Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 33

Edinburgh 2022: Review: RACHEL FAIRBURN: CAN I BE AWFUL? , Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2022

Brassy, abrasive, rude, belligerent. The four horsemen of the apocalypse? No. They’re all words that have been used to describe Rachel of All Killa No Filla, and she’s proper sick of it now. She’s also sick of being told to “be kind” by everyone from bearded hipster men in T-shirts. What’s wrong wit...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: KIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN: HOME TRUTHS, Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2022

Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back and a lot has happened over the last few years. She’s moved back to her home island of Anglesey and gotten some rescue chickens. You can expect jokes about skinny jeans, learning Welsh and white supremacy – something for everyone....

Edinburgh 2022: Review: CATHERINE BOHART: THIS ISN'T FOR YOU, Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2022

Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner. It’s been an interesting couple of years… A blisteringly funny new stand-up show filled with horrendous life advice, cheery nihilism and reluctant self-discovery from one of the UK and Ireland’s most exciting comics...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: LAUREN PATTISON: IT IS WHAT IT IS, Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2022

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Lauren is back with a brand-new show. She is reluctant to say what it is about because if the last year has taught her anything, it's life can change fast… it is what it is....

Edinburgh 2022: Review: Mark Nelson: 'Comedian', Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2022

A powerhouse whose dark humour and cutting observations have firmly established him as one of the UK’s biggest-hitting comedians....

Edinburgh 2022: Review: IRVINE WELSH'S PORNO, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2022

The world premiere stage adaptation inspired by the sequel to cult classic Trainspotting. 15 years after Trainspotting, what has become of Renton, Sickboy, Spud and Begbie?...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: Will Duggan: Iceberg, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2022

Comedy's miserable, cheeky scamp is returning with the weight of the world across his shoulders and some burning questions in his soul. Primarily: why on earth is everyone not just constantly screaming in fury?...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO SHARE, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2022

Alex is a social success. Her Instagram boasts a montage of members-only rooftops and clinking glasses – like after like after like! When her father dies, Alex reluctantly joins a bereavement group. She shares a little, and then lies... a lot....

Edinburgh 2022: Review: SOMETHING IN THE WATER, Summerhall
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2022

When Grumms transforms from a normal girl into a squid monster ('Creature from the Black Lagoon' meets 'The Muppets'), they must hide their secret identity in order to pass in society. Stunning video projections, puppetry and physical comedy combine in this absurd exploration of gender and growing u...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: KAREN FROM FINANCE IS OUT OF OFFICE, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 07, 2022

Pack your calculators, save your spread sheets and set your automatic email reply because Karen from Finance is heading Out of Office! She's hitting the road and she's hitting it hard. Say goodbye to the 80 hour work week and jump on board the Finance Express for this one-woman journey of self-disco...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: NO MORE MISTER NICE CHELSEA, Just The Tonic
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2022

Highly anticipated debut from this 'one to watch' (FunnyWomen.com), 'rising star' (OxInABox.co.uk) and multi-competition finalist. She was 'innocent' (Oxford Mail) and 'adorable' (MumbleComedy.net) but in this thought-provoking and playful show, she explores the things that aren’t so lovely: sex, dr...

Edinburgh 2022: Review: TODAY I KILLED MY VERY FIRST BIRD, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 05, 2022

A South-East London gangster starts to lose his grip on reality when he's forced to look back at the traumatic childhood that made him who he is. The more he remembers, the more brutal he becomes. But just when he's offered a second chance, it might all be too late....

Edinburgh 2022: Review: AUDREY'S ART CLUB, On Demand
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2022

Discover what happens behind the zoom camera in this 30-minute drama of Art Club. Audrey wants to know what doodling's got to do with love and goes back to her lover's childhood home to find answers....

BWW Review: UNDERWOOD LANE, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 20, 2022

Telling the tale of a young skiffle band trying to make it, Underwood Lane has it all: style, fierce love rivalry, broken hearts, dodgy dealers, religion, sex, death, and is written in memory of John’s Paisley buddy, Gerry Rafferty, who was born and brought up on the titular street....

BWW Review: SCOTS, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 29, 2022

A story about Scotland. Its past. Its present. Its future. It’s people. It’s places. All in under an hour! Award-winning musical theatre partnership Noisemaker are delighted to join for the first time with A Play, a Pie and a Pint to premiere this uplifting new musical to round out a dynamic and ecl...

BWW Review: ROCKY HORROR SHOW, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 29, 2022

Ready to thrill you with its frothy, fun, and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life! Follow squeaky-clean sweethearts Brad and Janet on an adventure they’ll never forget, with the scandalous Frank'n'Furter, rippling Rocky...

BWW Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 16, 2022

With stars from The London Palladium Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow, the show features songs that have gone on to become pop and musical theatre classics, including Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door To Me, There’s One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go Joseph....

BWW Review: SIX, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 15, 2022

From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red....

BWW Review: NOISES OFF, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
by Fiona Scott - June 05, 2022

Forty years on from its debut at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London in 1982, Michael Fryan’s farce-within-a-farce, Noises Off, returns to Pitlochry Festival Theatre as part of their 2022 summer season. The comedy was last performed in Pitlochry in 2010 and this marks the first professional vers...

BWW Review: SUNSHINE ON LEITH, PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE
by Fiona Scott - June 02, 2022

The sun is certainly shining on Perthshire, as Pitlochry Festival Theatres celebrates the opening of its recently renovated building. A cheery actor-musician revival of The Proclaimers’ jukebox musical Sunshine on Leith opens their 2022 summer season, a co-production in collaboration with Capital Th...

BWW Review: ALRIGHT SUNSHINE, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 30, 2022

It’s like the sun casts a spell, some hypnotic solar shite, and suddenly ordinary people dae terrible things.” As PC Nicky McCreadie responds to a ‘mass brawl’ on The Meadows, it’s not just the Neds she has to worry about....

BWW Review: MAMMA MIA!, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 26, 2022

Sophie’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings her mother face to face with three men from her distant romantic past on the eve of a wedding they’ll never forget. Read our critic's review. ...

BWW Review: RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE: WERQ THE WORLD, OVO Hydro
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 21, 2022

The 2022 Werq The World tour has enlisted Asia O’Hara, Kameron Michaels, Vanessa Vanjie and Yvie Oddly to sashay their way through days past in hopes of getting back to the present....

BWW Review: ANYTHING GOES, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 12, 2022

Starring Multi-Award Winner Kerry Ellis (Wicked/We Will Rock You) as Reno Sweeney and Olivier Award Winner Denis Lawson (Bleak House/Star Wars) as Moonface Martin. Joining them is Oliver Award Winner Simon Callow (Art/Death in Paradise) as Elisha Whitney and Musical Theatre Royalty Bonnie Langford (...

BWW Review: ABSOLUTE BOWLOCKS, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 02, 2022

When pompous President Maxwell of the Bowling Club belittles the skills of Ladies Champion, Ailsa McKay, she decides to disguise herself and enter the Gentleman’s Championship....