Book and Lyrics by Tom MacRae From an idea by Jonathan Butterell Directed by Matt Ryan from original direction by Jonathan Butterell Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ Seven years since its debut, and we’re still talking about him. And after catching the newest incarnation of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, you can hardly blame people. Now a … Continue reading Review: Everybody Talking About Jamie – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Damian Barr and James Ley Adapted from the Memoir of Damian Barr Directed by Suba Das Tour Dates and Ticket Details ★★★★ Smouldering brimstone, bleeding walls, hellish fractures in the earth, and Murray Mints: something is in the air as the Tron Theatre houses the revival of Scotland’s most persistent nightmare: a Tory. And worst of the lot, it’s Margaret … Continue reading Review: Maggie & Me – The Tron Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/-6zzHywYHVs Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Sally Reid Tickets from £17.50 ★★★★ Thus far we’ve had a look at a stringent one-man telling of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, and a revived juggernaut of a show which captures the survival of theatre within its bones. And if there was ever a question that Panto hero Johnny McKnight’s Aganeza Scrooge was … Continue reading Aganeza Scrooge – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Gary McNair after Charles Dickens Directed by Andy Arnold Tickets from £15.50 ★★★ With a gloriously apt title to capture the Scots' more cynical outlook (or perhaps something more earnest), Gary McNair’s new incarnation of Charles Dick’s literary epic Great Expectations condenses the beats of the story into a slow-burning and infectiously Glaswegian Nae Expectations, which … Continue reading Nae Expectations – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Hannah Lavery Directed by Natalie Ibu ★★★ The significant power of young voices is central in this year’s Imaginate programmes, and arguably no other production captures this messaging better than Lavery’s commissioned Protest. Commissioned and backed by Fuel, Imaginate, National Theatre of Scotland and Northern Stage, Protest captures the innocent nature of playground politics, … Continue reading Protest – The Studio, Potterrow
Written and Performed by Imogen Stirling Directed by Matthew Lenton ★★★★★ Envy, Lust, Wrath, Avarice, Gluttony, Sloth, and Pride. Archaic vices, relics of a Christian device of control – or something altogether more benign? Initially conceived and eventually published by Verve Press as Stirling’s second poetry collection, Love the Sinner draws the seven vices of classical theology … Continue reading Love the Sinner
Based on the book by Édouard Louis, translated by Lorin Stein Adapted and Directed by Nora Wardell ★★★★ Politics is a life or death game – a chess board where the hands moving the players know not the weight they wield. Surrogate production’s touring piece, Who Killed My Father, is based on Édouard Louis’ (translated by … Continue reading Who Killed My Father – Traverse Theatre
Written by Ross Willis Directed by Joanna Bowman ★★★★ Romulus and Remus, Mowgli, San, and now 'A'. Their upbringings were, in some ways, a touch hairy. And whilst their environments are strikingly different to the conventional manner of childhood, they nevertheless find a sense of nurture – even if only for a time with their … Continue reading Wolfie – Tron Theatre
Written by Calum L. MacLeòid Directed by Muireann Kelly ★★★★ A pair of outlaws, trapped in a horrendous snowstorm: a nod to Tarantino – with a rich command of the multi-lingual language, and a firmer footing in expanded narrative truth, Theatre Gu Leòr's Muireann Kelly and playwright Calum L MacLeòid's co-production with An Lanntair arts … Continue reading Stornoway, Quebec – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/jPr7wLXy084 Written by David Ireland Directed by Andy Arnold ★★★★ The cautionary content warnings which come alongside Tron Theatre’s production of David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue are not to be ignored. This is stated more for those unfamiliar with Ireland’s award-winning productions, which range widely in their use of violence, humour, and the discomfiting to drive home aspects … Continue reading Cyprus Avenue – Tron Theatre
