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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FestivalsAn Hour Long Sinister Wink @ The Voodoo Rooms
Terror and Titters Read more »| 05 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsUnhappy Birthday @ Assembly 3
Last time Amy Lamé came to Scotand, she handed out ham sandwiches and pretended to be Mama Cass's adopted daughter. For the Fringe, her celebrity ambi... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Fringe 2012: Dance
This year's Festivals offer a plethora of innovative and challenging new takes on the artform of dance – we take a look at some of the most exciting shows on offer Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
ShowsThe Colour Ham @ Just the Tonic
The Colour Ham does something new with the sketch show and an unpredictable mixture of illusion, mind-reading and comedy is fun, fresh and very, very silly.... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Scotland vs Poland on the Edinburgh Fringe
Poland versus Scotland: it might lack the clarity of a sporting contest, but theatre does bring out the national identity Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
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Tatyana @ Edinburgh Playhouse
In Tatyana, Deborah Colker's reimagination of Puskin's Eugene Onegin – famously made into a classical romantic ballet – the opposing stereotypes ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012
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Timeless & Uncharted Seas @ Royal Lyceum Theatre
Although Aditi Mangalas' choreography and company are based on the ancient Indian form of Kathak, her double bill at the EIF is determinedly a contemporary w... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
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Ménage a Trois and The Olympics of the Everyday
Glasgow speaks to the world, too Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
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Miriam Margoyles: A National Treasure
More than two decades after its Edinburgh Festival debut, Miriam Margolyes returns to Scotland with one-woman show Dickens' Women Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show – Live! @ The Theatre Royal
We hit the Theatre Royal in dressing gowns, towels slung over arm, receiving knowing glances and smiles from fellow enthusiasts as we approach... Read more »| 06 Jul 2012 -
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Surge Festival 2012
Surge Festival comes to Glasgow, celebrating the myriad forms of physical theatre with a selection of installations, performances and events to amaze and astound. Let's get physical! Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
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Zippo's Circus presents Gold
Roll up, roll up... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
ShowsMatthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 3D
This ravishing production from Sadler’s Wells in London is at once contemporary and utterly timeless. Bourne’s re-telling of the classic ballet h... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Beckett Double Bill @ The Citizens Theatre
Everything about Dominic Hill’s re-staging of Krapp’s Last Tape is bigger - the bleak comedy, the gesticulations and sighs, even the leading man.... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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27 @ The Citizens Theatre
American Epidemiologist Dr Richard Garfield (Patrick Drury) and his team travel to the West of Scotland to persuade the residents of a convent to participate... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012