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
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 -
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Dance and Physical Theatre
in a Fringe that has been criticised for high prices and a lacklustre selection, which of these venues can claim to be 2007's definitive dance centre? Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Venus As A Boy
Tragic, shocking and even humorous at times, this is a beguiling contemporary imagining of the modern messiah Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Peer pressure
Outgoing Dundee Rep Artistic Director Dominic Hill has chosen Ibsen's Peer Gynt as his finale. Hugo Fluendy talks to him about exits, excitement and expectations Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Doll's House
the concept of this statuesque Norah, played by Maude Mitchell tripping over these literally little men in her life, cramped into a diminutive set built to their scale, is an idea approaching that overused term genius Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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The Psychic Detective (and those disappeared)
Benchtours invigorate their productions with a strong sense of the avant-garde, challenging traditional conceptions of the medium Read more »| 09 Aug 2007