Scotland

The Haunting of Hill House – Lyceum Theatre

There is something particularly appropriate about staging a haunted house story within the magnificent Victorian architecture of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum…

2 days ago

Operation Mincemeat – King’s Theatre

Bearing in mind the gravity of the situation that called for this outrageous 1943 wartime deception operation, not to mention…

1 week ago

Nosferatu: Suitcase Stories – The Eastgate Theatre

“Small is beautiful,” according to economist E F Schumacher, and indeed the inside of a traditional suitcase can be a…

2 weeks ago

Duck Pond – Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Thrilling. Breathtaking. Magical. Single words formed mentally in a gasp of disbelief. Words alone are inadequate to describe the hair-raising…

2 weeks ago

1984 – Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

I first read 1984 in a philosophy class at high school. Back then I remember thinking how dystopian it was,…

2 weeks ago

Rollers Forever – King’s Theatre

The Bay City Rollers were a 1970s phenomenon hailing from Edinburgh. They had huge popularity with their catchy tunes, and…

2 weeks ago

Bottom’s Dream – Traverse Theatre

Martin O’Connor, that champion of youth theatre and new Scots writing, creates an absorbing, modern-day monologue as William Shakespeare’s mechanical,…

3 weeks ago

Concerned Others – The Eastgate Theatre, Peebles

Concerned Others is an installation-style docu-drama, utilising live art, tiny models, puppetry, masks and even a treadmill to convey the…

4 weeks ago

A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Contact by Jonny Donahoe – Traverse Theatre

Contact is an hour-long exploration of unresolved pain, blame and a yearning for love amid the messy realities of today’s…

4 weeks ago

Sylvia – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

This is some show! Having watched Jersey Boys at the Edinburgh Playhouse the previous evening, I thought I had witnessed musical theatre…

1 month ago