What a year. From deals with the devil to singing nuns, the blitz to the Appalachian Mountains, and to the end of the world and the emergence of a new one, theatre across Scotland in 2024 was fraught with many difficulties. As we head into a concerning 2025, where questions of funding still hang over … Continue reading Have A Gander – Scottish Theatre 2024
Adapted by David Greig and Jackie Crichton from Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler's Book Directed by Katie Beard Tickets from £13.00 ★★★ There’s a severe lack of stories which celebrate being bad. Or rather, have fun with their baddies and ghoulies; The Baddies, from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Stickman), here adapted by David Grieg and Jackie Crichton, puts the rogues, witches, … Continue reading Review: The Baddies – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/IsOEUkJtxFI Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Directed by Susie Dumbreck Tickets from £18.00 ★★★★★ We hope you’re comfortably in attendance for the ballad of musical theatre’s cut-throat musical, the family black sheep, which revels in the macabre and Victorian-London draping surrounding it. An ambitious and hugely successful production, this isn’t … Continue reading Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by David Greig Directed by Jack Nurse Review by Dominic Corr Cumbernauld Theatre at The Lanternhouse: Tickets ★★★★ Held under house arrest for charges of human trafficking, a man who stated that women ‘bear a responsibility’ for sexual assault and recently described as an ‘important voice’ for young men, this man has over ten … Continue reading Review: The Events – The Lantern House, Cumbernauld
https://youtu.be/hQC7-ie1_VY Written by Jack Nurse & Robbie Gordon Directed by Jack Nurse ★★★★ To paraphrase the right honourable MP Mhairi Black: there’s an ‘F’ word that the country is too fearful to speak. A word we need to vocalise, and a word Wonder Fools encourages audiences to use. A word which thousands died in their … Continue reading 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War – The Brunton Theatre
Writers: Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon Director: Jack Nurse We’ve all been down the pub with this motley crew; ‘the weeman’, ‘the radge’, a ‘non-voter’ and of course, ‘the Tory’. For these pals, this is a usual evening in the seaside town of Prestonpans. They do what all friends do; drink, banter, swear and snipe … Continue reading 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
