La Performance
The Guardian 14 October 2022 What’s not to like? You’ve got Ramesh Meyyappan, the beguiling physical theatre performer who, in shows such as Off-Kilter, has displayed a winning combination of…
Trainspotting Live
The Guardian 12 October 2022 Perhaps you thought Trainspotting was too coy. Maybe you thought Irvine Welsh’s novel was on the restrained side. Yes, it had scenes of drug-addled bed…
James IV: Queen of the Fight
The Guardian 5 October 2022 It’s a cosmopolitan place, the court of James IV of Scotland. In the earthy crucible of Jon Bausor’s set, you hear Spanish, French, Scots, Gaelic…
The Maggie Wall
The Guardian 12 September 2022 There is something unknowable about young Maggie Wall. Perhaps you would call it spiritual. You hear it in the lullaby handed down through the generations,…
One of Two
The Guardian 8 August 2022 The real drama of Jack Hunter’s one-man play kicks in halfway through. After a meandering chat about his childhood, cheery but largely unremarkable, he plays…
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel
The Guardian 12 August 2022 On the back wall there is a notice saying: “Please rinse and sanitise.” Over to the right a poster from Equity, the union for performers…
This Is Memorial Device
The Guardian 17 August 2022 A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic…
Burn
The Guardian 7 August 2022 “And still my motto is: I dare,” says Alan Cumming at the end of his ravishing one-man evocation of Robert Burns. And if the Ayrshire…
Irvine Welsh’s Porno
The Guardian 14 August 2022 For all that the characters of Trainspotting lurked on the perilous fringes, they were at least young enough for the slogan “choose life” to be…
Svengali
The Guardian 6 August 2022 How do you represent male power on stage without replicating the very structures you want to challenge? The solution in Eve Nicol’s absorbing play is…