THEATRE REVIEW: Dracula
2018-10-31
Bonkers. Utterly bonkers. But entertainingly so. Cheryl Campbell’s wildly eccentric Lady Renfield doesn’t care for pale people. Neither, it wouldContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Unreturning
2018-10-25
No man is an island, wrote the cleric poet Donne. An assertion which the characters in Anna Jordan’s intense andContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Macbeth
2018-10-24
There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Or to use the imagery of Shakespeare, scorch a snake.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Macbeths
2018-10-17
Condensing the text to a taut and muscular 70 minutes, and focusing solely on the titular Macbeths, both of whomContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Manpower
2018-10-03
After running for two years, Man Power has most likely never been more relevant than right at this very moment.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Rain Man
2018-10-03
Bill Kenwright is chairman of Everton Football Club whose motto “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum” means “Nothing but the best is good enough”.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Calendar Girls
2018-10-03
Browsing the programme notes of Calendar Girls (formerly The Girls) – which is based on the 2003 film of theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Shrek the Musical
2018-09-27
With a plot line involving a diminutive dictator banishing quirky “freaks” to a swamp in the woods in order toContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Still Alice
2018-09-26
According to the gospel of Dorothy, there’s no place like home. But if like Harvard University professor of linguistics AliceContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: McLuckie’s Line
2018-09-24
Martin Docherty is an engaging performer: he rattles through the text like a thunderous thoroughbred, vaulting the towering fences ofContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Scotties
2018-09-15
“If you pull it out by the root, it won’t grow back.” The fate of the humble seaweed if pluckedContinue Reading
COMEDY REVIEW: The House
2018-08-13
Its true buying or selling a house can be a stressful time for anyone. But the Redmonds and the FishersContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Frank Carson: If I Didn’t Laugh I’d Cry
2018-08-08
With a stage the size of a postage stamp, the Baillie Room on The Mound is a perfect fit forContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: A Joke
2018-08-08
To paraphrase the debonair Denis Norden: it’ll be all-white on the night. At least it is for the Scotsman, EnglishmanContinue Reading