Written By Christopher Marlowe Adapted by Jennifer Dick Tickets from £19.00 ★★★★ A stroll through purgatory, with the oblivion of damnation awaiting beyond the wrought iron of the Kibble Palace, is not what one would typically expect on a rather toasty, near-hellish, sunny day in Glasgow’s Botanical Gardens. Yet nestled among the lush greenery, this … Continue reading Review: Doctor Faustus – Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow
Written by Francis Beaumont With Additional Text by Ben Jonson, El Josar and Matthew Schwarz Adapted and Directed by Marc Silberschatz Tickets from £10.80 Chivalry is dead. Isn’t it? At least, that’s what we’ve all been claiming for decades now. Well, centuries. But what chivalry truly is, and when it found itself dead and buried, is something we’ve … Continue reading Review: The Knight of the Burning Pestle – The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
Written by William Shakespeare Freely adapted from “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Gordon Barr Directed by Gordon Barr Tickets from £19.00 ★★★★ There's nothing that a good roll n’ sausage, chamomile tea, or solid sesh’ down at the pub won’t solve. And for those difficult days which need something a little extra, well, there’s … Continue reading Review: The Merry Wives of Wishaw – Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow
Written and Directed by Jennifer Dick Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Bronte Tickets from £19.00 ★★★★ Shifting from the 'grim (up) north' to the bristle and howl of the Scottish Highlands (via the Glasgow botanic gardens), Jennifer Dick’s new version of Bronte’s genre-defining and eyebrow-raising novel firmly roots itself in the grit and gravel … Continue reading Review: Jane Eyre, An Autobiography – Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow
Written by Henrik Ibsen, In a New Version by Kathy McKean Directed by Gordon Barr Tickets from £19.00 ★★★★ The female Hamlet (only better). That’s how some describe Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, the notoriously complicated woman of wit and word, always yearning, confined more so than they are free. The Norwegian tragedy, of a general’s daughter, confined … Continue reading Review: Hedda Gabler – Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow
The esteemed outdoor theatre festival returns to Glasgow this Summer, Bard in the Botanics will through open the gates to the Gardens once again in a celebration of Shakespeare and theatre. Committed to the Bard, while the company continue to press forward with their revitalising decision to expand their repertoire, the programme includes a staging … Continue reading Have A Gander – Bard in the Botanics 2024
Written by Ed Edwards Directed by Cressida Brown Tickets: £15.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ If it wasn’t for their admission, and the playwright's presence this evening at the Traverse, the idea that this is the first play Mark Thomas has performed that he has not written may have never occurred to audiences. They'd be proven right, … Continue reading Mark Thomas in England & Son – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Adapted by Jay Presson Allen Directed by Phil Wilkinson ★★★★ What a vibrant and darkly carried choice in Leitheatre’s final performance for 2024, with the grimly satirical and remarkably clever The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Utilising some exceptional characterisation and comedic beats, their staging of Jay Presson Allen’s 1966 play turns the charismatic English teacher … Continue reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written & Directed by Gordon Barr Tickets from £19.00 ★★★★★ While the Dundee Rep’s A Christmas Carol reminds us of what we nearly lost in recent years, The Byre Theatre’s Christmas pantomime serves as a stark reminder that the prospect is still painfully real for venues up and down Scotland. For theatres and venues which survived lockdowns, … Continue reading Cinderella – The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
Written by David Henry Wilson Directed by Jennifer Dick ★★★★ The unknown fate of characters has plagued and enriched the texts of countless authors and storytellers for centuries. The immense power in the unexplored catapults sometimes small, seemingly inconsequential players into a new world ripe for the picking: where does Long John Silver wash ashore? … Continue reading Lear’s Fool – Bard in the Botanics
