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Jemima Levick discusses Steel Magnolia revival

Jemima Levick on Steel Magnolias revival

The theatre director aims to retain the humour and tenderness of Robert Harling's original script

1 Feb 2012

‘I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special,’ says Dolly Parton as brassy hairdresser Truvy in the 1989 film adaptation of Steel Magnolias. The country singer led a cast of big name Hollywood hitters that included…

Lovesong looks at beginning and end of a marriage

Lovesong looks at beginning and end of a marriage

Frantic Assembly, Abi Morgan, Steven Hoggett and Scott Graham

1 Feb 2012

During its runs in Plymouth and London, Lovesong has had audiences reaching for the tissues in huge numbers. Penned by Abi Morgan (27, The Hour), produced by Frantic Assembly (Beautiful Burnout) and directed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett (the…

Mwana is a new play from Glasgow-based Ankur Productions

Mwana is a new play from Glasgow-based Ankur Productions

Debut play from Tawona Sithole examines culture of Zimbabwe

1 Feb 2012

Mwana is a salad boy. It’s a Zimbabwean joke, what people who live in the country and eat a heavy, starchy diet call the urban lettuce-munchers. Despite this dietary preference Mwana comes to Glasgow to study and Tawona Sithole’s play takes his return…

Melmoth The Wanderer

Melmoth The Wanderer

Stage adaptation of Charles Maturin’s 1820 epic, sardonic shaggy dog

1 Feb 2012

The Northern Irish company Big Telly Productions has a taste for adapting unruly texts such as Spike Milligan’s manic novel Puckoon. Their latest production is an adaptation by Nicola McCartney of Charles Maturin’s 1820 novel Melmoth the Wanderer. An…

Playwright Ishy Din dicusses new play Snookered

Playwright Ishy Din dicusses new play Snookered

Former cabbie creates characters that transcend cultural divides

1 Feb 2012

The latest production from London-based theatre company Tamasha explores the issues faced by young men reaching adulthood and how the choices they make inform the rest of their lives. In Snookered four friends meet for a tense drink on the anniversary…

Samuel Beckett's 'The End' to be adapted by Gare St Lazare

Samuel Beckett's 'The End' to be adapted by Gare St Lazare

Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett adapt absurdist short story

1 Feb 2012

A nameless man, ejected from an anonymous institution, lost in a city. ‘The End’, a short story written by Samuel Beckett in 1954, is one of Gare St Lazare’s favourite pieces of the Irish absurdist’s work. They are well placed to have a preference…

Double Nugget combines shows Marymassacre and Seven Year Itch

Double Nugget combines shows Marymassacre and Seven Year Itch

Random Accomplice take two duet plays on tour

1 Feb 2012

With hits like Little Johnny’s Big Gay Wedding and last year’s Smalltown, Random Accomplice have proved themselves to be one of Scotland’s best-loved theatre groups. Now, they’ve revived 2008’s Marymassacre and 2009’s Seven Year Itch in a touring double…

The Infamous Brothers Davenport

The Infamous Brothers Davenport

Captures excitement of Victorian public séance but makes for unsatisfactory theatre

(3 stars)1 Feb 2012

Some 52 members of the crew on this co-production between Vox Motus and the Lyceum were required to sign secrecy clauses, so it’s no surprise that the show has its fair share of ‘how-did-they-do-that’ moments. In one scene, a table rises from the ground…

Preview of 2012 - King Lear

Preview of 2012 - King Lear

New Citizens Theatre boss Dominic Hill brushes up his Shakespeare

6 Jan 2012

Take on the Citizens Theatre and you take on the past. Any artistic director of the Glasgow institution can only be aware of the building’s history. Opened as the Royal Princess’s Theatre in 1848, it became home to James Bridie’s Citizens’ company in…

The Infamous Brothers Davenport

Playwright Peter Arnott discusses The Infamous Brothers Davenport

Arnott and Vox Motus to resurrect the 19th century American spiritualists

6 Jan 2012

This new show from playwright Peter Arnott and Vox Motus promises to be part Dickens, part Derren Brown. It focuses on real-life American magicians William and Ira Davenport, who in the 1860s were a central part of the spiritualist movement, which first…

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