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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Shows
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 -
Interviews
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 -
Interviews
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 -
Interviews
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The story of the murderous barber who dumps bodies in a shared cellar, the baker next door and her strangely delicious pies, is a deliciously scary old wives' tale, but it turns out it's a true story and the perfect subject for a different type of musical. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Trainspotting
Harry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's celebrated novel, currently on its tenth anniversary tour, is a little hard to adjust to: it necessarily leaves o... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Get Carter
Up-front and uncompromising. Misogyny, corruption and violence hang round Carter like a cloud. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Festivals
The National Review of Live Art
It is a brave soul that dares to shout "you're naked," at an emperor convinced he's clad in the most exquisite finery known to man. At points throughout The ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Interviews
Staging Justice: Karen Torley speaks on Johnny Brown's "A Letter from Death Row"
Theatre is a powerful instrument: a play can move and enrage its audience, reveal hidden truths, inform and counter-inform. Think about Dario Fo's political ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006