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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ShowsThe House of Bernarda Alba
An East End gangster's wife echoes the passions of small town Spain in this NTS update. Read more »| 20 Sep 2009 -
InterviewsThe Red Room
After a successful run at The Traverse during the Fringe, David Hughes is taking his Red Room on the road during September and October. A fiendish adaptation of Edgar Alan Poe’s Mask of the Red Death, it sees Hughes’ dance company team up with Al Seed, a Skinny favourite for his frightening version of clowning and a leading Live Art light. Gareth K Vile caught up with both Hughes and Seed, and asked them about the collaboration. Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
ShowsBig Gay Musical
Little Johhny: not just for gays Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Festivals
Scala: Why Are You Looking?
A descent into madness, via European theatre company Ponies Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
ShowsLong Gone Lonesome
He came from a time before electricity, played at home and never toured. Meet a hero of country music: Thomas Fraser. Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Shows
Abigail's Party
Can seventies social satire be redeemed in our post-computer age? The Patter Merchants say yes - as long as it is funny. Read more »| 10 Sep 2009
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Interviews
Iago
The villain gets to say his piece. Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
Shows
Alternatives
Cabaret goes beyond the quick thrill of burlesque and shakes hands with new music Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
Shows
Scottish Ballet
Something old, something borrowed, something new: Scottish Ballet creates a marriage that is sometimes in heaven. Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
Shows
A Faustian Diaspora
The International Festival provides great shows in form, but what about the content? Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Festivals
Up Yours!
A Scottish company get serious about the modern supermarket of identity. Read more »| 05 Sep 2009 -
FestivalsKursk Review
A sentimental journey beneath the waves fails to surface. Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Festivals
Up
Urban myths and psychological torment are at the centre of James Ley's new one-man play as ex-teacher Robert (Laurie Brown), confined to a tiny room in a san... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
Only Beggars Will Understand
The Future Past: Vanishing Point Theatre Company drags John Gay's 18th Century satire The Beggar's Opera kicking and screaming into the 22nd Century Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Festivals
Little Johnny's Big Gay Musical
Well, you can't say you've not been warned: Little Johnny's Big Gay Musical is pretty damn gay. Told through original songs as well as snippets of famous mus... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009