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
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