Irene Brown
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 – The Government Inspector
✭✭✭✭✩ Hilarious and vicious:
Timeless and timeous comedy from the redoubtable Communicado in this latest version of Nikolai Gogol’s classic tale of corruption, produced in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
Review: Chapel Street/Bitch Boxer
✭✭✭✭✩ Fast and furious:
Fast, furious and full of fancy footwork, this double bill from two fresh, award-winning English companies has the high impact immediacy only delivered by the young.
Review – Slick
Slick by name and slick by nature, Vox Motus’ outrageous and anarchic production arrives at the Traverse as a tremendous finale to this year’s Manipulate Festival.
Review – Within This Dust
9/11 – two numbers that have become a universal shorthand for disaster, shock and human tragedy. Two numbers that come to mind as Scottish dance company, smallpetitklein, perform their acclaimed two act piece Within This Dust as part of the Traverse’s five day Autumn Dance Festival.
Review – The Authorised Kate Bane
Guest Review by Irene Brown in the Annals on Ella Hickson’s The Authorised Kate Bane, produced by Grid Iron.
Review – The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam
Æ guest reviewer Irene Brown on Random Accomplace’s The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam – “This is a Kerpow! of a show dealing with love, death, grief, loss and trying to be ‘normal’, whatever that is.”
