Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 37

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: EAST BELFAST BOY, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2021

Meet Davy. The things he sees. His streets. His mates. His girl and… The Boys. ‘It is what it is. It’s hard to say what it is. It’s just, you know. What it is.’ East Belfast Boy goes digital. Filmed throughout East Belfast in the summer of 2020 and directed by Emma Jordan, East Belfast Boy features ...

BWW Review: THIRTEEN FRAGMENTS, National Theatre of Scotland
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2021

Rooted in the experience of the last year as a woman of colour, this intimate digital artwork brings spoken word, poetry, movement and soundscape artforms together to explore the meaning of female resilience in Scotland today. Thirteen Fragments is an artistic response to the Royal Society of Edinbu...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: AS BRITISH AS A WATERMELON, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2021

‘My name is mandla. It means power. I gave it to myself’ – mandla rae has a selective memory and they are scrambling to piece together their life. Through the exploration of mandla’s fragmented asylum and migration memories, as british as a watermelon asks questions about belonging, trauma and forgi...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: THE ENTERTAINMENT, Summerhall Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2021

“I wish Justine would leave me alone, so I could imagine being with her.” Anna has the perfect girlfriend, job and family- in her head. If you can dream it, why do you need to achieve it? When Justine crashes into Anna’s life and her fantasies, she has to make an unsettling choice. In this darkly co...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: PUSH, Pleasance Online
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 08, 2021

A hell of a lot can happen in the time you await the results of a pregnancy test. This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence... and an uncontrollable urge to push. Award-winning Popelei burst out of isolation and onto your screens with their ...

EDINBURGH 2021: GASH THEATRE GETS GHOSTED, Assembly Showcatcher
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2021

A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that's been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities. The Gash gals find themselves stuck, forced to encounter chit-chatting desk lamps, harmonising closet drawers, a TV that plays nothing but romcoms, a...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: MARRYING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, Online @ The Space
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2021

Melissa Center is... Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal. No really – she is! What starts out as her Jewish mom's pesky fantasy (and mild-to-moderate... OK, major obsession) turns into a full-on mission as Melissa, single, struggling and *cough* *cough* approaching 40, searches for love (and Jake Gyllenhaal). ...

EDINBURGH 2021: BWW Review: WHAT ARE WE WATCHING, Fringe Player
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2021

A comedy about four working-class friends, Nick, Dan, Michelle and Lucy. Nick is not a fan of Christmas due to family issues but his partner Lucy is leaving the country shortly, so he is trying to make it a good night for her sake. They have a movie night in during a snowstorm but are stuck watching...

BWW Review: BLACK DIAMONDS AND THE BLUE BRAZIL, Sound Stage
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 26, 2021

The fifth play in our Sound Stage season, Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil is freely adapted from the books of Ron Ferguson – Coal, Cowdenbeath and Football dreams of glory come together in a story about a father a daughter and what it means to succeed....

BWW Review: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 10, 2021

Take a jaunt down to the riverbank and join the adventure, as Mole, Rat and Badger try to instil just a little common sense and protect the impulsive Mr. Toad from harming himself in his impulsive antics and reckless motoring!...

BWW Review: THE MOTHER LOAD, Sound Stage
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2021

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: ADVENTURES WITH THE PAINTED PEOPLE, Pitlochry Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 16, 2021

Directed by Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman, Adventures with the Painted People is a compelling love story, exploring the value of history and the power of writing. Lucius is a cultured Roman officer, captured by the Picts and about to be sacrificed. Eithne is a wise...

BWW Review: THE MACBETHS, Citizens Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 03, 2021

Returning from battle, Macbeth hears a prophesy emboldening him to murder and betray. Compelled by his equally ruthless wife, Macbeth ignores his creeping sense of guilt and hopelessness and attempts to hasten the hand of fate, unwittingly ushering in the downfall of them both. ...

BWW Review: GHOSTS, National Theatre of Scotland
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 23, 2021

Download the app, plug in your headphones, and lose yourself in this poetic storytelling experience, exploring the myth of Scotland's collective amnesia of slavery and racialised wealth, of empire and identity....

BWW Review: DISTANCE REMAINING
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 15, 2021

From the producer and writer behind smash-hit Islander The Musical comes Distance Remaining - a collection of three soaring theatrical stories made for the screen starring Karen Dubar, Reuben Joseph and Dolina MacLennan....

BWW Review: MEET JAN BLACK, Gaiety Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 03, 2021

A new comedy that takes Year of the Rona and replaces it with Year of the Jan. It’s a show for anyone who wanted to run down the street screaming NO every time we had another zoom call to make; for those who saw the families on Gogglebox more than their own; and for all us who want to put that last ...

BWW Review: FIRST PIANO ON THE MOON, Online @ Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - March 14, 2021

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet Mozart? Fans of the prodigy and those vaguely familiar with one or two of his pieces are sure to enjoy the adventures of pianist and storyteller Will Pickvance in his show, First Piano on the Moon....

BWW Review: RAPUNZEL, National Theatre of Scotland
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 22, 2020

“You all know the story of Rapunzel, right? That lassie with the long hair who’s been trapped in her lockdown tower for what feels like forever. The lassie who’s sitting there like a loon waiting for some Prince will come along and save her. Well, think again....

BWW Review: A GAMBLERS GUIDE TO DYING, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 21, 2020

Having played to sell-out audiences when it premiered at the Traverse Festival – winning a Fringe First and the Holden Street Theatre Award – A Gambler’s Guide to Dying has since been performed around the world....

BWW Review: ALI THE MAGIC ELF, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 17, 2020

This Christmas, Tron Theatre Company is delighted to bring back the much loved, Ali the Magic Elf – as a live show captured on film for viewing at home. Ideal for little ones aged 3-8 years and their adults, the show is written and directed by Tron Theatre’s Artistic Director Andy Arnold and is a wo...

BWW Review: OH YES WE ARE!, Perth Theatre
by Fiona Scott - December 13, 2020

Perth Theatre sadly can’t have audiences along to its annual pantomime this year but they have come up with a fun alternative show via Zoom. Audiences can watch and join in with Oh Yes We Are!...

BWW Review: THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
by Fiona Scott - December 09, 2020

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Macrobert Arts Centre have collaborated to bring audiences a fun Christmas show to enjoy at home called The Magic of Christmas....

BWW Review: HIGH MAN PEN MEANDER, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 10, 2020

High Man Pen Meander is a thrilling virtual promenade show around and about the Tron Theatre, where the walls will echo with the voices and sounds of Glasgow’s most famous bard, Edwin Morgan....

BWW Review: PETRICHOR, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 05, 2020

A world where every single day is exactly the same. PETRICHOR is a dystopian reality, where every moment is muted, managed and monochrome. Nothing bad ever happens. Nothing good does either....

BWW Review: VANA at CD Release
by Barry Lenny - October 25, 2020

Ross Ainslie is one of Scotland's most beloved musicians....