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review of Woman in Mind, Alan Ayckbourn’s devastating 1985 play starting a wonderful Sheridan Smith with Romesh Ranganathan and Louise Brealey.
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Theatre Royal, Glasgow until March 14. www.atgtickets.com/shows/woman-...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of The Bacchae, Ewan Downie’s new solo version of Euripides’ Ancient Greek classic.
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The Studio, Edinburgh until March 10, then tours until May. companyofwolves.org/projects/the...
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Alan Ayckbourn - Woman in Mind
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From the archive, as Alan Ayckbourn’s play, Woman in Mind, arrives in Glasgow, a 2014 interview when the play was done in Dundee
Theatre Royal Glasgow March 10-14 www.atgtickets.com/shows/woman-...
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review of Sailmaker, Alan Spence’s long neglected play about fathers, sons, grief & change presented by Ayr Gaiety with Beacon Arts Centre Greenock.
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Seen at Beacon. Touring until April 1. thegaiety.co.uk/events/sailm...
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review of Medea, Bard in the Botanics’ touring revival of Kathy McKean’s devastating version of Euripides’ play
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Seen at Traverse Edinburgh & touring throughout March and early April. www.bardinthebotanics.co.uk/productions/...
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Dennis Kelly - Writing Matilda
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From the archive, Dennis Kelly on Matilda the Musical, which returns to Edinburgh Playhouse until March 22, with Glasgow dates in November. tour.matildathemusical.com
Another fairytale in the supermarket. Stash of late 90s/early 00s Chapman mags from a golden age of Scot lit mags, 50p each from the wee charity bookshop in Broughton Road Tesco. Methinks someone is clearing out their cupboards. This is history.
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review of The Legend of Davie McKenzie, Stephen Christopher and Graeme Smith’s new lunchtime play
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A Play, a Pie & a Pint, Oran Mor, Glasgow until March 7
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. March 10-14
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review of Matilda the Musical, Dennis Kelly & Tim Minchin’s glorious adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel
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Playhouse, Edinburgh until March 22 then across the UK, including Glasgow dates in November. tour.matildathemusical.com
As the mighty Isabelle Huppert performs solo as Mary Queen of Scots in the late Robert Wilson’s production of Mary Said What She Said at Adelaide Festival this weekend, a quick chat in the Festival mag with co-director Charles Chemin.
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Leith Depot: People’s Leisure Club: Paradise Palms: Studies in Photography: Embassy be: Hearts Gallery: Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Craigmillar Now @ The Bothy: Dovecot: Custom Lane: Upright Gallery: Pleasance…
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Top 12 Theatre shows to see in Scotland in March. And there is plenty more to see besides…
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review of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, featuring telly’s most cultured copper
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Festival Theatre Edinburgh until March 7; His Majesty’s Aberdeen March 24-28; Theatre Royal Glasgow March 31-April 4 inspectormorseonstage.com
My thoughts in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social on the state of play at Glasgow arts village, Trongate 103, after all cultural tenants received eviction notices from City Property, Glasgow City Council’s arms length commercial property company.
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Instrument of Resistance - Piano Smashers, Droppers and Bangers
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Inspired by Rupert Page & Rob Thompson’s play, Piano Smashers and Raydale Dower’s artwork, Piano Drop, a look at how pianos can cause a commotion en route to Utopia
Here they come… The Nightingales return to Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms with a crunchy five-piece rumble of avant rock country Wicker Man cabaret. Plus, Terry Edwards does The Jesus & Mary Chain, with horns. What’s not to love?
For anyone at the Adelaide Fringe, a quick chat in the Adelaide Festivals mag with Marcel Cole, creator of SMILE: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, an Edinburgh hit in 2025.
The Chapel at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the Migration Museum until March 8. adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/sm...
Oh, hello. Look who’s back. The Nightingales return to Edinburgh this weekend
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Now with extra added string action, plus Terry Edwards blowing up a storm
Saturday night’s alright. Robert Lloyd’s sort-of famous five are here.
Book early…https://tickets-scotland.com/t5146
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of GRIDLOCK, a new play by Kathryn Mincer about a young couple navigating the bumpy highways of a long term relationship.
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Seen at The Poetry Club, Glasgow.
Whichever wag in Sainsbury’s engineered U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For to be playing while I wandered the aisles at 10 0’ Clock tonight searching in vain for a loaf deserves a raise.
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Herald review of Waiting for Godot, the Citizens Theatre’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s classic play, starring George Costigan & Matthew Kelly
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Citizens Theatre, Glasgow until March 14, then to Liverpool and Bolton
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Leith Depot: Studies in Photography: Embassy be: Hearts Gallery:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Craigmillar Now @ The Bothy: Dovecot: Mote 102: Outhouse: Custom House: Whitespace: InSpace: Sketchy Beats: Jazz Bar: Out of the Blue: Campervan Tap Room:
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review of Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door, Milly Sweeney’s new play for A Play, a Pie & a Pint
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Oran Mor Glasgow until Feb 28; Traverse Edinburgh, March 3-7; Lemon Tree Aberdeen March 10-14; Pitlochry Festival Theatre March 18-22
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of (We indulge in) a bit of roll play,Birds of Paradise’s new show seen at Tramway, Glasgow.
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Movin’ on up…
Live at Beacon Arts Centre Greenock today (Sun Feb 22) I’ll be chatting with Katy Lironi & Douglas MacIntyre about their books, Matilda in the Middle & Creeping Bent: A Leap Into the Void as part of Beacon Book Festival, twin tales of a pop/art dynasty. www.beaconartscentre.co.uk/events/dougl...
George Costigan and Matthew Kelly talk in The List about appearing in the Citizens Theatre’s new production of Waiting for Godot.
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Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Feb 20-March 14, then tours to Liverpool and Bolton. citz.co.uk/whats-on/wai...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift, Guy Unsworth’s archly realised stage version of one of telly’s favourite detectives.
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Theatre Royal, Glasgow until Feb 21. www.atgtickets.com/shows/midsom...
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Leith Depot: Upright Gallery: Custom Lane:
Sanki: Inspace: Mote 102: Studies in Photography: Embassy: Hearts Gallery:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Craigmillar Now @ The Bothy: Dovecot: Banshee Labyrinth:
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of Saint Joan, Stewart Laing’s quietly devastating reimagining of George Bernard Shaw’s play.
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Citizens Theatre, Glasgow until Feb 28, then tours Perth, Aberdeen & Edinburgh - www.rawmaterialarts.com/saint-joan
