Author: Irene Brown
Review – Junk Food Vampire/Granny was a Rock Star
Green is very much the colour of Citadel Arts Group’s diverse double bill of plays with strong and worthy environmental messages woven through them.
Review – Calum’s Road
Fine, slow-paced energy, permeates this co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and Gerry Mulgrew’s Communicado that tells of a man’s solitary and dogged fight against bureaucracy as he makes the choice between being defeated and being defiant.
Review – The Poor Mouth
Magnificent theatricality marks out this clever touring adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s great satire from Irish company Blue Raincoat, which is at the Traverse and touring to the Tron in Glasgow.
Review – Flâneurs
The attack and mugging of a friend in London, horrified writer and creator Jenna Watt. Even more so, when she discovered that the attack to place in front of many witnesses.
Review – The Bear
Not the amazing dancing bear, but a murdering bear. Or so we are led to believe. A kind of Winnie the Poohdunnit with claws.
Review – Be Silent or Be Killed
A terrorist attack while on a business trip to Mumbai in 2008 forced Roger Hunt to spend 40 hours in his hotel bedroom, while the attackers roamed the building killing all Westerners they found. Irene Brown reviews the play based on true events on Æ
Review – Platform 18
The Arches Platform 18 Award aims to support Scotland’s most exciting theatre makers and offer them the opportunity to stage a funded production at the Arches and Traverse.
Review – The Sash
The play is old but its themes are not beautiful; their colours far from fine.
Rapture’s revival of Hector MacMillan’s play about Scotland’s sectarianism feels like watching the opening of an old and ugly wound.
Review – Quiz Show
★★★★★ Top-of-the-range:
A gaudy, glitzy, tinselled television studio set is the believable backdrop to Rob Drummond’s audacious participatory theatre – the first full production of the Traverse’s fiftieth anniversary season. Full of flashing lights, disco music and gizmos, this is the home of popular quiz show: False!.
Review – Cinderella
Darkly comic, Johnny McKnight’s new musical version of Cinderella for the Royal Lyceum which updates the tale to contemporary Paris, is “slick and funny” according to Æ guest reviewer Irene Brown.