Available online A conspiracy unfolds across a week with clues arriving by post, phone and email in an interactive online adventure from Riptide Along with Tik Tok dances and home deliveries…
Available onlineA trip to the gym for some metaphysical exercise opens the Tron theatre's fascinating series of experimental audio dramas Haruki Murakami would have called it What I Talk Abo…
Available online Denied live performance, creators slip its boundaries to explore screen trickery in this stimulating festival of storytelling, puppetry and animation If there's one festival…
The actor, who has died aged 61, had hangdog charm, a cheery twinkle and the sense of danger that sparks chaotic comedy It was 2010 and the world of Scottish theatre was reeling from the sud…
Available online Theodora van der Beek's film about a lactose-fuelled religion is the highlight of an online compilation that finds British theatre-makers in morose mood What if online thea…
Available onlineNational Theatre of Scotland retell the famous panto in a series of madcap monologues The top theatre shows to watch online this Christmas Did Brian Friel ever write a Christ…
Available onlineCovid quips abound " and the Prince keeps his distance from Cinders " in Nottingham Playhouse's colourful show "Recently I've lost my sense of taste and smell," says David Al…
Available onlineDame and director Barrie Hunter's tremendous live show, with characters confined in their Covid-era dressing rooms, is a richly ribald delight At this time of year, we should…
Available onlineAn ordinary hotel room becomes a place of upended perspective and magic in Thaddeus Philips' connection-themed play The adventure is over, the wizard has been exposed and Dor…
Available onlineThis belter of a production is larger than life, with cartoon accents, embellished dialogue and eye-popping outfits King Shirley XII has an awful lot of clothes. His dressing…
Available online Filmed at Pitlochry when a live show was prevented, Elizabeth Newman's charming adventure channels star power to rescue festive spirit Elizabeth Newman is the director who …
Available onlineA melancholic fairytale, African shadow puppetry and a haunted proscenium are among the first five offerings from the Lyceum's series of Christmas plays How many ways are the…
Available onlineIn this exquisite film we go backstage at Glasgow's Tron to hear and see the poet's work performed with beguiling theatricality It's been a long time since we saw the black d…
Available onlineHannah Lavery's play about the death of a man in police custody in 2015 is both impassioned and poetic 'It's not Black Lives Matter," says one of the characters in Hannah Lav…
Available onlinePlaying to a live online audience, mind-reader Scott Silven appears to know our thoughts before we do The joy of a magic trick is in the moment. The magician defies the rule…
You are the solo performer and audience in this quietly transformative piece whose script is delivered to your door One of the things they teach playwrights is character development. If your…
Online via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin's intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickSki…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh/onlineThe comedian " on a solo tour of UK theatres " finds warm and funny layers of humanity in the small details of everyday lives Daniel Kitson doesn't strike you a…
Available onlineUntimely deaths, ritual sacrifice, the supernatural ... steel yourself for a 90-minute immersive quest that's an escape room for the age of social distancing It's bad form to…
Available onlineThe imperilled astronauts' story is retold with a topical slant and a mastery of slow-burn tension What makes this play by Torben Betts gripping is the thrill of a life-and-d…
Available onlineLive Theatre's series of short plays range from the joys and perils of gardening to a howl of rage against a cruel stepmother Anyone remember the olden days? They used to hav…
Available onlineThe sacred salmon is the star of Pitlochry Festival theatre's series of poems and plays inspired by the mysterious River Tay You can't fault Pitlochry Festival theatre for i…
Available onlineTraverse flies the Edinburgh festival flag with audio plays tackling 'what happens after an earth-shattering event', doomsday cults and slippery politics This is the time of…
Edinburgh University's ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows You can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, but…
Available onlineHope Dickson Leach's magical, flickering film of past and postponed works is a dazzling theatrical relay race The test of a good production of Peter Pan is the scene where t…