Performed and Written by Alys Williams Directed by Andrea Heaton Review by Dominic Corr The Traverse Theatre ★★★★ Hope is a fragile thing, but The Light House at The Traverse Theatre treats it with the kind of care usually reserved for rare glassware, holding it up to the light, turning it gently and letting its cracks become part of the beauty. … Continue reading Review: The Light House- The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Directed by Sophie Davis Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ There are certain groups you can always count on to deliver excellence. Edinburgh University Footlights is one of those rare few. There’s something uniquely thrilling about watching this group of performers assemble onstage with nothing but the barest scaffolding of a narrative and the promise of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh University Footlights Present Talk It Out- The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Just when you thought the news from Pitlochry Festival Theatre was about to halt; here they go rolling out another big hitter for Alan Cumming’s inaugural season — and this time it’s Beckett. The Theatre has announced that Siobhán Redmond (currently starring alongside Cumming, Forbes Masson in The National Theatre of Scotland’s The High Life … Continue reading Have a Gander at Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – Siobhán Redmond Digs Into Beckett’s Bleak Brilliance at Pitlochry
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is limbering up the ankles and clearing the floor, because this October the town’s in for a stoater. The UK première of CEILIDH, a new musical steeped in Scotland’s favourite communal chaos ritual, will take over Pitlochry Town Hall from 7–17 October — and it’s arriving with some serious creative heft behind … Continue reading Have a Gander at CELIDH – Pitlochry’s Set for a Right Good Knees-Up
https://www.flickr.com/photos/204241173@N04/55175773286/in/dateposted-public/ Written by Eilidh Smith Songs by Rona Johnston Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ Bathed in fury; burning with feminine rage and lyricism; there’s an undeniable thrill in watching a piece of theatre lean into its own fury with such gleeful theatricality, and with newly debuted Witches Corner at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, it does so … Continue reading Review: Witches Corner – The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/204241173@N04/55171368420/in/dateposted-public/ Words and Lyrics by Belle Jones Composition by AJ Robertson & John Kielty Directed by Stasi Schaeffer Review by Dominic Corr The Pavilion Theatre ★★★★ Once upon a time, the hunt for the ‘next big thing’ in the Scottish musical repertoire was hotly contested. There were champions, some of them brilliant, but sparse. Now, … Continue reading Review: Flora – A New Musical at The Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow
Based on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers Directed and Co-Design by Jamie Harrison Directed by Candice Edmunds Adapted by Oliver Emanuel Review by Libbi Hutton Citizens Theatre ★★★★ It is impossible not to be affected by Oliver Emanuel’s stage adaptation of Caroline Brother’s novel ‘Hinterland’. Theatre company Vox Motus’ ‘Flight’ approaches the challenging task … Continue reading Review: Flight – Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Imaginate’s 2026 Children’s Festival – Edinburgh’s Most Essential Festival Steps Into a New Era Edinburgh is never short on festivals, but only one of them quietly shapes the cultural future of the city. The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival has long been the place where imagination is taken seriously, where young audiences are treated as thinkers, … Continue reading Have a Gander at Edinburgh’s International Children’s: Imaginate
Review by Laurie Kemmett ★★★ Nobody likes a funeral. Even when the deceased isn’t someone you know well. This fact doesn’t change even when you don’t know the person at all - and when the person isn’t a person but a British supermarket of the 2000’s. Enter Paul Campbell and his eulogy for Somerfield. If like, the … Continue reading Review: Paul Campbell: The Lost Tapes of Somerfield, Glasgow Comedy Festival
https://www.flickr.com/photos/204241173@N04/55162589858/in/dateposted-public/ Written by Beth HenleyDirected by Alex Card Review by Dominic Corr ★★★★ Family reunions are rarely tidy affairs, but Crimes of the Heart at The Assembly Roxy proves that chaos can be wildly entertaining when handled with affection, precision and a generous helping of Southern eccentricity. Strawmoddie Theatre Company brings Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading Review: Crimes of the Heart – Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
