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Singin’ in the Rain - Long to rain over us

Singin’ in the Rain - Long to rain over us

25 Jun 2009

Anna Millar looks forward to some old-school hoofing in Singin’ in the Rain

Balgay Hill

Balgay Hill

25 Jun 2009

Simon Macallum’s Balgay Hill sets out to celebrate the life and work of the late Dundonian pop star Billy Mackenzie, but the Associates frontman actually remains pretty elusive throughout, and what emerges in the end is a well-intentioned, if somewhat…

Cryptic Nights

Cryptic Nights

25 Jun 2009

New Media Scotland celebrates its tenth birthday with an interactive online, visual art and dance game/play/performance. Yes, we know that’s a whole lot of genres. Follow the tales of two lovers on the @mediascot Twitter stream from Wednesday 24 June to…

New Work New Worlds

New Work New Worlds

25 Jun 2009

The New Writing New Worlds festival at the Arches has become something of a fixture on the Scottish arts scene over the past few years. This year there’s a subtle but important title change to this rough-hewn showcase for developing work. ‘New…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

25 Jun 2009

Glasgow’s West End Festival continues with an adaptation of Ken Kesey’s ground-breaking 1962 novel by dynamic young company XLC theatre. Kesey’s novel focuses on the furious pitch battle between rebellious patient RP McMurphy and the tyrannical Nurse…

Self Help/Respect

Self Help/Respect

25 Jun 2009

Three years after her Fringe debut Pendulum attracted positive reviews, Anita Gallo is staging a new double bill of work at The GRV. Self Help and Respect – directed by Pendulum actor Andy Corelli – were initially written to be performed as separate…

Some Explicit Polaroids

Some Explicit Polaroids

25 Jun 2009

Fledgling Glasgow company Flat Rate theatre revive this 1999 play by Shopping and Fucking enfant terrible Mark Ravenhill for the Ramshorn. The piece, which features a typical ‘in-yer-face’ mix of sex, violence and drug-taking, portrays 1980s political…

This Year’s Thing

This Year’s Thing

25 Jun 2009

It’s been 40 years since the death of Judy Garland and the (arguably unrelated) Stonewall Riots, a violent police raid on a New York bar that’s often seen as the beginning of the gay rights movement. To mark the anniversary, Edinburgh’s foremost LGBT…

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs

25 Jun 2009

Despite none of us really knowing what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the earth, the BBC made a fine attempt at recreating it a few years back. Walking with Dinosaurs took nature documentaries to a whole new level, using scientific research and…

Bard in the Botanics

Bard in the Botanics

11 Jun 2009

There are probably fewer people in Scotland more excited about the Met Office’s predicted heatwave this summer than Gordon Barr, artistic director of Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow’s annual outdoor Shakespeare festival. ‘I’m really keeping my fingers…

Norman Douglas & Company

Norman Douglas & Company

11 Jun 2009

CONTEMPORARY DANCE Norman Douglas isn’t afraid to do his homework. As part of the research for his new triple-bill, the Glasgow choreographer has been digesting some pretty heavy stuff, including a tome on critical theory. ‘It’s taken me a year to…

T[r]APPED

T[r]APPED

11 Jun 2009

DANCE THEATRE With CCTV monitoring our city centres and vast databases intimately acquainted with our shopping habits, you’d be forgiven for thinking Big Brother was more than just a TV programme. Inspired by this over-zealous information gathering…

Vision/Aria

Vision/Aria

11 Jun 2009

VISUAL THEATRE Romantic love, in all its weird and wonderful permutations, has formed the basis for so much theatre, that it is virtually impossible to avoid cliché when taking on this hoariest of subjects. Yet, Palazzo Theatre have come up with an…

Oreet Ashery: Raging Balls & Golani Varanasi

Oreet Ashery: Raging Balls & Golani Varanasi

11 Jun 2009

NEW WORK Even the least articulate among us can suddenly become word-perfect when overtaken by a spasm of rage, often to compelling effect. The performance artist Oreet Ashery is keenly aware of this, and, inspired by the artist David Wojnarowicz’s…

Othello

Othello

(4 stars)11 Jun 2009

OUTDOOR THEATRE You know summer’s finally arrived when the nation’s brave outdoor theatre companies take to the al fresco stage for that all-too-brief window of long days and (hopefully) fine weather. Borders company Shakespeare at Traquair…

The Garden of Adrian

The Garden of Adrian

11 Jun 2009

NEW WORK There can be few performers with the immense personal charm of Adrian Howells. His is a theatrical presence that inspires trust, and deservedly so. Perhaps only Howells could carry off this latest piece of performance, which involves a…

A View From the Bridge

A View From the Bridge

28 May 2009

One of the gifts that made Arthur Miller such a significant dramatic writer was his ability to capture the world of Greek tragedy – on the face of it an unfamiliar theatrical landscape with its dark blood feuds, incest and primal passions – and make it…

Balgay Hill

Balgay Hill - Simon Macallum

28 May 2009

Today we associate Dundee with the enterprising work of Dundee Rep’s ensemble, the world-class art at DCA and the tourist attractions of the City of Discovery. It’s a place the Victoria and Albert Museum can consider setting up a northerly outpost…

Ghosts

Ghosts

(4 stars)28 May 2009

Of the two Ibsen revivals gracing Scottish stages at present, Dundee Rep and the National Theatre of Scotland’s award-winning Peer Gynt appears the more irreverent in its approach to the playwright’s satirical fantasy. On the surface at least, Jeremy…

Manifesto

Life as a cabaret

28 May 2009

Calum Ritchie investigates the low-budget, cross-genre revolution happening on Glasgow and Edinburgh’s cultural scenes That’s not to suggest these nights are homogenous, because each…

Classic Cuts: Medea

Classic Cuts: Medea

28 May 2009

Paddy Cunneen is fast cementing a reputation as the king of lunchtime theatre. Following recent A Play, a Pie and a Pint successes Fleeto and Waltz of the Cold Wind his affiliation with Oran Mor continues with this year’s Classic Cuts season, for which…

Errol White Dance

Errol White Dance

28 May 2009

Like a volcano about to erupt, Errol White is preparing to explode onto the Scottish dance scene. Familiar to audiences from his time with companies such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Phoenix and X Factor, White is finally taking the ultimate step as a…

New Writing: Daisies & Fairy Dog

New Writing: Daisies & Fairy Dog

28 May 2009

Whether due to the success of the Oran Mor’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint series or the effect of the recession on arts budgets, stripped down lunchtime plays are shaking up Glasgow’s theatre scene – and this year’s Fiendish Plot season at the CCA is no…

Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia

28 May 2009

The stage musical adaptation of the film of the landmark album by The Who, about a bloody Bank Holiday weekend battle between the Mods and the Rockers in Brighton at the height of their 1960s rivalry, is told from the point of view of teenage rebel…

Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

28 May 2009

The Strathclyde Theatre Group takes on Shakespeare’s gory early tragedy, Titus Andronicus, which depicts the bloody running battle between the titular Roman general and his mortal enemy, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her devious sons. The production…

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