Siobhan Redmond
The High Life
★★★★★ Flying
Reviving a 30-year-old sitcom as a stage musical might seem a safe bet, or an exercise in nostalgia. This is far from the case with The High Life. The touring production is vibrant, joyous and utterly hilarious.
The High Life hits the high notes
“U Fur Coffee?”
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson’s The High Life is to get a musical makeover in 2026, after thirty years in the waiting lounge in a new production from the National Theatre of Scotland.
My Light Shines On: Ghost Light
★★★★☆ Magical:
Ghost Light provides a poignant reminder of what we are all missing in this fallow year of live performance in Edinburgh during August.
Snowflake by Mark Thomson
★★★☆☆ Ambitious:
Snowflake from The Network – The Pleasance Theatre Trust’s partnership with the Scottish Drama Training – is an ambitious exploration into the lives of Generation Y.
Thon Man Moliere
★★★★☆ Excellent performances:
Beautifully staged and excellently acted, the Lyceum’s premiere of Liz Lochhead’s Thon Man Moliere is a charming and largely compelling production.
Thon Woman Lochhead
World premiere for new Lochhead at Lyceum:
The world premiere of Thon Man Moliere, Liz Lochhead’s play about the life and times of the playwright Moliere, opens at the Lyceum this week.
Step into the unknown
Performing Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit:
The stage was set, the house was in and the house lights down. It was time, now, for the next performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit.
Dunsinane
★★★★☆ Subtlety finds solid ground
David Greig’s Dunsinane, a ‘continuation’ of Macbeth with nods to contemporary events, is once again on tour thanks to the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and if anything it seems like an even better play than it did last time round.
Traverse’s Hill directs Radio 3’s Seagull
By Thom Dibdin The Traverse’s artistic director, Dominic Hill, has directed Chekhov’s The Seagull for BBC Radio 3, with Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins heading up a cast of leading Scottish actors.
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