The final show of Elizabeth Newman's impressive debut summer season as artistic director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre bears all the hallmarks of
The 2019/20 season marks both the 80th anniversary of the Dundee Rep's opening and the 20th anniversary of the founding of its
Like sirens, four nurses emerge from the bathtubs on stage. As we learn about them in monologue and dialogue, we are introduced
"Are you Scottish, min?" asks the self-proclaimed "local joker" before us on the stage, in a warm and friendly Highland Scots accent.
John Hughes' 1985 film The Breakfast Club is one of the great coming-of-age tales of our time, but it's been more than
In many ways, this one-woman play by Nicola Wren fulfils many of the stereotypes of low-budget, solo theatre at the Edinburgh Festival
Amusingly pitched as "a disaster movie about falling in love", this new show from writer and director Piers Black ties two separate
With appropriate safety warnings dispensed outside, the audience are ushered into a corner of the stage. The theatre is darkened and a
The Edinburgh Fringe has historically been successful for Stef Smith, who won a host of awards for Roadkill in 2010. This year
In the 1960s, a scientist named Margaret Lovatt attempts on behalf of NASA to teach a dolphin called Peter to speak, in
"Ah'm nae angel," sneers Andy Clark's Tartuffe, one of theatre's great con artists, as he attempts to downplay his own manipulative awfulness
It's sad to note that Arthur Miller's 1953 conflation of the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy hearings of the playwright's own
Kieran Hurley tells David Pollock how class consciousness and Glasgow's Arches theatre helped shape his award-winning writing about human relations, masculinity and
While other shows in Elizabeth Newman's inaugural repertory season have emphasised nostalgic musical theatre and light comedy, Newman's only entirely self-directed piece
"Music is about the only clean thing left in this awful world," is the delicately-freighted message of this revival of Alan Plater's
In a white-walled luxury apartment, two well-to-do couples engage in a séance for a bit of diverting fun. Their invited host for
The artistic director of the Glasgow performing arts festival tells David Pollock about presenting the best of Scottish artists, cutting her teeth
As well as having its own building in the heart of the city, the Dundee Rep Ensemble has also created a strong
The distinctive nature of Pitlochry Festival Theatre's intensive, summer-only repertory system means that this is the first taste of Elizabeth Newman's debut
Elizabeth Newman has been brought in to connect rural Pitlochry Festival Theatre to the rest of Scotland and the globe. David Pollock
Finegan Kruckemeyer's children's fable tells the story of three triplet sisters who are reluctantly abandoned by their father in the forest and
Low Pay? Don't Pay! is a 2010 translation of Dario Fo's post-banking crisis update of his 1974 Marxist satire Can't Pay? Won't
In the hermetically sealed environment of a Los Angeles beach house, an experiment unfolds from 1981 until more or less the present
Although broadly a work of fiction, Morna Young's play about the fishing communities of the North-East of Scotland contains a rich documentary
Maintaining the National Theatre of Scotland's ethos as a 'theatre without walls' is a complex challenge but, for its technical director, it