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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ShowsDancin' across the Country
Both Ballet West and Curious Seed, who are touring this month, are reminders of dance's versality. Ballet West are staging the romantic classic, Swan Lake, w... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
ShowsBetrothal at a Monastery @ The Theatre Royal
It’s not the most original story for a comic opera: Louisa is a young lady who trades identity with her chaperone so she can marry the poor man whom sh... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
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Venue of the Month: Edinburgh Festival Theatre
The flagship Edinburgh venue for high art embraces diversity Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
ShowsThe Shoogle Project
Step in time, out of time - just dance! Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
FestivalsBe Manipulated
As Manipulate Festival returns to Edinburgh with another innovative array of visual theatre and animation, we talk to programmer Simon Hart about what to expect Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
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Dance @ The Arches
Is this the future of Scottish dance? Read more »| 06 Jan 2012
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Festivals
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I @ The Festival Theatre
Upon entering the auditorium, the stage appears empty, except for a gong. With a resounding - almost ceremonial - ring of said gong, the overture begins. A b... Read more »| 01 Jan 2012 -
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Escape from the Pantosphere
Get ready for Christmas Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
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Spain @ Citizens
A sharp contrast to James Ley’s last Glasgay! entry – an urgent yet funny look at one teacher’s nervous breakdown – Spain takes... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011 -
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CH-CH CHANGES @ Citizens Theatre
In Bette Cavette, the brilliant sell-out show of 2010, Grant Smeaton, theatre’s own Swiss Army Knife, did not rely on easy caricature or impe... Read more »| 09 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Two From Glasgay! Edwin Morgan and a Strange Hunger
Glasgay! gets diverse: from cabaret through to poetic theatre Read more »| 08 Nov 2011 -
ShowsMiranda @ Cottiers
After the physical theatre nightmare of The Red Shoes, a fringe entry which translated the classic film into the daily experience of a ballet dancer’s ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
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All the Fun of the Fair @ The Playhouse
Levi Lee owns a travelling fun fair. He’s middle-aged, a recent widower and, to add to his distress, he’s in a perpetual fight with his teenager ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Venue Of The Month
Theatre Venue of the Month: Macrobert
Here's to forty more years Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Interviews
The Cabaret Revival (Reprise)
It's Here, It's Queer, Get Used to It Read more »| 29 Sep 2011