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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ShowsOne More For The Road
Lucille Burn steps out from the fan dances and feathers to salute the heart-broken with her first solo show Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Shows
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 -
ShowsKill Your Timid Notion
For years, Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, creative directors of the Arika organisation, have been asked whether their festivals are “experimental mus... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
ShowsWhat 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 -
Shows
Glas(s) Act
Glas(s) introduce us to that rare beast - a married couple... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Clearing up the Clutter: Birds of Pardise
Davey Andeson/, author of Birds of Paradise's latest production Clutter Keeps Company is clear about what makes the company stand out. With the show hitting Tramway next week, he unravels some of the secrets behind the chaos Read more »| 14 Feb 2010
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La Bohème Preview
It took me a while to appreciate opera. Completely lacking the necessary aesthetic sophistication, or historical knowledge that it seems to demand, I expected it to be too abstract, too formal, to really engage my tastes. Even the modern interpretations, which insist on updating the action or underplaying the glamour had aftertaste of desperation: was an Italian opera set in a television studio anything more than a cheap gimmick? Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
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Absent Friends
Oldham Coliseum has produced another high quality production Read more »| 09 Feb 2010 -
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Back to the Beat
Iain Softley knew that Backbeat would make for great live theatre long before his original film was complete. Read more »| 07 Feb 2010 -
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Flatties
Flatrate theatre group have been entertaining Glasgow audiences with one aim: “to work harder, faster and more intelligently than any other company out there.” Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Alan Bissett @ Citizens Theatre, 9-13 Feb
A self-confessed ‘sensitive extrovert’, literary chameleon Alan Bissett is taking to the stage for a double feature of his play, The Ching Room, and spoken word ‘one woman show’, The Moira Monologues. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
The Process is the Product
Where does the essence of performance hide? Is it in the end product, or is it tucked away inside daily life and the way that that product is developed? Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Shows
Chinese State Circus
The Chinese State Circus have moved from their habitual big top and into the theatre. Read more »| 23 Jan 2010 -
Venue Of The Month
Save the Big Red Door
Edinburgh needs venues: The Big Red Door needs to be rescued. What is going on around the corner from one of Edinburgh's most notorious triangles? Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Shows
A Wee Home from Home
A pleasure from the past explains by omission how Glasgow has grown. Read more »| 07 Jan 2010