https://youtu.be/d4IQuwxRLm0 Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Joanna Bowman Review by Anna Burnside Tickets from £15.50 ★★★★ On a minimal set, a row of mottled legs end in well-used feet in comfortable sandals. Three women of bus pass-carrying age in mismatched chairs are drinking tea and discussing the things that absorb neighbours - the state of the … Continue reading Review: Escaped Alone – The Tron Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/iyWDB962pOw From the Work of Charles Dickens Adapted by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie Directed by Andrew Panton Musical Direction by Isaac Savage Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★★ There was a time when we boxed it all away. Unsure if we would even ever open it again. We stored away plans and adventures as we waited for … Continue reading A Christmas Carol – Dundee Rep
Written by Uma Nada-Rajah Directed by Jemima Levick ★★★★ Invading and destructive. Coming over on boats and taking up the spaces, homes, and opportunities of those who have lived here for generations. We’re talking about the American Bull Frog, but you knew that, right? Then again, you’d never invite the frog over for drinks, would … Continue reading The Great Replacement – A Play, A Pie, And a Pint
Written by Aodhan Gallagher Directed by Irene Macdougall ★★★★ Sensitivity readers. A job title unheard of in the past. Everyone has one now, even colossal writers who have graced us with scenes of intense violence, sexual assault, and a soupcon of scatological discomfort. But not everyone feels their necessity. The world of theatre, literature, film, … Continue reading Write-Off – A Play, A Pie, And a Pint
Written by Ben Lewis Directed by Lu Kemp ★★★★★ Living a relatively quiet middle-class lifestyle amidst the trinkets and collectables which faintly glitter with promise and memory, Don, an intelligent, eccentric gentleman of a growing age from Clackmannanshire, is peppered with the natterings and intrusions of his family and care-workers. They fret over him with … Continue reading Don Quixote: Man of Clackmannanshire – Dundee Rep
Written by Writer Tony Roper Directed by Becky Hope-Palmer Songs by Dave Anderson ★★★★ Hogmanay in the fifties. But we’re not in our glad rags partying it up in the high rises and tenements, no, Tony Roper’s firm Scottish classic The Steamie finds us throwing on a pinny and getting our hands into the basin … Continue reading The Steamie – Dundee Rep
Written by Lucy Kirkwood Directed by Andrew Panton ★★★★★ Unexpected, but far from unfamiliar – a visitor arrives at a small cottage by the shoreline, their intentions unknown, but their presence unnerves the residents of this off-grid slice of tranquillity in a world snared in turmoil. Once a distant fantasy, but now a crushing reality … Continue reading The Children – Dundee Rep
