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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Opinion
A Theatre Critic's View: Escaping State Funding
Arts funding is under attack: is there an alternative way to get performance on the stage? Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Shows
Chouf Ouchouf @ Macrobert
Traditional dance and acrobatics are increasingly under threat. Every year, another company rolls up at the Fringe, with a spectacular show, based on a natio... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011 -
Shows
Blackout
Ready for something intense? Lights out, lets go. James, fifteen, wakes up in a jail cell charged with attempted murder. He has no recollection of wh... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Confusion Is Sex: The Two Year Itch
For the past two years, Gamma Ray Dali has been evolving Confusion is Sex as more than just another dance club: her active interest in performance, visual art and capturing a unique atmosphere has seen her incorporate influences from the worlds of fashion, Live Art, burlesque and gigs. As April's second birthday party approaches, The Skinny decided it was time to have a word with her Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Chouf Ouchouf: A Taste of the Medina
The Skinny talks to Crying Out Loud's Artistic Director Rachel Clare about Moroccan acrobatics ahead of their nationwide tour of Chouf Ouchouf Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Shows
Rent @ Church Hill Theatre
Everybody needs help... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011
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Shows
Pandas
With a script by one of Scotland's busiest playwrights, Pandas is a comic thriller that reaches from Edinburgh to China. Three couples get tangled up in stolen Chinese rugs, broken hearts and murder in a genre-defying adventure into the underground of lust and crime.Director Rebecca Gatward explains all Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Venue Of The Month
Theatre Venue of the Month: The Arches
Perhaps thanks to the credit crunch, Glasgow's performance landscape is shifting. The Arches usually begins its push for Behaviour around this time - the annual jamboree of international experimental work. Yet this year, it has focused on local, emerging artists, leaving May free for the Tron's festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Shows
Ovid's Metamorphoses @ Tron
It's wonderful to see a group of people who are not only willing, but who are actually able to completely disregard the limitations of genre: performers who ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
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Mother Courage @ The Tron
In a time when the arts are under threat, and political unrest is both fashionable and necessary, Birds of Paradise intelligently revive Brecht's celebrated ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2011 -
Shows
Midsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most read, most performed and most studied plays. It is one of only two Shakespeare plays to co... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Scottish Ballet's Alice
Scottish Ballet go through the looking glass to Lewis Carroll's mysterious world Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Shows
The Hard Man @ King's Theatre
Scotland’s tradition of groundbreaking literary experimentation suffered a great loss with the recent death of Tom McGrath. He is best known for his p... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Shows
Cinematic Space
It's film, but not as we know it Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Shows
Sol Pico and Stories Left to Tell
New Territories has retained its power to surprise and enchant: the final two shows, both at Tramway, showcased the festival’s continued enthus... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011