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 Colour Ham @ Just the Tonic
The Colour Ham does something new with the sketch show and an unpredictable mixture of illusion, mind-reading and comedy is fun, fresh and very, very silly.... Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsScotland vs Poland on the Edinburgh Fringe
Poland versus Scotland: it might lack the clarity of a sporting contest, but theatre does bring out the national identity Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
FestivalsTatyana @ Edinburgh Playhouse
In Tatyana, Deborah Colker's reimagination of Puskin's Eugene Onegin – famously made into a classical romantic ballet – the opposing stereotypes ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
Timeless & Uncharted Seas @ Royal Lyceum Theatre
Although Aditi Mangalas' choreography and company are based on the ancient Indian form of Kathak, her double bill at the EIF is determinedly a contemporary w... Read more »| 31 Jul 2012 -
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Ménage a Trois and The Olympics of the Everyday
Glasgow speaks to the world, too Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
Miriam Margoyles: A National Treasure
More than two decades after its Edinburgh Festival debut, Miriam Margolyes returns to Scotland with one-woman show Dickens' Women Read more »| 30 Jul 2012
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Shows
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show – Live! @ The Theatre Royal
We hit the Theatre Royal in dressing gowns, towels slung over arm, receiving knowing glances and smiles from fellow enthusiasts as we approach... Read more »| 06 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
Surge Festival 2012
Surge Festival comes to Glasgow, celebrating the myriad forms of physical theatre with a selection of installations, performances and events to amaze and astound. Let's get physical! Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
ShowsZippo's Circus presents Gold
Roll up, roll up... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 3D
This ravishing production from Sadler’s Wells in London is at once contemporary and utterly timeless. Bourne’s re-telling of the classic ballet h... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Beckett Double Bill @ The Citizens Theatre
Everything about Dominic Hill’s re-staging of Krapp’s Last Tape is bigger - the bleak comedy, the gesticulations and sighs, even the leading man.... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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27 @ The Citizens Theatre
American Epidemiologist Dr Richard Garfield (Patrick Drury) and his team travel to the West of Scotland to persuade the residents of a convent to participate... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Ann Boleyn @ EFT
On a pristine, beautifully lit stage, a barefoot, ghostly Anne Boleyn makes her entrance. In classical RSC style she addresses the audience, challenging them... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Tosca @ Theatre Royal
Sex and death, politics and religion - opera is well suited to the big themes, and Giacomo Puccini was better suited than most to his chosen medium. Tosca re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
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Motherland @ The Arches
Nic Green has forged a strong reputation for herself on the back of Trilogy, her critically acclaimed feminist meditation from 2009 - now comes Motherland. F... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012