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Latest articles about Scottish theatre (and other topics)
Scottish theatre blog Occasional thoughts and observations
6 May The Guardian The problem with Nova Scotia is the same problem faced by its central character, Phil McCann.
2 May The Guardian A standard translation of Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes is a clunky thing. The French playwright's Alexandrine couplets sound awkward in English, the rhythms mechanical, the rhymes forced.
1 May The Guardian Edinburgh site-specific company Grid Iron specialises in after-hours trips into half-familiar spaces - airports, department stores, play parks - always immersing the audience in a world somewhere between reality and make-believe.
29 April The Guardian The wanton destruction of rabbits; the murder of three children; maggots beneath the metal plate of a patient's head.
28 April The Guardian John Byrne doesn't read the papers and hasn't had a television for six years, but he does listen to what he quaintly calls the wireless.
27 April Scotland on Sunday "If you're doing anything that's dangerous, don't take these," says Dominic Hill, handing out a pitchfork, rolling pin and axe to Scottish Opera's male chorus.
23 April The Guardian Dario Fo believes productions of his plays should move with the times. It is mo important that an audience today should understand the political point of Trumpets and Raspberries than that they should know the story behind it.
21 April The Guardian "Sometimes the scariest thing can be your own imagination," says the independently minded Rhona as she explains to a golden eagle (by the name of Glen) that the giant crow he is frightened of is actually his own shadow.
20 April Scotland on Sunday She has taken her time about it, but Michelle Gomez is finally learning how to be ambitious.
20 April Scotland on Sunday Chris Hannan is standing at the window of his Granton flat looking out to the Firth of Forth. He is recalling the evening he received the e-mail from Courtney Hodell saying she loved his debut novel, Missy.
18 April Hi-Arts The first one to get naked is not the emperor at all. It's Ramsay, the loveable sheep, whose fleece is sheered off to supply the wool for the laird's new birthday suit.
13 April Scotland on Sunday The Sun also rises – Aberdeen arts renaissance Sitting behind the expansive glass windows in the first-floor restaurant at His Majesty's Theatre, you sense the first stirrings of a cultural renaissance in Aberdeen.
6 April Scotland on Sunday Beyond borders – Jonathan Mills interview The Edinburgh International Festival was conceived as an antidote to war. From today's perspective, its aims sound terribly high-minded.
2 April The Guardian Edinburgh International Festival blog The Edinburgh International Festival programme has just been launched and what distinguishes it is the coherence of the theme that binds it all together.
18 March The Guardian And now, babies, a Jungian drama Gathering in small numbers, the audience enters a mysterious, sculptural box. Inside, they go on a multi-sensory trip, through fabric, wool and towelling.
26 February Hi Arts In shows such as Molly Whuppie, Wee Witches and Green Whale, Licketyspit has quickly earned a reputation as one of Scotland's most polished children's theatre companies.
26 February Variety It speaks volumes about Suspect Culture and Graeae Theater that their first collaboration should be a show about pop music.
26 February Hi Arts You don't expect a play about pop music to be performed in sign language.
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