Review: MUMBELINA, Òran Mór
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 30, 2024
One morning Mumbelina wakes up to discover she’s shrunk to smaller than Glasgow city council arts budget. And to make matters worse she’s been kidnapped by the wicked amphibian dark overlord Froggie Mercury....
Review: RADIANT VERMIN, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 29, 2024
A wickedly comic satire about a young couple offered a ‘too-good-to-be-true’ way onto the property ladder. Playful, provocative and viciously sharp, this outrageous black comedy is a meditation on how far we will go to satisfy – and justify – materialistic greed....
Review: BUCKET LIST, New Wimbledon Studio
by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 01, 2024
Bucket List is the first play from Show Don’t Tell Productions, a company dedicated to new writing, recently founded by postgraduate creative writing students at Oxford University....
Review: JANE EYRE, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2024
Jane Eyre, orphaned and unloved, takes charge of her life and finds her way to the position of governess at Achadh Droighinn - or Thornfield, in the lowland tongue. There she meets Edward Rochester, a strange but striking fellow, with whom she begins to forge a bond....
Review: PARTY OF THE CENTURY, Òran Mór
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2024
After 100 years, Edmund is going to be the first member of the Melville family to switch party allegiances. He isn’t sure who he is going to vote for, but it won’t be ‘them’…at least that’s the plan the night before polling day....
Review: HEDDA GABLER, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 22, 2024
Recently married and just returned from her honeymoon, Hedda ought to be looking forward to a life of security and domestic bliss – but something isn’t right. Happiness seems entirely out of her reach....
Review: HEN NIGHT HORROR, Pavilion Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 21, 2024
Amanda’s dream wedding is only days away but the proverbial has hit the fan. Her bestie bridesmaids have declared war. Can one last hen night in a remote Highland lodge cover up the cracks? Or will Donna and Lydia crack each other's skulls open before the big day?...
Review: LIFE OF PI, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 19, 2024
After conquering the West End and Broadway, the 5 star ‘theatrical phenomenon’ embarks on its biggest adventure yet. Don’t miss the West End and Broadway spectacle on its first ever UK tour....
Review: GREASE, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - June 19, 2024
Adopting Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's original stage version, the production deviates from the famous movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Here we see subversive, sex-driven working-class teenagers among industrial Chicago instead of beachy California. Sandy Olsson is now Sandy Dumb...