Black Watch

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4 Mar 2011

Girl X On tour, 4 March–20 April Brilliant Belgian director Pol Heyvaert, who directed Aalst for the National Theatre of Scotland, hooks up with Glasgow actor Robert Softley for a provocative play based on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl…

Best of a decade: Black Watch premieres in Edinburgh

2 Dec 2009

Every decade, there seems to be one cultural event that shifts the way we Scots look at ourselves, and the way the world looks at us. In the 1990s, there was the Trainspotting juggernaut: book, play, film, tie-in-soundtrack, poster. In the 2000s, what…

To tire of Londoners at the Edinburgh Fringe

Steve Cramer's Festival blog

23 Aug 2009

After Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea, I went to the Assembly bar and drank the tea. I was contemplating which was the more indifferent drinking experience out of these two, when I was cheered by a chance meeting with Candida Benson, an actress whose own…

Gregory Burke: Hoors

30 Apr 2009

Gregory Burke feels more mellow, more at home with himself than the thirtysomething who entered the public domain with the premiere of Gagarin Way in 2001. At that time there was a sense of a man dazzled by the sudden attention the play brought him.

Black Watch

5 Feb 2009

(18) 154min (John Williams Productions DVD retail) FILMED THEATRE There can be little doubt about the power of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an international hit for Scottish theatre unparalleled for a decade. Its story of a…

Black Watch

10 Apr 2008

WORLD TOUR Rothes Hall, Glenrothes, until Sat 5 Apr, then touring While many Scots disagree with the continuing troop presence in Iraq, there remains an undeniable sense of pride in and anxiety for our troops overseas, and it’s this sense of a shared…

Black Watch - John Tiffany

27 Mar 2008

Certainly the most phenomenal success produced by the Scottish theatre for a couple of decades, Greg Burke’s Black Watch has travelled the world since its first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006. New York, Sydney, Los Angeles – it has become…

National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch to Return to New York

28 Feb 2008

The success surrounding The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch shows no signs of abating. The show, written by Gregory Burke and directed by John Tiffany, enjoyed unprecedented success at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and is returning to New York in…

Black Watch conquers the Big Apple

25 Oct 2007

Black Watch, the National Theatre of Scotland’s production which criticises US army tactics in Iraq, has opened to rave reviews in the Big Apple. The New Yorkers taking in the premiere at Brooklyn’s St Ann’s Warehouse were overwhelmed by the hard…

Black Watch to be posted to Australia

21 Sep 2007

Black Watch, the hit play from the National Theatre of Scotland, has been booked for an Australasian tour, following its successful first outing outside Scotland. The award-winning production, which is currently showing at the UCLA Live international…

Black Watch to march across US

19 Sep 2007

Black Watch, the National Theatre of Scotland production which proved a massive hit when it premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, has opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles. It was the first time Gregory Burke’s play had been performed…

News round-up

23 Aug 2007

This year’s if.comedy awards are set to be sprinkled with a little Hollywood gold dust, when actor Christian Slater returns to the Edinburgh Fringe to announce the winner this week. Slater, who brought One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest to the Fringe in…

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Stage Whispers

3 Jan 2007

There’s plenty to look forward to in the year ahead for theatregoers, but perhaps a personal highlight for Whispers would be the revival by the NTS of Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia. This, along with such hits as Black Watch and Tutti…

CATS Awards

3 Jan 2007

AWARDS ROUND UP We’re about at half term for the awards season, with the CATS Awards occurring in early June this year. So far, the chatter among the critics has covered a great variety of work, from grand scale projects to more modest pieces. It’s a…

Brian Ferguson

3 Jan 2007

FACE FOR THE FUTURE He’s not exactly a new face: He’s kicked around the Scottish theatre for three or four years in this reviewer’s recollection, and probably longer, but Brian Ferguson’s 2006 has launched him as a substantial actor on the Scottish…