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Monks

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 16 Mar-Sat 7

13 Mar 2007

NEW WORK I expect at times we all wonder what life is all about. Beyond all the ceaseless trudging on and on, the struggle with mortgages, the hassles at work, the stress of supermarket queues and so on, there’s surely some greater purpose. Whether…

Ice Cream Dreams

Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 28-Sat 31 Mar

13 Mar 2007

NEW WORK When writer Martin McCardie, currently best-known for his work on Channel 4’s Shameless, was approached to write a play set during the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars of 1983, he resisted the ready-made plot of drug-dealing and unsolved murder. ‘I…

The Unconquered

North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Wed 7 Mar, then touri

(4 stars)27 Feb 2007

NEW WORK Sometimes, as one leaves a theatre, one can already sense the divide within an audience over the play just watched. Torben Betts’ new piece for Stellar Quines is such a case. The bone of contention? In technique, this piece resembles nothing…

Strangers, Babies

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 23 Feb-Sat 17 Mar

12 Feb 2007

NEW WORK It’s pretty easy, when you think about it, to spot the difference between how men and women treat their relationships. Men are driven by ego - the person they go out with is their own business, and just try to tell them otherwise. Women, on…

Risk

Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Now touring

(4 stars)12 Feb 2007

NEW PLAY Whether we’re crossing on red or skydiving for kicks, we live in a world of calculated risk. If we stopped to think about it, we’d rarely leave the house for fear of the consequences. Actually, to stay in the house would only expose us to…

Earfull

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 23-Sat 24 Feb

12 Feb 2007

NEW WORK If you like your theatre fringey, there are few greater assurances of quality than seeing the acronym BAC on the flyer. The Battersea Arts Centre might be in London, but the benefits of this creative hive of the arts have been plain to see…

Risk

Tron, Glasgow, Thu 8-Sat 10 Feb, then touring

29 Jan 2007

NEW WORK If you believe what you see and hear in the media, there are gangs of hoodies lurking around every street corner in Britain these days. In truth, of course, teenagers have always been demonised for the kind of mischief that they get up to.

Do I Mean Anything to You or Am I Just Passing By?

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, run ended

(3 stars)27 Nov 2006

NEW WORK Urban alienation is something so familiar to contemporary experience that we seldom even notice it these days. Yet when in manifests itself in art, there’s something compelling about a close focus on single voices articulating the dilemma of…

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