Written by Laurie Motherwell Directed by Robert Softley Gale ★★★ There’s just something about ice cream, isn’t there? It captures this isolated point where troubles don’t so much vanish but melt. It’s a world where responsibility is misplaced until you hit the soggy bottom of the cone, and the only issue you’ve got is if … Continue reading Sean and Daro: Flake It ‘Til They Make It – Traverse Theatre
Written by Willy Russell Directed by Elizabeth Newman ★★★★★ Hello, screen. You listen to me right; I've got a cracker story to tell you. Russell’s Shirley Valentine and her infamous conversations with the Kitchen wall are now closing in on forty years old. And yet, she never truly ages. The pine kitchen and lack of jittering gadgets … Continue reading Shirley Valentine – Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Written by John Byrne Directed by Andy Arnold ★★★ Love, life, death, and a poke of chips; it’s the 60s in Scotland, West Coast Johnstone and Paisley, where the weather is temperamental, and the unshackled restrictions and attitudes of the Swinging Sixties hadn’t quite made it north of the border. But there was one thing … Continue reading Underwood Lane – Johnstone Town Hall
https://youtu.be/oL3IC6Q35VM Book, Song & Lyrics by Willy Russel Directed by Bob Tomson & Bill Kenwright ★★★★ Legendary - Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, beloved across the country, draws the ancient philosophical narrative of nurture versus nature into the contemporary world. Downtrodden and faced with no alternative, Mrs Johnstone is scarcely able to feed her existing children … Continue reading Blood Brothers – Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Shelagh Delaney Directed by Bijan Sheibani Tickets Available from Capital Theatres: https://www.capitaltheatres.com/whats-on/taste-of-honey It might seem grim up north, or this could be the skewed view thanks to a series of kitchen-sink realism pieces emerging throughout Britain in the ‘50s and ‘60s. A prime example is that of Shelagh Delaney’s gritty, but enriching play … Continue reading A Taste of Honey – King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
