Theatre, Jen Bowden
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New David Greig play Found at Sea follows two 50-something men sailing to island
22 Jan 2013
Play features work by Andrew Greig and singer Rachel Newton
David Greig is on an island, but his vista of the Manhattan skyline is a mile away from the deserted setting of his latest production, Found at Sea. ‘In the midst of life there’s a point where you have to cast off,’ he says, ‘and this is about what…
Farmhouse
17 Oct 2012
Psychological thriller-cum-genre mixing semi-fairytale let down by a disappointing script
Farmhouse, the latest production from Edinburgh-based theatre company Siege Perilous, opens with Anthony, and his pregnant partner Claire, seeking help from a nearby farmhouse when their car breaks down in the country. After helping them patch up the…
Actor Blythe Duff takes the lead role in Rona Munro's Iron
15 Oct 2012
The Taggart star is to play a convicted murderer who is visited in prison by her daughter
After 21 years as DS Jackie Reid on the TV series Taggart, now Blythe Duff is on the other side of the prison walls playing inmate Fay in Rhona Munro's drama Iron. Though, she insists, her choice of genre is nothing more than coincidence; 'I wouldn't…
People Like Us
9 Aug 2012
An A-grade for effort, but sadly Savage Theatre fails to hit the spot
Young company Savage Theatre have brought a beast of a play to the Fringe this year. With its harrowing subject matter, tempestuous characters and broken dreams, People Like Us should be a gripping and engaging drama. Young lovers Simon and Stacey…
The Price of Everything
8 Aug 2012
Entertaining vision of a society built on kindness, by Daniel Bye
Daniel Bye is a man on a mission. From start to finish his performance lecture is out to prove that there are some things you just can’t put a price on. Starting with the lecture, Bye takes to the stage with a slideshow to ponder the price of…
1984
6 Aug 2012
EmpathEyes Theatre's slick, sexy and terrifying adaptation of Orwell’s dystopian tale
Opening with a stream of perfectly timed choreography, half-naked bodies and live music, it’s clear from the outset that this is no generic adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian tale. Winston Smith (Theo Gordon) is a man on the verge of rebellion…
Shopping Centre by Matthew Osborn
5 Aug 2012
Harrowing dissection of everything that’s wrong with society
Devised by comedian-cum-actor/playwright Matthew Osborn, Shopping Centre is more a list of everything that is wrong with society than a drama. Loner Jim lives beneath a shopping centre, preferring the company of furniture and his memories to the…
Stellar Quines' The List, starring Maureen Beattie, examines the female condition
28 Jul 2012
Fringe show charts story of bereaved woman struggling to come to terms with rural living
Actress Maureen Beattie is talking about cake. Not in the way that most women do, about trying to resist temptation, but more about how baking and decorating can be a creative experience. It is a symbol of domestic prowess, but also an outlet for…
Alasdair Gray prepares for a second reading of Fleck - interview
2 Feb 2012
Scots version of Faust myth to be performed at Margins Book Festival
Will Self described you as ‘a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision’, but you say you're ‘a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian’. Which do you prefer as an official description? I don't approve of…
Zach Braff: Ten things you might not know
2 Feb 2012
The star of Scrubs, Garden State and All New People also voices the US Andrex puppy
1 He is the youngest of four children. He has two brothers, Adam and Joshua, and a sister, Shoshanna. His mother and father are divorced and have both remarried. He says he now spends Thanksgiving with his ‘four parents’. 2 He had an ‘American…
