Written by Mhairi Quinn Directed by Sarah Rose Graber Tandem Writing Collective's next showcase is Ivor on May 24th, Tron Theatre, Glasgow ★★★ There’s a lot to be angry about right now. Between the cost of olive oil, back-tracking on equality and fundamental rights, and with the current state of funding and opportunities for those in … Continue reading Review: Rage Room – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Hannah McGregor Directed by Niall King Tickets: £18.50 (Con. available) ★★★★ Without so much as a prompt, the audience clicks their fingers in this infamous beat. There isn’t a person in the room (alive or long departed) who doesn’t know what ghoulish treats are awaiting them. Reinventing themselves time and time over, fending … Continue reading Review: The Addams Family – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Hannah McGregor Directed by Debbie Hannah Tickets: £18.50 (Con. available) ★★★ Scotland has a distinct culture of monsters and fiends: Redcaps and The Wulver. Beithir and the Boggle. Or even the fearsome Gorbal’s Vampire or Douglas Ross. But gradually, as we grow, we learn that the real monsters do not lurk beneath the black … Continue reading Review: Ness – Òran Mór, Glasgow
Written & Directed by Lewis Baird Choreographed by Aidan O'Brien & Amy Campbell Musical Direction & Original Music by Tommie Travers Tickets from £15.50 ★★★ With the Portobello Town Hall once more erupting with a thriving sense of life and community (following the group's critical success with Oliver!) Stage Door Entertainment sets its eyes on casting magic … Continue reading Cinderella – Portobello Town Hall
Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Martin McCormick ★★★ It’s hard enough getting one maw a gift for their Christmas, let alone seven. So thank heavens that the Òran Mór's Winter Pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Maws, from Scotland’s panto maestro Johnny McKnight, makes the perfect pre-stocking stuffer for audiences in Glasgow and Scotland. … Continue reading Snow White and the Seven Maws – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Written by Alice Clark Directed by Laila Noble ★★★★ Between the recently touring King and I in Edinburgh and now Alice Clark’s Ship Rats docking in Oran Mor as the newest part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season (and the Traverse Theare’s Autumn PPP opening), the historical relationships of the West and East couldn’t be … Continue reading Ship Rats – A Play, A Pie, and A Pint
Written by Pauline Lockhart Directed by Niloo-Far Khan Music by Alan Penman ★★★ Home is where the heart is, so the idiom goes. But when your heart just isn’t ‘in it’, where do you call home? Struggling at school, frustrated with life, and without a source of understanding to turn to, Caitlin begins to act out more … Continue reading Forever Home – A Play, A Pie, and a Pint
Written by Rachel Flynn Directed by Ryan Dewar ★★★★ Sisterhood centuries in the making, closing this season’s A Play, A Pie, and A Pint, Rachel Flynn’s Keepin’ The Heid is as equally a tale for the audiences today as it is a historical comedic-drama which hurls us back in time, to one of the nation's most infamous … Continue reading Keepin’ The Heid – A Play, A Pie, And A Pint
Written By Peter Arnott Directed by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir ★★★★ In the betwixt and between, conjured before an audience, A woman and a man (Crocodile Fever’s Meghan Tyler, and Simon Donaldson) sit on the Traverse 2 stage, encircled by a harmless but clearly definitive barrier. No locale is offered, no sense of time is clear. We … Continue reading Variant – 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
