THEATRE REVIEW: Really Want To Hurt Me
2018-08-07
The year is 1984. And the world of a nameless fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Exeter is as nightmarish as that imaginedContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Kiss Me, Kate
2018-07-05
“A dicka dick.” No, not the randy ramblings of a Grindr bear, but a tongue-in-cheek lyric from Cole Porter’s doubleContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Titanic
2018-06-13
As composer and lyricist Maury Yeston wrote in the programme notes for Titanic, the Tony Award-winning musical he penned withContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Love From A Stranger
2018-06-07
The tone of Frank Vosper’s entertaining reworking of Agatha Christie’s stage adaptation of her short story Philomel Cottage is establishedContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Baba Yaga
2018-05-29
Baba Yaga. No, not a drunken request for a taxi, but a mythical Russian witch who legend has it swingsContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain
2018-05-29
Breaking news from the first plummy-voiced radio transmissions of 1922: James Watson, son of the rugby-playing soldier-turned-medic Doctor Watson (TimothyContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Stick By Me
2018-05-28
In the oasis of calm that is the community garden of North Edinburgh Arts, a swarm of busy bees areContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Gut at the Traverse
2018-04-30
I feel as though a door has been opened in my head and I don’t know how to close it.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Margaret Saves Scotland
2018-04-26
A fine wee lass, a bonnie wee lass, a bonnie wee Margaret Holt (Tori Burgess) has a dream. Not soContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: War Horse
2018-04-19
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Alas, the same can’t be said aboutContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
2018-04-12
No swirl of fog which thins into a clearing. No subtle shift of lighting from dusk to dawn. But theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Grandad and Me
2018-04-11
Jings, crivens and help mah boab! Thurz a moose loose in her papa’s hoose! But is his granddaughter (dancer RuthContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Little Light
2018-04-11
And on the first day, God said, “Let there be light.” And being an industrious chap, there was light. AsContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: This House
2018-04-11
On the same day that “Big Bad John” Bercow received a round of applause in the House of Commons forContinue Reading