Written by Oscar Wilde Directed by Gordon Barr Designed by Heather Grace Currie ★★★★★ Dig out the finest silverware, prep those cucumber sandwiches, and for God’s sake, stop eating the muffins – The Importance of Being Earnest is the star of the season, and everyone will be looking for its hand if they’ve got any sense of … Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest – Bard in the Botanics
From the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted and Directed by Jennifer Dick ★★★★ In its history, the Glasgow Botanics has long echoed with sonnets of Shakespeare throughout the summers; until now. But in the canny decision to move and acknowledge the absence of the Bard, the Botanics instead charter the melodramatic cobbles of a … Continue reading Jekyll & Hyde – Bard in the Botanics
Directed by Olivia Jacobs Co-Directed by Toby Mitchell ★★★★ Some of us would perform forever if we could. And for others, our time on the stage is all too brief. Led by the supreme velvety smoothness of Steve Watts’ compere, the audiences of the Southwark Playhouse are in for a delightfully devious treat with Tall … Continue reading The Canterville Ghost – Southwark Playhouse
Directed by Simon Parris Written by Josh King ★★★★ Let’s be frank: The Importance of Being Earnest, despite its status as a classic, is a faint and formulaic production which many seek not to experiment with or alter outside of Oscar Wilde’s original comedic trivialisations. The tale in which protagonists maintain fictitious identities to escape the … Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest…? – Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Written by Henry Filloux-Bennett Directed by Tamara Harvey ★★★★★ Influencer. Just what the hell does that even mean? A social shaman of trends, a digital messiah, or a hollow figurehead on which we cast our self-doubts and desires? By no means a new title, merely now with more lucrative advertising deals, it is (despite lampooning) … Continue reading The Picture of Dorian Gray – Barn Theatre
