Tag: Scottish theatre
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How do musicals symbolize our national identity?
Tuesday 2nd July 2024
blogGrace Barnes’s excellent new book is both provocative and illuminating
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Mary, Hampstead Theatre
Monday 31st October 2022
reviewRona Munro’s latest addition to her epic study of Scottish history is a compelli…
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Losing Venice, Orange Tree Theatre
Thursday 20th September 2018
reviewRemarkable rediscovery by this ever-enterprising venue is a well-crafted and ele…
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Diary of a Madman
Thursday 15th September 2016
blogFavourite stage direction: “Mavra cradles him.”
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Diary of a Madman, Gate Theatre
Tuesday 6th September 2016
reviewScottish Gogol adaptation is a thrillingly contemporary account of damaged mascu…
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre
Wednesday 10th August 2016
reviewSheer joy and excitement as Lee (‘Billy Elliot’) Hall adapts book about six conv…
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When We Were Women, Orange Tree Theatre
Thursday 1st October 2015
reviewWonderful revival of Sharman Macdonald’s excellent 1988 play about love, death a…
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Trainspotting, King’s Head Theatre
Saturday 21st March 2015
reviewClassic of 1990s in-yer-face theatre revived in an energetic if messy immersive …
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Men Should Weep, National Theatre
Wednesday 17th November 2010
reviewScottish classic gets an overblown and super lavish production that lacks realit…
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