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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ShowsRent @ Church Hill Theatre
Everybody needs help... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Shows
Pandas
With a script by one of Scotland's busiest playwrights, Pandas is a comic thriller that reaches from Edinburgh to China. Three couples get tangled up in stolen Chinese rugs, broken hearts and murder in a genre-defying adventure into the underground of lust and crime.Director Rebecca Gatward explains all Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Venue Of The Month
Theatre Venue of the Month: The Arches
Perhaps thanks to the credit crunch, Glasgow's performance landscape is shifting. The Arches usually begins its push for Behaviour around this time - the annual jamboree of international experimental work. Yet this year, it has focused on local, emerging artists, leaving May free for the Tron's festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
ShowsOvid's Metamorphoses @ Tron
It's wonderful to see a group of people who are not only willing, but who are actually able to completely disregard the limitations of genre: performers who ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
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Mother Courage @ The Tron
In a time when the arts are under threat, and political unrest is both fashionable and necessary, Birds of Paradise intelligently revive Brecht's celebrated ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2011 -
ShowsMidsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most read, most performed and most studied plays. It is one of only two Shakespeare plays to co... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011
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Interviews
Scottish Ballet's Alice
Scottish Ballet go through the looking glass to Lewis Carroll's mysterious world Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
ShowsThe Hard Man @ King's Theatre
Scotland’s tradition of groundbreaking literary experimentation suffered a great loss with the recent death of Tom McGrath. He is best known for his p... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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Cinematic Space
It's film, but not as we know it Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
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Sol Pico and Stories Left to Tell
New Territories has retained its power to surprise and enchant: the final two shows, both at Tramway, showcased the festival’s continued enthus... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
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Onde de Choc
Big sounds, little substance Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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Hari Kari @ Tramway
Compagnie Didier Theron are contemporary ballet. There’s a wanton joy in stating this, a wilful desire to provoke an argument. It’s probably jus... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
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Lord of the Flies @ Theatre Royal
Never a company to play safe, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures once again prove themselves to be at the forefront of narrative dance Read more »| 21 Mar 2011 -
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From the Lilipad @ Art's Complex
On 27 March Edinburgh-based Tightlaced Theatre will present its new production, From the Lilipad, as part of their New Talent programme. Founded in 2008 by ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2011 -
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Liquid Loft @ Tramway
Fifty five minutes. Six boobs. One cock. Four stars. Read more »| 14 Mar 2011