BWW Review: THE MOTHER LOAD, Sound Stage
The Fourth of our Sound Stage series, The Mother Load. Three first-time mothers meet at an ante natal class. Together they must confront their expectations of pregnancy in this funny and moving play about unlikely friendship and the messy realities of parenthood.
BWW Review: BALLYTURK, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Ballyturk is Enda Walsh's moving meditation on the brevity of our existence - a mundane village with echoes of Dylan Thomas's Llareggub in Under Milk Wood, viewed through a Truman Show style filter of confined artificiality.
Explosions both literal and imagined, music and exhilarating physical comedy punctuate beautifully poetic renderings of life in the type of small town we have all visited, and, more likely, lived in. The result is exuberant, surreal, funny and gut-wrenchingly sad.
Enda Walsh Masterpiece BALLYTURK To Be Centrepiece Of Autumn Season At Tron Theatre Company
Tron Theatre Company is delighted that the centrepiece of the autumn season will be its staging of one of the most extraordinary, hilarious and surreal plays in modern theatre: Ballyturk by Enda Walsh. We are honoured to be given the opportunity to present the first British production of this contemporary masterpiece and it will be the final work in a small but significant Irish season this autumn at the Tron.
Tron Theatre Announce New Autumn Season
Artistic Director Andy Arnold's 10th anniversary year Autumn/Winter programme continues to champion the surreal, absurd and challenging pieces that have become his signature over the time he's been at the helm of Tron Theatre.
ACE-Production in Association With From Start to Finnish Presents ALL THE LIGHTS ARE ON
A heart-wrenching four-hander, young playwright Kaisa Lundan has penned a very personal play about a family afflicted by brain cancer. Emmy hasn't even reached the prime of her life when cancer ensures she never will. Whilst her husband attempts to care for her and her mother holds faith with internet voodoo and blueberry juice, Emmy knows that optimism is a false god. Hope of a future fades and even the memory of her marriage evaporates. In two interlocking timespans, All the Lights Are On sees how illness robs Emmy of her independence and identity whilst her nearest and dearest must comes to terms with the limits of their capacity to help.
Traverse Theatre Announces Further Additions To Festival 2018
The Traverse Theatre is excited to announce the final additions to the Traverse Festival 2018 programme - including, in what is Scotland's Year of Young People 2018, Festival favourite Breakfast Plays: Youthquake, pairing three young Scottish playwrights from our Traverse Young Writers' group with three leading British writers. Together they will explore how the younger generation can be a catalyst for political and social change.
Photo Flash: First Look at BINGO! at Edinburgh's Assembly Hall
Promotional images of the new comedy musical Bingo! have been released today. Grid Iron Theatre Company and Stellar Quines Theatre Company present Bingo!, a new musical comedy focusing on lives of six characters and one fateful night at the bingo. Bingo! tours Scotland in March and April 2018.
Traverse Theatre Announces Spring/Summer 2018 Programme
The Traverse Theatre today reveals its Spring/Summer 2018 season, taking in a range of Traverse-produced work including brand new and returning productions, as well as exciting playwright and educational projects. It will also see us build new relationships, and strengthen existing ones, with various visiting companies, to present the very best new theatre on our stages.