 Tripping the White fantastic
WE already knew White could do no wrong, but we never imagined the Catherine Wheels two-hander would become the must-see show for the celebrity set. The CATS award-winning show is pitched at toddlers, but in the audience at the start of the run at the New Victory Theatre in New York were the very grown-up Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber and Sarah Jessica Parker. Apparently, the Sex and the City star said it was one of the best things she'd ever seen and, in that, we can only agree with her. After the Big Apple, the show has a run at the Southbank in London before a three-city tour of Australia (including the Sydney Opera House). Then it'll squeeze in a run in Wellington, New Zealand before a three-month UK tour. (Pic: Douglas McBride)  Everything wins
CONGRATULATIONS to actor-turned-playwright David Ireland who is the winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award for best new play for an emerging writer. He picked up the £10,000 prize for Everything Between Us, staged by Northern Ireland's Tinderbox in Belfast, Glasgow and America. The same play also won the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Drama Award. Ireland, who trained at the RSAMD and has been seen on stage at Oran Mor, Dundee Rep, the Traverse and the Citz, is playwright in residence at Belfast's Lyric Theatre. Ireland is pictured opposite Lesley Hart in Magnetic North's Wild Life. On the subject of awards, the winners of the first Tom McGrath Maverick Award will be announced on Monday.  Found in translation
GAELIC speakers have already enjoyed Iain Finlay Macleod's Atman when it toured the Highlands in a production by Tosg. To see it in English, however, you'll have to travel to London where the Finborough Theatre is staging the premiere in that language from 6 November. The magical realist two-hander is about a world in which every language has been mapped and now the libraries are starting to keep track of every story. Pictured is Macleod's Somersaults for the National Theatre of Scotland (pic: Drew Farrell). OPENING SOON 27, NTS, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, Oct 21–Nov 12 Whisky Galore – A Musical!, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Oct 21–Nov 12 McAdam’s Torment, A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Oran Mor, Glasgow, Oct 24–29 Spain, Glasgay! , Citizens, Glasgow, Oct 25–Nov 12 Ch Ch Changes, Glasgay! , Citizens, Glasgow, Oct 25–Nov 12 Burke, West Port Productions, the Vault, Edinburgh, Oct 26–29 Dark Matter, Vision Mechanics, on tour, Oct 26–Nov 25 Strange Hungers, Fish and Game, Arches, Glasgow, Oct 27–29 LAST CHANCE TO SEE The Salon Project, Untitled, Traverse, Edinburgh, Oct 10–22 Baby, Baby, Dundee Rep, on tour, Oct 12–22 Love Hurts, Random Accomplice, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Oct 18–22 |  | |
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18 October The Guardian By Leo Butler. A Play, a Pie and a Pint/Paines Plough review. 
17 October 2011 The Guardian An Untitled Projects review. 
14 October 2011 The Guardian By Matthew Lenton. A Vanishing Point review. 
10 October 2011 Northings By JC Marshall. A Visible Fictions review. 
7 October 2011 The Guardian By John Clancy. An Occasional Cabaret theatre review. 
4 October 2011 The Guardian Calum's RoadBy David Harrower (from the book by Roger Hutchinson). A Communicado/National Theatre of Scotland review 
4 October 2011 Northings By Gerry Mulgrew (adapted from stories told by Duncan Williamson). A Communicado/National Theatre of Scotland review 
28 September 2011 Northings By Hamish MacDonald. A Mull Theatre review. 
23 September 2011 The Guardian Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped OffBy Liz Lochhead. A Royal Lyceum Theatre review. 
22 September 2011 The Guardian By Ena Lamont Stewart. A National Theatre of Scotland review. |
