Freeway Pro 5.6.3 News and reviews about Scottish theatre http://www.theatrescotland.com/ en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:31:25 +0000 EVERY time Martyn James took to the stage at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, you sensed a tremendous surge of warmth from the audience. There was something about the actor, who died yesterday after a long illness, that people loved. http://www.theatrescotland.com/home.html 390155184340 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:30:01 +0000 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 1945 and was where Giles Havergal, Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald sealed their international reputation during a 34-year reign. http://www.theatrescotland.com/home.html 1001130865098 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:21:30 +0000 IN the theatre is a stage. On the stage is a panelled room. In the panelled room is a wardrobe. In the wardrobe is a music box. Like Russian dolls, these boxes within boxes promise revelations, but provide only further layers of obfuscation. Just as the music box dulls the sound of domestic violence coming from a neighbouring room, so the bigger boxes divert us from the truth about life and death. http://www.theatrescotland.com/home.html 261052920890 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:45:48 +0000 YOU probably heard the fuss kicked up by fans of the Smiths in the run-up to Christmas. They were outraged with department store John Lewis for using one of the indie band’s finest songs, ‘Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want’, as the soundtrack to an advert. What greater insult than using a song of heartbreaking yearning as a way to get people to buy things? If Smiths fans were up in arms, just think how Jacobite sympathisers must have felt about Captain Simon Fraser. http://www.theatrescotland.com/home.html 360548959284 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:39:25 +0000