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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Enemy lines
While some may believe that changing a play's geographical and cultural location doesn't always preserve its meaning, the success of Tara Arts since the 1970s has done nothing but prove otherwise. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Puppet Lab
The puppets are beautifully made and manipulated, but the recorded voiceover detracts from their lifelike movements Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Follow Closely
Forget deconstructing the fourth wall - promenading, site-specific theatre gets bums out of seats and traipsing round the streets in and amongst the actors. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Faust parts 1&2
Forget the genteel lyricism of Wordsworth and Keats, this Romantic epic has always been a chilling portrayal of human depravity and is here given the added discomfort of a 21st century frame of reference. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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The Memorandum
Human moments stand out - but not enough to make this production come fully alive Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Mamma Mia! Theatre Review
Mamma Mia!' is a big sparkly musical based on ABBA's sunny, multi-layered pop tracks. The story of four popular Swedish musicians becoming a supergroup is equally big, sparkly and sunny, right up until the climax - but there's no happy ending. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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See How They Run
A charming comedy of manners, mistaken identity and ""ooh, vicar!"" licentiousness Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Gorgeous Avatar (New Version)
Gorgeous Avatar defines 'Scottish culture' as something modern and dynamic. Playwright Jules Horne talks about stylistic innovation in the Borders. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Princess Ida
Princess Ida' is typical Gilbert and Sullivan fare, but Edinburgh University's Savoy Opera Group do a very respectable job of trying to make it watchable. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Grease
This production is loud, ostentatious and over the top - exactly as Grease should be. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
(not sure about star rating yet, Marcie is getting back to me) Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Leningrad Siege
A clever piece of entertainment - the friends are sensitively and humourously written, translated and acted. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Conversations in Havana
From the first piercing image of Che (Gerald Kyd) sitting in an army jacket coughing, smoking and downing mugs of something clear, lethal and probably Cuban,... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Blood Wedding
Spain is never far away in the imagination Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Hollow
Agatha Christie's play The Hollow is a classic whodunit - a man finds himself trapped in a house with his wife, his mistress and a bitter ex-mistress. But few are aware that her own history was the stuff of her novels and plays, including a difficult marriage and a mysterious disappearance. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006