Written by Harry Michaels and Alan McHugh With Additional Material from Elaine C Smith and Johnny Mac Directed by Kathryn Rooney Review by Dominic Corr The King's Theatre ★★★★ Life is always better with bubbles; this splash of spectacle, the King’s Theatre’s Little Mermaid pantomime, is a riot of colour, comedy, and villainy, with dazzling effects … Continue reading Review: The Little Mermaid – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Robbie Gordon & Jack Nurse Story Created with the Women of Dundee Change Centre Directed by Bryony Shanahan Tickets: £20.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ Though there isn’t a bauble in sight for the closing production of the Traverse Theatre’s season, there’s little wonder why the venue deviates from the Christmas route with Same Team. Or … Continue reading Same Team – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/530somdCRDw Written by Isobel McArthur, after Jane Austen Directed by Isobel McArthur and Simon Harvey ★★★★★ It takes vision to reinvigorate a text, particularly a homogenous genre-defining work of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Ignore every preconception you may have about the Romantic Drama of Austen’s literary classic and enable Isobel McArthur to pulverise those ideas … Continue reading Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort of) – Royal Lyceum Theatre
Written by John Byrne Directed by Andy Arnold ★★★ Love, life, death, and a poke of chips; it’s the 60s in Scotland, West Coast Johnstone and Paisley, where the weather is temperamental, and the unshackled restrictions and attitudes of the Swinging Sixties hadn’t quite made it north of the border. But there was one thing … Continue reading Underwood Lane – Johnstone Town Hall
