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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Interviews
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair tweaks the traditional 'boy meets girl' scenario into girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, and another boy... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Shows
Testing the Echo @ Traverse
the widening gap between governmental legislation and everyday life.
Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Ghost in the Machine
When a young widow begins to hear messages emerging from the crackle and hiss of a compilation tape she becomes convinced her husband is communicating from beyond the grave. Grief can do strange things to the human psyche but music is a powerful communicator as Suspect Culture Artistic Director Graham Eatough explains to Hugo Fluendy Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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The Glass Menagerie
The play is set in 1930s America but it's very accessible àdysfunctional families are always recognisable Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty.....I'd rather be Little Red Riding Hood
Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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NRLA 2009
SF: Not one but two thought-provoking arts festivals visit the Tramway in quick succession this month. The Skinny meets the people behind this hive of activity and finds out what it's all about
PQ: ""The image I always use when people ask me what the hell it is all about is of a great big swimming pool. Just jump in and splash around"" - Ian Smith Read more »| 05 Feb 2008
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Horse's mouth
The revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus had London critics in transports of delight. The Skinny's Adam McCully talks to the man himself, lead actor and national institution Simon Callow, to see what all the fuss is about Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty.....I'd rather be Little Red Riding Hood
Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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CHAPTER AND TRAVERSE
SF:
Scotland's new writing theatre has a new artistic director. Although it's too soon for Dominic Hill to have made an impact, the first full season under his charge will be the most keenly watched in more than a decade. Traverse Associate Producer Laura Collier lays out the full Traverse Spring Season 2008 exclusively for The Skinny
PQ:
if there's one thing that binds this very diverse programme together into a cohesive whole, it's these little connections that make up a sort of extended Traverse family Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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SHADOWPLAY
This month's puppetry festival Manipulate at Dundee Rep relocates the marionettes art into an adult, more shadowy realm of exitential terror and nightmarish otherness. Gareth K. Vile meets the man pulling the strings. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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It's A Wonderful Life
As much as The Skinny really wants to unequivocally like this show, there are things that just don't work. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Shows
Goldilocks
The ritualised call and response of the whole pantomime form lends itself with chilling precision to the inculcation of values. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Molly Sweeney
Celebrates a deep vivacity even in the final moments of encroaching darkness. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A Normal Heart
Unsophisticated yet heartfelt. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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2007 (pt 1)
That's the thing about hindsight and end of year lists too: you don't know what you're missing until aux escaliers your rusting critical apparatus crunches a... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007