Bard in the Botanics 2023
The Scotsman 13 June 2023 For all the popularity of Bard In The Botanics, Glasgow’s al fresco Shakespeare festival, the company behind it could not be accused of pandering to…
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Guardian 8 June 2023 It must be tempting for an actor playing Blanche DuBois to be unhinged from the start. Once they know the emotional battering the character is…
Meghan Tyler on Bloodbank
The Scotsman 6 June 2023 Meghan Tyler doesn’t do things by halves. They made their full-length playwriting debut in explosive style with Crocodile Fever, a Fringe hit for Edinburgh’s Traverse…
Childminder
The Scotsman 29 May 2023 Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, Cal MacAninch started to hallucinate. The Trigger Point actor was in the midst of rowing the 3,000 miles…
Gypsy review
The Guardian 29 May 2013 There’s something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Bertolt Brecht’s play, in which a woman trades her way through the 30 years’ war…
Dear Billy review
The Guardian 19 May 2023 There is an air of Nick Park’s Creature Comforts about Gary McNair’s “love letter” to Billy Connolly. The performer builds his joyful one-man show from…
Anna Karenina
The Guardian 18 May 2023 It must be Saturday because Anna Karenina and her husband, Alexei, are having sex. The act is passionless and mechanical. They are fully dressed, the…
Dear Billy
The Scotsman 9 May 2023 Gary McNair likes a long subtitle. The one he has come up with for his latest one-man show is A Love Letter To The Big…