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Interview: David Nixon - choreographer and costume designer

Interview: David Nixon - choreographer and costume designer

Northern Ballet production of Beauty and the Beast

27 Feb 2012

What made you want to be a choreographer? I became interested in choreography while I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, and started choreographing while I was still a dancer, but became more serious when I took over my first company. I…

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Stuart Paterson's 'children's play' is enjoyable but lacks the energy of true panto

(3 stars)6 Dec 2011

The basic story is so simple it’s mythic: girl meets beast, they fall in love, beast turns into boy. Stuart Paterson’s venerable adaptation is a tad more complicated. There are ugly sisters (as if a titular ugly character weren’t enough), played with…

Caged

New show Caged from Catherine Wheels

Theatre company adapt Beauty and the Beast with a non-Disney outlook

4 Mar 2011

What’s in a name? Seemingly a great deal when it comes to selling a show, as Catherine Wheels theatre company discovered when they started work on their new fairytale adaptation, Caged. ‘We were originally going to call it Beauty and the Beast,…

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Distinctly Scottish stage adaptation eschews typical squeaky clean panto traits

(4 stars)15 Dec 2010

Beauty and the Beast is, as they say, a tale as old as time (and therein lies the last Angela Lansbury joke. Promise.) Refreshingly, Alan McHugh and Guy Hollands’ distinctly Scottish stage adaptation of the classic story retains the most important plot…

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

FESTIVE FAIRYTALE Dundee Rep ensemble’s take on the ultimate love-triumphs-over-adversity fairytale is a bit of a mixed bag. The story takes a while to warm up, with an overlong preamble leaving you longing for the star to hurry up and make his…

Dame on

Dame on: Pantomimes in Scotland 2008

13 Nov 2008

There’s been something of a shift in the pantomime world over the last few years. Traditional pantos – innuendo-laden fairy tales replete with dame and a couple of faces off the telly – are still going strong, but increasingly, theatres have begun to…

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