Scotland Theater Reviews Page 11

Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, King's Theatre Glasgow
by Fiona Scott - October 18, 2023

The touring version of the acclaimed Regents Park Open Air Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar comes to Glasgow. After an initial UK (indoor) run at the Barbican, the show toured the US before embarking on this UK tour....

Review: QUIZ: THE COUGHING MAJOR MILLIONAIRE SCANDAL, King's Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - October 12, 2023

It’s worth coughing up some cash for Daniel Evans’ and Sean Linnen’s Quiz: The Coughing Major Millionaire Scandal at Kings’ Theatre this week....

Review: BATTERY PARK, The Gaiety, Ayr
by Natalie O'Donoghue - October 08, 2023

It's 1992 and Tommy McIntosh is the next big thing in Britpop Britain. His band Battery Park, a raucous female-fronted 4-piece from Greenock are recording their debut album and preparing to tour the country supporting Oasis. But then, out of the blue, they disappear from the scene and are never hear...

Review: RUNESICAL, Streaming Online
by Charlotte Bois-Pursey - October 05, 2023

An interactive adventure brimming with typical Gigglemug silliness....

Review: 2:22 A GHOST STORY, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
by Mary Baillie - September 29, 2023

If you go to 2:22 A Ghost Story expecting traditional spine-chilling phantoms, you will be disappointed. Renouned in the West End for starry casts and numerous awards, 2:22 A Ghost Story isn't really a ghost story at all. Far from the horror genre one might expect, the piece is more of an amusing bu...

Review: TALLY'S BLOOD, Perth Theatre
by Mary Baillie - September 25, 2023

A frontrunner of Scottish school curricula, Ann Marie Di Mambro’s Tally’s Blood has a bit of everything – history, humour, tragedy, romance and disturbingly relevant social critiques....

Review: RACHEL FAIRBURN: SHOWGIRL, The Stand, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 25, 2023

Rachel (“Very much the rock’n’roll star of British comedy”- Rolling Stone) - (“Fairburn delivers…with sadistic glee” – Guardian) - (“Mouth Almighty” – Her Friends) is back with a brand-new tour for 2023. She’ll be casting her acerbic eye over everything from your children to her pretentious new alco...

Review: COAST, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 24, 2023

Half-siblings, Jay and Kay, are on a road trip travelling overnight from Glasgow. After growing up apart, the recently united pair are heading for the coast down south, to go camping for a few nights and get to know each other better....

Review: LEAR'S FOOL, Bard in the Botanics
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 20, 2023

Bard in the Botanics is proud to present the Scottish premiere of David Henry Wilson’s beautiful, funny and tender drama, imagining what becomes of King Lear’s Fool, after the character disappears from Shakespeare’s great tragedy....

Review: SHIP RATS, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 16, 2023

It’s 1880, and being the only woman on a cargo ship in the South China Sea isn’t the safest place for Jessie. Especially when there’s a dead body on board and she’s feeling queasy....

Review: ENGLAND AND SON, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 16, 2023

Set when The Great Devouring comes home, England & Son is a one-man play written specifically for the award-winning political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack) and the first play that Mark has ever performed in that he has not also...

Review: DRACULA: MINA'S RECKONING, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 14, 2023

Under the buzzing lights of a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire in 1897, Mina Murray recounts her encounters with the most terrifying of beasts: Dracula. A throng of patients listen with bated breath as they are transported to a world where immortality and ultimate power is possible, even for wo...

Review: FOREVER HOME, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 10, 2023

Growing up is never simple but for Caitlin, there are extra complications: Caitlin was in care, then adopted, now her birth family want her in their lives. Things are spiralling out of control….....

Book Review: BREAKING DOWN YOUR SCRIPT by Laura Wayth
by Laura Lott - September 14, 2023

The moment when you're presented with a whole new script can feel a little overwhelming for an actor, but Breaking Down Your Script: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Actor is here to help. It's written by Laura Wayth, who has worked as an acting teacher in Italy, Morocco, China and the UK....

Kilmartin Museum Reopens to the Public Following Redevelopment Project
by Natalie O'Donoghue - September 03, 2023

Sunday, 3 September 2023 marks the re-opening of Kilmartin Museum, revealing its incredible renovation which includes a much larger exhibition space, a stunning learning space which can be used to deliver and participate in cultural and educational activities, new galleries housing temporary art exh...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DR BONK'S MACARBARET, Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, Main Room
by Kat Mokrynski - August 30, 2023

As someone who is a scaredy cat but loves morbid humour and wanted to test my boundaries during the Fringe, I decided to give Dr. Bonk’s Macarbaret a try. The show, hosted by Edinburgh’s only living plague doctor, Dr. Bonk (played by Eliott Simpson), is a cabaret that promises “laughs, scares, and g...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHRIS THORBURN: CINEMAN, Just The Tonic at The Mash House
by Mark Carnochan - August 29, 2023

Chris Thorburn shows off his terrific charisma and charming personality through the scope of one of his greatest loves - the movies....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: POLICE COPS: THE MUSICAL, Assembly George Square Studios
by Kat Mokrynski - August 31, 2023

After seeing Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name and loving the group’s sense of humour and fantastic dynamic, I knew that I wanted to see their 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Police Cops: The Musical. Somehow, this show managed to exceed my already high expectations, making for a perfect last sho...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: GOD CATCHER, Underbelly, Bristo Square, Ermintrude
by Kat Mokrynski - August 31, 2023

In this new interpretation of the Greek myth, created by Cassie Muise and Tyler Mckinnon, Arachne uses her weaving to follow in her mother’s footsteps and tell the stories of forgotten women, going against the “truths” told by the elders. ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ELIOTT SIMPSON: (A)SEXY AND I KNOW IT, Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, Main Room
by Kat Mokrynski - August 30, 2023

In nearly every comedy show I have seen at the Fringe, there have been sexual jokes, with some going as far as having vibrators and dildos on stage. To be honest, as an asexual, I needed a break from all of that, and I knew Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It would be the perfect place to laugh wi...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DARK NOON, Pleasance at EICC, Lennox Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - August 31, 2023

Dark Noon’s description states “They say history is told by the victors; this story is told by the vanquished.” The show is a “brutal recreation of the Wild West” of the United States of America. As someone who grew up in the States, I am quite familiar with the glorified tales of the settling of th...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CSI: CRIME SCENE IMPROVISATION, Underbelly, Bristo Square, Ermintrude
by Kat Mokrynski - August 31, 2023

The concept of CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation is quite simple. A murder has taken place, and it is up to the audience to not only catch the killer but also to create the crime scene themselves, setting the scene for the actors. ...

Review: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 30, 2023

From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Coraline, Good Omens and The Sandman (now a major Netflix series), comes the National Theatre’s major new stage adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CELYA AB: SECOND RODEO, Pleasance
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 29, 2023

As a child, all she wanted was to be an adult. Now she's at the table, she wants out. Following her acclaimed, sell-out debut hour, Celya returns: expect tales of romance, a hologram, and a near-death experience in Thorpe Park....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: AN AFTERNOON WITH ANTON DU BEKE, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 29, 2023

Strictly Come Dancing legend and judge, Anton Du Beke, takes to the stage with his live band, a guest singer and his dancers; expect a fab-u-lous afternoon of song, dance and laughter....