Written and Directed by Johnny McKnight Musical Direction, Composition and Arrangements by Alan Penman Review by Dominic Corr Macroberts Art Centre ★★★★★ Remarkable to think that, in celebrating their twenty years of involvement with the Macroberts Art Centre pantomime, the celebrated performer, writer, director, dame, and icon Johnny McKnight revisits the woods nearly a decade … Continue reading Review: Weans in the Wood – Macroberts Art Centre, Stirling
Written and Directed by Barrie Hunter Musical Direction and Sound Design by Alan Penman Review by Dominic Corr Perth Theatre ★★★★ Chill out and prepare to be dazzled: The Snow Queen at Perth Theatre is a frosty feast of spectacle that warms the heart. With costumes that sparkle like freshly fallen snow and a set … Continue reading Review: The Snow Queen – Perth Theatre
Written and Directed by Morag Fullarton Tickets from £17.50 (Con available) ★★★★ With discussions surrounding the waning patience of audiences and their commitment to a night at the theatre often dependant on finance, something like Perth Theatre’s Casablanca, The Gin Joint Cut can suffice every itch audiences may have. Doing so with aplomb and heartfelt performances as this … Continue reading Review: Casablanca, The Gin Joint Cut – Perth Theatre
Written & Directed by Cosette Bolt Assistant Direction by Michael Stephens Music Direction by Mhairi Cross Tickets Free - (Donation encouraged) ★★★★ It’s miraculous to find new ways to stage Dicken’s legacy piece: this season alone has seen several new and returning attempts to capture the spirit of the ultimate ghost story, A Christmas Carol, through innovative technique, solo … Continue reading A Christmas Carol – St Salvador’s Church, Edinburgh
Written and Directed by Barrie Hunter Musical Direction by Alan Penman Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ Not only is there cause to celebrate with the commercial success of Perth Theatre's Aladdin, as it becomes the venue's most popular panto, but Barrie Hunter’s Perthshire high-flung adventure is one of Scotland’s best pantomimes right now – an ecological thriller … Continue reading Aladdin – Perth Theatre
Written by Ann Marie Di Mambro Directed by Ken Alexander ★★★★ There’s something majestical to old Italian confectionary stores in Scotland, specifically Glasgow. Ribboned with faux-gold and clean white tiles - serving up ice cream, pokes o' chips, sweets and cigarettes, the bellows of the family matriarch behind the ribboned doorway suggest an intense familial … Continue reading Tally’s Blood – Perth Theatre
Written by Willy Russell Directed by Martin McCormick ★★★★ A knock on the door. Well, a few knocks. A few knocks and a kick. That’s how audiences are introduced to Rita, who isn’t just barrelling down the door but opening a barrage directly into the cultural gatekeeping of class – the value and art of … Continue reading Educating Rita – Perth Theatre
Written and Directed by Barrie Hunter Musical Direction by Alan Penman ★★★★ If it wasn’t for the vividly bright oranges and flannel forest greens, one might be forgiven for not realising that you might not be in the Fair City but in the land of Middle Perth, of Mickle Muchty under the looming shadow of … Continue reading Jack and the Beanstalk – Perth Theatre
https://youtu.be/fLmfwknvLic Written by May Sumbwanyambe Directed by Orla O'Loughlin ★★★★★ There’s a reason that one of the few props Enough of Him utilises is a chess board. There’s a reason that upon its second usage, the original piece colours have their players deliberately switched. Joseph Knight. A name that should ring through Scottish history to the present, … Continue reading Enough of Him – Pitlochry Festival Theatre
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
