Traverse

Dear Billy

Dear Billy

★★★★★ Joyous

Everyone has a Billy Connolly story. Ask around on any Scottish High Street, and folk will have a story about the Big Yin. Which is both the premiss and the promise of Dear Billy, at the Traverse for three nights only.

May 20, 2023 | By | Reply More
Love The Sinner

Love The Sinner

★★★★★ Masterful

Imogen Stirling does not miss a beat in Love The Sinner, an enthralling fusion of poetry and electronic music created in collaboration with Vanishing Point at the Traverse for two nights only.

May 17, 2023 | By | Reply More
Who Killed My Father

Who Killed My Father

★★★★☆ Compelling

Who Killed My Father at the Traverse mixes the personal and the political thoroughly successfully.

May 12, 2023 | By | Reply More
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It

Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It

★★★★☆     Cone-tastic comedy

Sean and Daro Flake It ‘til They Make It, Laurie Motherwell’s new cone-tastic comedy at the Traverse until Sunday 23 April, is the theatre’s first in-house production in its 60th Anniversary year.

April 16, 2023 | By | Reply More
Stornoway, Quebec

Stornoway, Quebec

★★★★☆ Wild Gaelic Western

Theatre Gu Leòr’s, Stornoway, Quebec, is a wild Gaelic Western, based loosely around the real figure of Donald Morrison, the Mégantic Outlaw, and set in a failing hotel in Quebec.

April 10, 2023 | By | Reply More
Family Tree

Family Tree

★★★★☆ Illuminating

Family Tree, by Mojisola Adebayo, at the Traverse for three nights only, is a word-spitting, poetic and coruscating piece of theatre that brings light to a shameful corner of the scientific world.

April 6, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: The Spark

PPP: The Spark

★★★★☆ Fiery

The Spark by Kathy McKean, the final offering in the current Traverse run of Oran Mor’s Play, Pie and a Pint, is a clever and compelling piece of theatre.

April 5, 2023 | By | Reply More
How Not To Drown

How Not To Drown

★★★★☆ Relentless

How Not To Drown is a moving true story of a young boy’s perilous journey from Kosovo to England, co-written and performed by the man himself. Which, in this ThickSkin and Traverse Theatre Company production, makes for a vital piece of theatre.

March 31, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: Variant

PPP: Variant

★★★★☆ Unsettling

There is a pleasing intransigence to Variant by Peter Arnott, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Oran Mor at the Traverse and Arnott’s fiftieth professionally produced play.

March 28, 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: Write Off

PPP: Write Off

★★★★☆ Magnetic

There is an undeniable force to Aodhan Gallagher’s Write-Off, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint at the Traverse, presented by Oran Mor in association with Dundee Rep.

March 22, 2023 | By | Reply More