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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Festivals
Free Dissociation
Leading playwright Anthony Neilson talks to the Skinny about form, fantasy, and fun Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Opinion
A magnetic tape - Daniel Kitson's C-90
This is Raymond Carver presented as stand-up; this is an indie comic book in human form.
AND/OR
The narrative follows Kitson as Henry, on the last day of his job working at a repository for old and discarded compilation tapes. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Dick McWhittington
Port Seton is a dark place, no bus goes and English is rarely spoken Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Too smug and superficial to hold anyone's attention longer than a short stretch of dialogue Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Pinocchio, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh (paper version)
Robert Hopkin's set – a tribute to Spanish proto-surrealist De Chirico's stark village squares with inky black archways - was a nicely atmospheric start... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Pinocchio, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh (web version)
The Lyceum puts on a good show, puts on a good show. Robert Hopkin's set – a tribute to Spanish proto-surrealist De Chirico's stark village squares with... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Shows
All My Sons
Action and humanity, suffering and its causes: these are the intensely dramatic themes in All My Sons, a family drama set against the backdrop of World War I... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Madama Butterfly
another timelessly enduring piece of opera Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Interviews
Dance and Physical Theatre Previews: Forced Entertainment
Would be as well in a Daily Mail editorial as a supposedly radical theatrical event Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Shows
Theatre Workshop Ticket Giveaway
it will unlock the inner child in the most Scrooge-like of theatre-goers Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Interviews
T'is the season afterall
Festive theatre gives those of us longer in tooth an opportunity to revisit the places from which our imagination was born. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Shows
Heroes
The hearts of a packed theatre go out to the three old codgers Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Shows
Traverse Cubed3 (DESIGNER NOTE: '3' in superscript please)
Eerie, comic, challenging Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Shows
Mary Stuart @ Royal Lyceum
Catherine Cusack fully convinces, here, in the title role àfull of anger, liveliness and passion. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Shows
Frozen Theatre Preview
it manages to take an acceptably sensitive perspective on a nasty subject that would otherwise be difficult to watch Read more »| 12 Dec 2006