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....
Review: SISTER ACT, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - May 01, 2024
This divine revival of the iconic movie follows nightclub singer Deloris van Cartier (Landi Oshinowo), whose life takes an unlikely turn after she witnesses a mobster murder. Seeking refuge in a holy convent, she poses as a nun revamping the sisters' struggling choir... despite protests from the aus...
Review: BRIDEZILLA AND THE ORCHARD OF SIN, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 27, 2024
‘Bridezilla’ Amber and her fiancé Gary are desperate to find the perfect venue for her their upcoming wedding when the peculiar Lady V offers up her seemingly ideal estate....
Review: RAGE ROOM, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 27, 2024
In a world where quiet facts are repeatedly drowned out by loud opinions and with calamity around every corner, do we rock paper scissors for not just the right to be heard, but the right to survive?...