stage in James Runcie’s The J... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
ShowsForced Entertainment @ Tramway
Forced Entertainment's two performances in Glasgow probe into completely different themes and remarkably contrasting styles of performance. The Coming... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
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Zhe (Noun) Undefined @ Contact, Manchester
Zhe contains some of the bravest performances this writer has ever seen. Set against a plain black stage with a few arranged, miscellaneous wooden props, Ant... Read more »| 30 Oct 2013