https://youtu.be/flgN-VMpcT8 Book, Music, and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein Directed by Christopher Ashley Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £29.00 ★★★★★ “Welcome to the Rock if you’ve come from away” sings Nicholas Pound to the audience, open-armed as the mayor of Gander, Newfoundland. Get ready to be immersed in the experience of the … Continue reading Review: Come From Away – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein Directed by Christopher Ashley Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £29.00 ★★★★★ Welcome to The Rock, folks. We have a feeling you might like it here. It’s common for a musical to generate a sense of community; it’s rare for it to succeed to this … Continue reading Review: Come From Away – The Edinburgh Playhouse
Music from Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Todrick Hall and Jess Folley Directed by Nick Winston Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★★ Some of us might be digging out the winter wardrobe, but at The King’s Theatre, Glasgow, they’re giving a lot more by wearing a little less as the Scottish premiere for Burlesque takes to the city with an intensive … Continue reading Review: Burlesque The Musical – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/AIhRRsiZ-6I Play by Lolita Chakrabarti from the Novel by Yann Martel Directed by Max Webster Puppetry and Movement Direction by Finn Caldwell Review by Annie Aslett Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Yann Martel’s Life of Pi – first published in 2001, transformed for the big screen in 2012, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti for the West End … Continue reading Review: The Life of Pi – The Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/5WyBz9UlYHI Based on the Film by Hayao Miyazaki Adapted and Directed by John Caird Co-Adapted by Maoko Imai Tickets: £28.00 ★★★★ The guise of gods and myths take unique forms in limitless manners over countless cultures. But no matter what – we share stories of selflessness, fear, and the intricacies of growing up. And where we in the UK … Continue reading Review: Spirited Away – The London Collessium
https://youtu.be/m4iWTvcEqD4 Book and Lyrics Robyn Grant and Daniel Foxx Music by Tim Gilvin Directed by Robyn Grant Tickets: £17.00 ★★★★★ Do you hear it? Not those harsh, horrific tones from Scuttle the Seagull. Nor the circling Disney lawyers scratching their heads in frustration. No, it’s a filthy, bold, and queer-as-hell siren call echoing out of … Continue reading Review: Unfortunate – The Glasgow Pavilion
Adapted by Glyn Maxwell from Edmund Rostand Directed by Phil Barnes Tickets: £15.00 ★★★★ Unconditional love is a bounty of limitless possibilities - chiefly pain and euphoria. There’s no wonder why it is the rhyme & reason of many a poet and performer. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac underpins the values of loyalty and forms of expressive love with that of a … Continue reading Review: Cyrano de Bergerac – Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Morna Young Directed by Finn den Hertog Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★ At the risk of conjuring a Prelim exam question: just what is it that secures Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song as one of the most important contemporary pieces of Scottish literature? But for any who have read the original piece or audiences leaving the Dundee Rep this evening, … Continue reading Review: Sunset Song, Dundee
Written by Zoë Bullock Adapted from the work by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko Directed by Shilpa T-Hyland ★★★★ There’s something to be said about caring for our little nightmares before they ferment into larger ones - when their influence extends beyond just our own headspace. And that despite how they make us feel and the pain they … Continue reading Review: Shō and the Demons of the Deep – Platform, Glasgow
Adapted by Matthew Spangler Based on the Novel by Khaled Hosseini Directed by Giles Croft ★★★★★ Initially staged in 2009, the adaptation of Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini‘s 2003 novel wanders through an ashen timeline of which many of us may claim some understanding but frequently fail to recognise the extent. Set over twenty-five years of Afghan history, from pre-Russian … Continue reading Review: The Kite Runner – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
