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
2007 (pt2)
I thought Peer Gynt was an absolutely fantastic production of what's considered to be a difficult play. It just shows what we can do: Dominic Hill wanted to ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Endgame
Director Robert Rae's staging ultimately fails to deliver Beckett's absurdist punchlines, preferring instead to wallow in the shallows of the text's unrelenting misery. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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A Soldier's Tale
Inspired direction, refreshingly innovative lighting design, excellent spatial development and a happily disconcerting Surrealist film compliment Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Tamburlaine Must Die
lazy from conception through to execution-an insipid and staid interpretation of a brutally poetic novel Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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They Make These Noises
Kelman seduces with florid language and awkward humour Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Sleeping Beauty
A Christmas treat for balletomanes and schoolchildren, informed by Balanchine, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gothic fashion and the decline of European royal families. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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GIVING IT THE (GREEN) FINGER: Is gardening the new rock and roll? Hugo Fluendy speaks to the writer of new drama Flight Path with a new take on teenage rebellion
He finds happiness through gardening underneath the flight path at Heathrow Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Tramway
an internationally acclaimed venue, supporting local artists and the radical edge of theatre Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Game Theory, Tramway, 4 Sept
Through the versatility of the actors - and some sharp writing - a fierce intensity is maintained for ninety minutes Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Mabou Mines Doll's House
a school reading list staple stir fried and served up as naked lunch Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Carmen
a comfortable watercolour experience Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
more bravado than balls, more instinct than intelligence Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
InterviewsJames Kelman Season at The Arches
the meaning of life, if you like Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Siren by Ray Lee / Invisible Forces
should inspire confidence and sustainability into the unfairly questionable future of New Music and conceptual performance art Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Macbeth (Who Is That Bloodied Man)
Macbeth on a bouncy castle any one Read more »| 08 Sep 2007