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.
-
Shows
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty.....I'd rather be Little Red Riding Hood
Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
CHAPTER AND TRAVERSE
SF:
Scotland's new writing theatre has a new artistic director. Although it's too soon for Dominic Hill to have made an impact, the first full season under his charge will be the most keenly watched in more than a decade. Traverse Associate Producer Laura Collier lays out the full Traverse Spring Season 2008 exclusively for The Skinny
PQ:
if there's one thing that binds this very diverse programme together into a cohesive whole, it's these little connections that make up a sort of extended Traverse family Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
SHADOWPLAY
This month's puppetry festival Manipulate at Dundee Rep relocates the marionettes art into an adult, more shadowy realm of exitential terror and nightmarish otherness. Gareth K. Vile meets the man pulling the strings. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
It's A Wonderful Life
As much as The Skinny really wants to unequivocally like this show, there are things that just don't work. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Shows
Goldilocks
The ritualised call and response of the whole pantomime form lends itself with chilling precision to the inculcation of values. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Shows
Molly Sweeney
Celebrates a deep vivacity even in the final moments of encroaching darkness. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
-
Shows
A Normal Heart
Unsophisticated yet heartfelt. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
2007 (pt 1)
That's the thing about hindsight and end of year lists too: you don't know what you're missing until aux escaliers your rusting critical apparatus crunches a... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Interviews
2007 (pt2)
I thought Peer Gynt was an absolutely fantastic production of what's considered to be a difficult play. It just shows what we can do: Dominic Hill wanted to ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Shows
Endgame
Director Robert Rae's staging ultimately fails to deliver Beckett's absurdist punchlines, preferring instead to wallow in the shallows of the text's unrelenting misery. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Shows
A Soldier's Tale
Inspired direction, refreshingly innovative lighting design, excellent spatial development and a happily disconcerting Surrealist film compliment Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Shows
Tamburlaine Must Die
lazy from conception through to execution-an insipid and staid interpretation of a brutally poetic novel Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Shows
They Make These Noises
Kelman seduces with florid language and awkward humour Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Interviews
Sleeping Beauty
A Christmas treat for balletomanes and schoolchildren, informed by Balanchine, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gothic fashion and the decline of European royal families. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Interviews
GIVING IT THE (GREEN) FINGER: Is gardening the new rock and roll? Hugo Fluendy speaks to the writer of new drama Flight Path with a new take on teenage rebellion
He finds happiness through gardening underneath the flight path at Heathrow Read more »| 07 Nov 2007