Written by Agatha Christie Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff Artistic Direction by Fiona Main Review by Hunter King Threepenny Theatricals ★★★ Threepenny Theatricals performed Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d this weekend at the Church Hill Theatre, marking their second production of the year, following their May production of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. After a guest is … Continue reading Review: The Mirror Crack’d – The Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil Directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy Review by Olivia Burns Glasgow - 2026 tickets ★★★★★ Boublil and Schönberg’s musical returns in ALL of its glory in a visual and audio spectacle. Mackintosh’s revival has nurtured a theatrical buffet of skill, talent, consideration and … Continue reading Review: Miss Saigon – The Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Katy Nixon Directed by Brian Logan Review by Olivia Burns Traverse Theatre ★★★ A Play, A Pie, A Pint vet Katy Nixon returns with horrifying relevance and an uneasy Tuesday-afternoon-watch in Cheapo, directed by Brian Logan. School uniforms, chicken-shop meet-ups, crippling anxiety and big hoop earrings thrust into a paradigm of teenagerisms and adolescence … Continue reading Review: Play, Pie, and a Pint: Cheapo – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/mhZ79NphDQA Written and Directed by Beau Hopkins Review by Dominic Corr Touring ★★★★ There’s a ritualistic pulse to SALT; a show that doesn’t just tell a story, but summons it. Staged at the newly revitalised Paisley Arts Centre, this production from Contemporary Ritual Theatre is a bold, elemental piece of theatre that blends folklore, grief, … Continue reading Review: SALT – Paisley Arts Centre
Written by Jack MacGregor Directed by Andrea Ling Review by Olivia Burns Traverse Theatre ★★★ The last two productions by A Play, A Pie, A Pint at the Traverse have brought us two diverse yet coalescing conversations on the representation of history; last week’s Wallace concerned itself with the impact of archival representation on modern … Continue reading Review: Play, Pie, and a Pint: Our Brother – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/M-r3vUI5MlY Written by Shonagh Murray Directed by Tom Cooper Review by Gabriel Rogers Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ For this week’s edition of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint series, the Traverse Theatre’s loyal audience was treated to an early Burns night, of sorts. Armour: A Herstory Of The Scottish Bard, directed by Tom … Continue reading Review: A Play, A Pie, and a Pint – Armour: A Herstory of The Scottish Bard
Written by Jack Hunter Directed by Amie Burns Walker Review by Gabriel Rogers Tickets from £12.00 ★★★★ In the wonderful Traverse Theatre, armed with a ‘tattie dog’ and a pint of coke, I awaited with anticipation the beginning of Jack Hunter’s The Wolves At The Door. Hunter’s fifty-minute play is a contemporary piece which focuses … Continue reading Review: A Play, A Pie, and a Pint – The Wolves At The Door, Traverse Theatre
Written by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh after Euripides Directed by Philip Howard Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ Some stories are inescapable in their evolution; contemporary rewrites on myth and legend become more numerous in our attempts to revisit them with a renewed lens and offer voices to the once silenced. And when captured with deft intelligence, gallus tongues, … Continue reading Review: Medea on the Mic – A Play, a Pie, and a Pint at Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written by Éimi Quinn Directed by Maureen Carr Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ There are few things more appropriately Scottish than baring down something like cancer or the prospect of an early death, than with little more than a smirk, pals, and plans for one last grand adventure. Taken from actor and writer Éimi Quinn’s experiences as a … Continue reading Review: The Funeral Club – A Play, a Pie, and a Pint at Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written by Raymond Wilson Directed by Fiona Mackinnon Tickets from £16.00 ★★★ Every rock star has a certain want: jewel-encrusted watches, historical artefacts, and less savoury substances. And then there’s Scotland’s own Lewis Capaldi. That loveable scamp, world-class songwriter and vocalist, and renowned for a cracking sense of humour, so what is it that Capaldi wants? Well, it would appear to … Continue reading Review: Lewis Capaldi Goes Tropical – Òran Mór, Glasgow
