Theatre

Set in and around ā€˜windy Troy’, Chris Hannan’s re-imagining of ā€˜The Iliad’ opens bathed in a sunshine that…
Oedipus is alive and well and living in Morayshire.
Everyone (juist aboot!) knows the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, an old English tale about a poor widow…
Paines Plough was founded in 1974 over a pint of Paines bitter and is now the national theatre of new plays,…
In 1987 the Edinburgh International Festival presented the world premiere of Iain Heggie’s play, A Wholly…
Who gets to decide who lives and dies? ā€œNameless, faceless ā€œgodsā€ around a conference table?ā€ asks Breakfast…
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is said to be the only epic English novel to challenge comparison…
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life it is all too easy to forget who you are and where you’ve come from…
A personal journey of discovery round WWI Dundee.
There’s an odd thing that happens in this city when the sun comes out. It really does rub me up the wrong…
Once upon a time there was a man called Charlie whose surname had been so difficult to pronounce that it…
It’s a somewhat down-at-heel and down-in-the-mouth Cupid (Mart Müürisepp?) - the reason for uncertainty…
The penultimate play in this season’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint  series of writing from the Arab world is…
The Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival is only in its third day and already in full swing going by the…
Where better to stage a show set in the imagined frozen north than the less than cosy main hall that is…
A gentle light shone on a life as it shrinks to smallness.
ā€œChance rules my lifeā€ comments Amanda to Victor, on the first night of their honeymoon. ā€œIt was chance…
As part of Edinburgh’s GLOW Festival 2018, the graduating students of Performing Arts Studio Scotland return…
One hundred years on from the Great War we find ourselves in another age of political uncertainty.
Mary of Guises’ lassie, Mary Queen of Scots, is probably the most romantic person in British history,…