Theatre, Reviews, Issue 652

My Name is Rachel Corrie

Verbatim theatre, while powerful, can also feel very ephemeral, bringing a sense of immediacy to performance through eye-witness accounts of events, but without much of a life beyond that particular moment in history. Ros Philips’ production of My Name…

Equus

Peter Shaffer’s endlessly revived classic about a troubled boy who blinds four horses and the psychiatrist who treats him is an odd mix of compelling mystery and disarming theatricality that frequently runs the risk of getting bogged down in its own…

Scottish Dance Theatre: NQR & The Life and Times of Girl A

If it seems a little noisy in Dundee at the moment, it’s because there’s some serious groundbreaking going on there. Under the forward-thinking eye of artistic director Janet Smith, Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is producing work which forces us to alter…