The Stamping Ground, a new Scottish musical produced by Raw Material and Eden Court Highlands started development in 2018 and a fully-fledged production is now touring around Scotland. Weaving the musical catalogue of the legendary band, Runrig, around an original story set in the highlands, the show frames the climate crisis and its impact on a … More THE STAMPING GROUND – REVIEW – KINGS THEATRE GLASGOW
On 6 July 1988, 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen, the Piper Alpha oil platform was engulfed in a series of explosions which killed 167 people. Nearly 35 years on, Aberdeen-based artist and poet, John Bolland, retells and reflects on the disaster in Pibroch. Based around the central question “What would you do if you … More PIBROCH – REVIEW – SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE
The National Theatre of Scotland has reinvented another classic; following the acclaimed success of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur has joined forces again with Michael John McCarthy to bring a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. This version of the so-called ‘swashbuckling rom-com adventure’, co-directed by McArthur and Gareth Nicholls, is running … More KIDNAPPED – REVIEW – THEATRE ROYAL GLASGOW
David Ireland’s dark comedy explores the shadows left by The Troubles. Cyprus Avenue debuted in Dublin in 2016. Ireland’s play follows Eric, an elderly man troubled by his inbuilt prejudices from growing up in Belfast, and his family who suffer at the hands of his bias. The fate of Northern Ireland in the ongoing Brexit negotiations … More CYPRUS AVENUE – REVIEW – TRON THEATRE
