Image contribution: Andy Rasheed by Erich Kästner, adapted for the stage by Nicki Bloom Who's in the mood for an adventure? Adapted by Nicki Bloom from Erich Kästner’s 1929 novella, this production of Emil & The Detectives receives the full treatment from Slingsby Productions, displaying their signature style of intimate storytelling with cinematic undertones. Every child dreams of adventure, … Continue reading Emil & The Detectives – Traverse Theatre
Image Contribution:Scottish Dance Theatre Choreographer: Colette Sader and Emanuel Gat Emerging from their home in Dundee, Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) highlights the versatility of the artform. Each dancer capable of stripping back pre-conceived notions of gender or ritual, maintaining dignity while delivering powerful displays of passion and skill. Seeking to communicate the celebration of diversity … Continue reading Scottish Dance Theatre Double Bill – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/DNvkRMn8f3k Video Rights:Live Theatre Writer: Kema Sikazwe Director: Graeme Thompson What defines you? Is it your past, your family? Perhaps more realistically it’s the societal labels attached from unwelcomed comments; immigrant, black, poor or untalented which ‘brand’ us. I, Daniel Blake actor Kema Sikazwe’s Shine gives an account of his own difficulties in finding his ability to … Continue reading Shine @ Traverse Theatre
Image contribution:Actors Touring Company Writer: Mark Lockyer Director: Alice Malin We will never live to see every truth unearthed. We will never find all which has been buried beneath the grains of sand about our own, our parents and companions lives. No matter how hard we try to uncover these, to ponder them – we … Continue reading Keep on Walking Federico @ The Traverse Theatre
Writer: Gary McNair Director: Orla O’Loughlin Post Show facilitator: Dr Holly Davis There are few things more powerful than a word, spoken or otherwise. The championed word shouted on the streets and in the press can have the widest impact both for resistance and oppression. The most dangerous word is the one they didn’t want … Continue reading Locker Room Talk @ Traverse Theatre
Image Contribution:Lidia Crissafulli Co-created by: Josie Dale-Jones, Lydia Higginson, Nobahar Mahdavi & Olivia NorrisReviewer: Dominic Corr As reviewers, we have a duty to treat the subjects surrounding the Me-Too movement and rape with individual respect. No longer resigning them to a sub-category of themes. Every production invites us to hear experiences, told in a multitude … Continue reading dressed. @ Traverse Theatre
Image Contribution:Shift Theatre Created by Drew Taylor-Wilson Theatre isn’t as diverse and accommodating as it ought it be – it has just as many issues with representation as film or TV. One company looking to change that is Shift Theatre Company with their launch of Scotland’s first LGBTQI+ Playwrights' festival, Pride Plays, featuring Drew Taylor-Wilson’s black comedy Captivity. Captivity plays … Continue reading The Pride Plays: Captivity @ Traverse Theare
Image contribution:Pete Dibdin Original Concept by Christine Devaney Directors: Christine Devaney, Maria Oller & Jo Timmins Composers: David Paul Jones & Kevin Lennon When was the last time you found yourself delighted? If you even remember the feeling at all. In uncertain times, we strive to maintain happiness, but delight is cast to the wayside. … Continue reading We Are All Just Little Creatures @ Traverse Theatre
Writen and Directed by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir Writing this on the eve of the original Brexit leave date – the realisation that the past three years have resulted in drastic changes amid no change whatsoever dawns even more. That after this turmoil, nothing has been accomplished. All that has happened is the separation of a … Continue reading (Can this be) Home @ Traverse Theatre
Director: Scottee Choreography: Lea Anderson Reviewer: Dominic Corr There’s something about being fat isn’t there? Puts a target on you we just accept. So many ugly words leap to mind describing this ‘epidemic’. All redundant here, chances are one of the Fat Blokes onstage has heard it (or worse). Described as a ‘sort of dance’ what you … Continue reading Fat Blokes @ Traverse Theatre
