82 stories by "David Pollock"
A triumphant return for the festival saw punters immersed in grief, jazz-rock freakouts and feminist anger, writes David Pollock
When Neil Simon's first major hit, Barefoot in the Park, appeared on Broadway in 1963, its youthful, urbane wit and freshness was
Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point has created an adaptation of Franz Kafka's nebulous novel The Metamorphosis that reflects the times in which
It feels as though all the stops have been pulled out for Perth Theatre's new version of Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedy, its
Lu Kemp, artistic director at Perth Theatre, tells David Pollock about her next season for the Scottish theatre and why she has
Following recent shows about the Tay Bridge disaster and famed Scottish comic strip character Oor Wullie, Dundee Rep's 2019-20 season continues to
On the Applecross peninsula in the West Highlands of Scotland, a young woman named Laura (Lucy Doyle) arrives at her family's remote
There are few works in the history of Scottish theatre that occupy a place as rarefied as Tony Roper's 1987 community hall
Now the Krankies have confirmed their retirement from the pantomime scene, producer Qdos Entertainment has refreshed the largest pantomime in Scotland. This
This short seasonal piece for children aged three and over takes place within one of the smaller studio rooms in Glasgow's Southside
While it's essentially a traditional local panto that sticks firmly to the conventions of the genre, there are flourishes of real quality
Running alongside its all-singing, all-dancing and intensely enjoyable gender reversal panto for older audiences Cinderfella, Glasgow's ever-dependable Tron Theatre is also staging
Scottish Ballet's 50th anniversary year draws to a close with this seasonal spectacular, making itself at home in Edinburgh throughout December and
Now firmly installed as master of ceremonies at Perth's annual pantomime, writer, director and leading dame Barrie Hunter has settled on a
The final production of the year at Elizabeth Newman's reinvented Pitlochry Festival Theatre is emblematic of the approach that has served the
Renowned across the Central Belt of Scotland for his especially modern and fresh-thinking pantos, Johnny McKnight is a fixture at Glasgow's Tron,
After a few years gathering dust in a drawer, Tony Roper's comedy-drama The Steamie finally hit the stage in 1987. More than
Created in 1936, and a weekly fixture of Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post's cartoon pages ever since, Oor Wullie is an iconic
Originally commissioned by Scotland's Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in 2011, playwright Robert Alan Evans' adaptation of Barry Hines' 1968 novel A Kestrel
In a hospital birthing room, a woman named Hope has just given birth to a large egg. Joy, the woman in scrubs
Between Pitlochry Festival Theatre's traditional summer repertory season and large-scale Christmas show, artistic director Elizabeth Newman's introduction of a mid-autumn play appears
There's great ambition in Jenni Fagan's adaptation of her acclaimed 2012 novel, about a young woman growing up in the care system,
Director Andy Arnold was first drawn to Ben Jonson's 17th-century play by a review from the critic Kenneth Tynan, which noted the
As Dundee Rep celebrates its 80th birthday and 20 years of its resident ensemble, artistic director Andrew Panton tells David Pollock about
Science fiction and horror are incredibly difficult to do well on stage. David Greig's new adaptation of Solaris, directed by Matthew Lutton,
