Directed and Co-Written by Ken Alexander Co-Written by Fraser Boyle Associate Direction and Choreography by Sarah Wilkie Musical Direction and Composition by Stuart Fleming Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £18.00 ★★★★★ There it is, folks: the pantomime. This is how it’s done, a pantomime with an old soul, a contemporary mindset, and nothing but … Continue reading Review: Mother Goose – The Gaiety, Ayr
Written and Directed by Barrie Hunter Musical Direction by Alan Penman Review by Dominic Corr Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ The most versatile ingredient? The humble egg. So, it only makes sense that the most versatile of pantomimes, in strong and imaginative hands, Mother Goose can open itself up to a plethora of story avenues and … Continue reading Review: Mother Goose – Perth Theatre
Written by Morna Young, after Lewis Grassic Gibbon Co-conceived by Finn den Hertog and Morna Young Directed by Finn den Hertog, Music by Finn Anderson Review by Josie Rose Tickets from £10.00 ★★★★★ ‘Nothing endures but the land’. As audiences follow the seasons of Chris Guthrie’s life, change seems to be the only constant. In some … Continue reading Review: Sunset Song – Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Morna Young Directed by Finn den Hertog Tickets from £15.00 ★★★★ At the risk of conjuring a Prelim exam question: just what is it that secures Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song as one of the most important contemporary pieces of Scottish literature? But for any who have read the original piece or audiences leaving the Dundee Rep this evening, … Continue reading Review: Sunset Song, Dundee
Written by Hans Christian Andersen, Adapted by Morna Young Directed by Cora Bissett Composition and Sound Design by Finn Anderson Tickets from £22.50, £10.00 for children ★★★ As the cold winds blow and chill to the bone, Edinburgh envelopes itself in a glittering robe of festive cheer once more as the Royal Lyceum revives its … Continue reading The Snow Queen – The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/SDUj0904xYQ Written by Morna Young Concept by Alan B McLeod Directed by Luke Kernaghan Featuring the Songs of Runrig ★★★ What is 'home'? Is it where we feel safe, where we are from, or is it simply the land itself we inhabit? Perhaps, it’s all of these. Or maybe it's something more. The merger of … Continue reading The Stamping Ground – Festival Theatre
Written by Nicola McCartney, Tawona Sitholé, Uma Nada-Rajah & Ben Harrison Directed by Ben Harrison ★★★★ The unthinkable is now a near-distant reality, in which the United Kingdom finds itself at the mercy of the growing climate catastrophe. Deemed ‘The Great Wave’, there are days, maybe only hours left, before the country is all but … Continue reading Muster Station – Leith Academy
