Lizzie Powell

Same Team – A Street Soccer Story

Same Team – A Street Soccer Story

★★★★☆ Exhilarating

Same Team – A Street Soccer Story, the Traverse’s December production, may be short on tinsel – but in its thought-provoking and frequently exuberant nature, it is peculiarly apposite for the season.

Dec 13 2023 | By | Reply More
The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

★★★★☆ Epic

The Snow Queen at the Lyceum provides thrills, humour and imaginative theatricality. Morna Young’s adaptation (directed by Cora Bissett, with music by Finn Anderson) could not be staged in 2020 for obvious reasons.

Nov 25 2023 | By | Reply More
Football play closes Trav 60

Football play closes Trav 60

Same Team – Street Soccer Story to play Traverse in December

The final play of the Traverse’s 60th anniversary season is to be Same Team – Street Soccer Story, by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, created with the women of Street Soccer’s Dundee Change Centre and inspired by the Homeless World Cup.

Sep 14 2023 | By | Reply More
What Girls Are Made Of

What Girls Are Made Of

★★★★★ Exhilarating

Cora Bissett is nothing short of incredible in her gig-theatre show What Girls Are Made Of. It is full-throttle, high energy and, at points, it really does feel like you are front row at a gig.

Aug 16 2023 | By | Reply More
Thrown (EIF)

Thrown (EIF)

★★★★☆ Substantial

The National Theatre of Scotland’s Thrown, at the Traverse as part of the International Festival, is an intelligent and powerful piece of theatre.

Aug 8 2023 | By | Reply More
Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing)

★★★☆☆ Intriguing

Macbeth (an undoing), by Zinnie Harris after William Shakespeare at the Lyceum, is the latest in a long line of rewritings of Macbeth. While it is undoubtedly thought-provoking, it ends up more perplexing than engrossing.

Feb 9 2023 | By | Reply More
Orphans

Orphans

★★★☆☆ Raucous

Full of comic bravado, the National Theatre of Scotland’s long-delayed musical adaptation of Orphans at the King’s is an attractive but unwieldy beast.

Apr 13 2022 | By | Reply More
The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

★★★☆☆ Visually arresting

The big budget obviously afforded to the adaptation of The Da Vinci Code is put to good use in a stunningly designed and consistently well acted production that bowls along merrily without ever quite coming together as a dramatic narrative.

Apr 6 2022 | By | Reply More
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

★★★★☆ Starry night

There is nothing rushed about Dominic Hill’s compelling new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Scottish Opera at the Festival Theatre until Saturday.

Mar 7 2022 | By | Reply More
Smile

Smile

★★★☆☆ Sympathetic

Smile, Dundee Rep’s football-themed online offering, transfers to the screen to provide a satisfactory record of 2020’s successful play about the legendary Jim McLean.

Apr 17 2021 | By | Reply More