Theatre, Issue 571
12 articles
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Kate Dickie & Pol Heyvaert
13 Mar 2007
Beyond the news
Whenever a murder occurs, particularly that of a child, there’s often an understandable outcry of grief, sometimes fuelled by sensational media coverage. We can name these unfortunate children as if we ourselves knew them. As part of the news coverage…
Bad Jazz
13 Mar 2007
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 21-Sat 24 Mar
NEW WORK It’s hard not to feel a certain resistance to the term ‘play within a play’ these days. After over 20 years of those pieces which hide behind the terms ‘postmodern’ and ‘meta-narrative’ in order for members of the profession to talk about…
Hughie
13 Mar 2007
The Arches, Glasgow, until Sat 17 Mar
NEGLECTED CLASSIC An ageing New York gambler lords it over a luckless hotel night clerk, spinning unlikely tails of his continuing prowess in gambling and womanising. Both the gambler and the hotel have seen better days. Such is the scene in this…
Strangers, Babies
13 Mar 2007
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 17 Mar
NEW WORK Does our behaviour depend upon where we’re from, or where we are now? That hoary old chestnut, the nature versus nurture debate still rages on in every field of human knowledge. So it is that while it emerges quite plainly that the woman at…
Scottish Dance Theatre
13 Mar 2007
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Tue 27 Mar
MODERN DANCE Diversity is fast become the calling card of Scottish Dance Theatre. Visiting Edinburgh as part of its UK tour, the company will perform three works which, although choreographically distinct, have one common factor - an emotional…
Monks
13 Mar 2007
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 16 Mar-Sat 7
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…
*Hitlist
13 Mar 2007
Hitlist
The Wonderful World of Diisocia Anthony Neilson’s brilliant commentary on mental illness, looked at from the points of view of both the sufferer and those around her is as richly comical as it is moving. The NTS is to be congratulated on its revival of…
Europe
13 Mar 2007
Dundee Rep, Wed 4-Sat 7 Apr
REVIVAL Reviving a play that is old enough to merit revisiting but too young to be called a classic carries a certain risk. What seemed timely and topical a decade ago might now seem tired and trite. The remarkable thing about David Greig’s Europe…
Ice Cream Dreams
13 Mar 2007
Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 28-Sat 31 Mar
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…
Michael Clark Dance Company
13 Mar 2007
Tramway, Glasgow, run ended
MODERN DANCE Bare breasts and the Sex Pistols - it could only be Michael Clark. Over the past 20 years, Clark has invented his own mini genre; a style of dance that pushes boundaries, dancers’ abilities and audience expectations. Performed as part…
The Wonderful World of Dossocia
13 Mar 2007
Seen at Tron Theatre, Glasgow, run ended. Now tour
REVIVAL As children we’re enthralled by adventures to far off lands with tin men, talking animals or witches and wizards, where good overcomes evil. Anthony Neilson’s play appeals to both our childhood imaginings and our adult sensibilities. Lisa…
News - Gaelic culture
12 Mar 2007
Opera for the masses
Words: Allan Radcliffe One of Scotland’s most spectacular locations is to be celebrated in a unique European theatre production. Five simultaneous performances of St Kilda - A European Opera (Mac-Talla Nan Eun) will take place in France, Belgium…
