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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FestivalsPants on Fire's Pinocchio @ Pleasance Dome
Pants on Fire Theatre have built a reputation over the last few years at the Fringe for highly imaginative re-inventions of classic texts. This year’s ... Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
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First Thought, Best Thought: A Look at Write Now Festival
Combining six brand new one-act plays, workshops and script-in-hand readings, Liverpool's Write Now Festival lays bare the writing and rehearsal process, as Ian Moore explains Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsThreeway @ Pleasance Courtyard
Threeway is exactly what you would imagine on first hearing the title. A young Scottish couple from the Highlands who moved to Glasgow for new experiences de... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsConversations Not Fit For The American Dinner Table @ Bedlam Theatre
Call me a sucker for political satire (and, let's face it, satire that ties into my own views) but upon reading that playwright Sol Max of Conversations Not ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
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If these spasms could speak @ Pleasance
Robert Softley's play If these spasms could speak tells the story of day-to-day life for people with disabilities through their eyes. It explores the di... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Brand New Ancients @ The Traverse
Everyday Epics Read more »| 02 Sep 2013
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The Road to Qatar @ C too
The Road to Qatar, a musical about a couple of New York Jews who write musical comedy being whisked away to the Middle East to write a show for some overbear... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Dunsinane on Tour
The National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company are bringing back David Greig’s incredibly compelling, thought provoking, Scottish p... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Dance Derby @ Paterson's Land
This dance/jazz/theatre show is both an enjoyable and uncomfortable experience, as it explores how far we are willing to go. Based on the American dance ma... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsCape Wrath @ Northern Stage at St Stephen's
This charming, totally involving show, performed to an audience of sixteen, in a cosy mini-bus, takes you on an imaginary journey to Cape Wrath, the top lef... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Garden @ Paterson's Land
The intimate space of Paterson's Land is perfect for this exquisite mini-opera, first performed at Aberdeen's Sound Festival, by the husband and wife team, ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Metamorphosis @ The Merchant’s Hall
Gregor is a lithium addict. Her life is a little routine to her, to put it mildly, in fact is seems unbearably so as she moves increasingly mechanically, lik... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Phantom of the Fringe @ The Merchants' Hall
"You are blind" the Phantom booms. And I am a little, after having a torchlight shone into my eyes during a little-too-drawn-out introduction. As slow begin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
FestivalsCiara @ Traverse
In Ciara, his love song to Glasgow, playwright David Harrower has created a complex character worthy of the city and a play whose ending packs a punch. ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
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Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard's Castle: Oper Frankfurt @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
This is a daring, hugely inventive and emotionally affecting double-bill, conducted by Constantinos Carydis and directed by Barrie Kosky: two short operas 2... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013