Preview Review: Velvet Evening Séance (Assembly)
The place where magic and theatre cross over in the venn diagram of performance is an intriguing one. Though the spectacle of...
Aug 7, 2017
Review: Bleach (Laughing Horse @ 48 Below)
One man show? Check. LGBTQ+? Check. Edgy subject matter? Check. You now qualify as a Fringe show. The whole point of the Fringe is to be...
Aug 6, 2017
Review: Nothing (Summerhall)
Nothing matters. Nothing at all. It’s a difficult thing to hear, but that is the premise of Teater V’s production. Based on the beautiful...
Aug 5, 2017
Review: F*ckboys for Freedom (Sweet on Grassmarket)
Ah, subtlety. What a thing it is. This devised production from Pandorum Theatre Company bids us on what turns out to be an adventure into...
Aug 4, 2017
Review: Angels in America Part 2, Perestroika (Lyttelton Theatre)
Wait a moment whilst I adopt my deep, booming narrator voice. Here we go. Last time, on Angels in America: Louis left the dying Prior in...
Jul 28, 2017
Review: Angels in America Part 1, Millennium Approaches (Lyttelton Theatre)
Yes, you read correctly. Part one. This is the National Theatre’s massive production of Tony Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes”,...
Jul 23, 2017
Review: The Lying Kind (Tron Theatre)
You know what I’m in the mood for? The sun is up, Instagram is littered with photos of cocktails and festivals, and people are...
Jul 11, 2017
Preview Review: Titus Andronicus (The Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
Here we go again, Angus Jackson. Regular readers will know that my response to Jackson’s Rome season at the RSC has been quite mixed so...
Jun 28, 2017
Review: Salomé (Olivier Theatre)
A tale of a powerful young woman, a mysterious dance, a severed head and an unforgivable crime….or was it? That seems to be the premise...
Jun 24, 2017
Review: Videotape (Underdog)
Is it right to write a review for this show? An original play, set in our humble Aberdeen, and hidden in a wee bar-with-stage called...
Jun 23, 2017
