Book by Maureen Chadwick Music & Lyrics by Kath Gotts Written by Dominic Corr Assembly Rooms - Music Hall ★★★★ In the extensive repertoire of ‘reality shows turned into musicals’, Maureen Chadwick’s Footballers’ Wives The Musical may, on reflection judgementally, not initially be on the top of most folks lists. If subtlety is your thing, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 – Footballers’ Wives The Musical
Written By Karis Kelly Adapted by Katie Posner Traverse Theatre ★★★★ What’s for lunch? Well, nothing better than a warm bowl of generational trauma. Bitter, but addictive. Winner of the 2022 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, Karis Kelly’s Consumed, now playing at the Traverse Theatre, is a pitch-black comedy that brings four generations of women together … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 – Consumed, Traverse Theatre
Written by James Graham Directed by Andrew Panton The Festival Theatre ★★★★ Make It Happen, debuting at the Edinburgh International Festival, is a searing, frequently exhilarating piece of ensemble drama that balances razor-edged satire with surreal intensity. Directed with flair and no shortage of ambition by Andrew Panton, it dares to grapple with avarice, self-mythologising, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – Make It Happen, Festival Theatre
Review by Marina Funcasta Tickets available here ★★★★ Dovecot’s latest exhibition, presenting itself as “magical” and “playful”, promises a vibrant overview of 60 years of IKEA’s textile design. These terms specifically stood out to me for their enigmatic quality, appealing to the sort of whimsy found in a toy shop at Christmas. And yet, organising … Continue reading Have A Gander at IKEA: Magical Patterns – Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
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
