Review: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 22, 2024
Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world....
Review: ROOST, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 18, 2024
When social worker Hana has to deliberate upon Bingo’s case for the custody of his daughter, his unusual hobby as a ‘doo-man’ catches her off guard. Through him, she is flung back into the world of pigeon keeping....
Review: MACBETH (AN UNDOING), Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 15, 2024
When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he is to become King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing to make their darkest ambition a reality....
Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 14, 2024
Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the d...
Review: IRVINE WELSH'S PORNO, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - May 13, 2024
Porno lives up to its opening line: sequels are never as good as the original. Edinburgh's infamous pack of misfits (Renton, Bigbie, Sick Boy and Spud) reunite ten years after their appearances in the award-winning Trainspotting. They're all grown up, and surpisingly still alive....
Review: MAGGIE & ME, Tron Theatre
by Mary Baillie - May 13, 2024
Ten years after his award-winning memoir, Damian Barr revisits his past onstage with the National Theatre of Scotland in Maggie & Me. This brave piece recounts growing up gay in the straight world of Margaret Thatcher's working class Britain... among the Ravenscraig steelworks of Motherwell. Barr ex...
Review: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, Perth Theatre
by Mary Baillie - May 07, 2024
Cross-dressing, guns, psychiatry, politics, incest, adultery and accidental overdoses interlace in Joe Orton's final and most subversive play. Unfortunately to a modern audience it feels dated....
Review: LEWIS CAPALDI GOES TROPICAL, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 04, 2024
A surreal chaotic comedy following a misfit family from Glasgow’s fringes as they prepare a party to say farewell to a beloved black-market animal....