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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ShowsSonica 2013 @ Various Venues, Glasgow
Sonica, the festival of sonic art produced by Cryptic, returns to Glasgow for yet another year. The programme, while based primarily on the concept of sound ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2013 -
ShowsIn Doggerland @ The Lowry, Salford
In Doggerland is a story of family, grief and human nature. More specifically, it’s the story of what happens when siblings Linus and Marnie turn up in... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
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Best of BE Festival @ The Lowry, Salford
BE Festival (Birmingham-Europe, Birmingham’s annual international theatre festival) is a celebration of theatre that crosses borders. Not only cultural... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
ShowsTomorrow's Parties @ Contact, Manchester
The future always looms ahead of us and is always uncertain. Predicting and analysing the future has been a preoccupation for, amongst others, writers, polit... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
ShowsCasual Violence's The House of Nostril @ The Lowry, Salford
Casual Violence storm onto The Lowry stage with a bizarre and delightful Halloween spectacular Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
ShowsFirearms and Fingertips @ Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester, 27-30 Nov
Spencer has been shot. He’s lying in a hospital bed, in an operating room. Doctors are swarming all around him, and his mother is waiting desperately a... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013
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The Lion King @ The Edinburgh Playhouse
Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Doras Dùinte (Closed Door) @ Òran Mór
The ever changing power balance between the leads makes for interesting viewing in Catrìona Lexy Chaimbeul’s new play Doras Dùinte, ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Grave Undertaking @ Òran Mór
Fire and pyre make a good rhyming pair but Paddy Cunneen’s Grave Undertaking also includes a singing corpse who rhymes pride with formaldehyd... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play Pie and a Pint: Saint One @ Oran Mor
It’s an unbeatable premise. One of Scotland’s favourite actresses takes on the Big Yin himself. Oh and it’s set in a ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Gates @ Classic Grand
Described – quite rightly – as a mixture of West Side Story and Cabaret, The Gates is Rachel Jury’s musical based on the controversial bar ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Cured @ The Arches
Stef Smith’s latest play tackles the idea of conversion therapy. While very prominent in the US at one point in time, the 'ex-gay' movement has never s... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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Play, Pie and a Pint: The Deficit Show @ Oran Mor
If OTT were running for parliament, they would win my vote. Perfectly pitched in tone and note, their new production The Deficit Show is both enter... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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True West @ Citizens Theatre
Domestic in content it may be but Sam Shepard’s emotionally charged tale about an American family is the stuff of epics. A modern Greek trag... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
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The Tailor of Inverness @ Tron
The Tailor of Inverness is the true story of writer and performer Matthew Zajac's father – firstly, with Matthew playing his father telling his own tal... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013