‘Pure Dickens’: Christine Irvine writes on Douglas Maxwell’s power-struggle play about a Mod-obsessed asylum seeker and a disillusioned academic.
Christine Irvine
Articles by Christine Irvine
28 October 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: The Monstrous Heart at Traverse, Edinburgh
22 October - 2 November
By Christine Irvine
Family monsters: Christine Irvine reviews Oliver Emmanuel’s dark, tormented play about an estranged mother and daughter.
18 September 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh • National
Review: Solaris at The Lyceum, Edinburgh
12 Setpember-5 October, then touring
By Christine Irvine
Airlock of the heart: Christine Irvine reviews a visually dazzling but psychologically unsatisfying adaptation of the sci-fi classic from David Greig and Matthew Lutton.
10 July 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: The Ugly One at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
4-20 July
By Christine Irvine
Slapstick under a scalpel: Christine Irvine reviews Debbie Hannan’s pastel-plastic production of Marius von Mayenburg’s satire on beauty and fame.
2 July 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Them! at Tramway, Glasgow
27 June-6 July
By Christine Irvine
All change: Christine Irvine writes on the shape-shifting theatrics of Pamela Carter and Stewart Laing’s exploration of change.
21 March 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Interference at City Park, Glasgow
16-30 March
By Christine Irvine
Last year’s model: Christine Irvine writes on attitudes towards technology in National Theatre of Scotland’s trilogy of tech-inflected dystopian shorts.
4 May 2018
Reviews • Edinburgh • National • Reviews
Review: Creditors at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
April 27 - May 12
By Christine Irvine
Angry and childishly misogynistic: Stewart Laing’s new Strindberg adaptation doesn’t challenge itself enough.
9 March 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
The Motherf**ker With The Hat at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
March 1 - March 17
By Christine Irvine
Locked and loaded: the Scottish premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ comedy is “blisteringly enjoyable”.
19 February 2018
Reviews
Review: The Last Bordello at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
February 10 - February 17
By Christine Irvine
Salacious bombast: David Leddy’s obscene homage to Jean Genet might require a reading list.
29 January 2018
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Achilles at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
By Christine Irvine
“Company of Wolves’ micro-exploration of grief and pain seems achingly timely.”
14 July 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: The Lying Kind at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
6 - 22 July 2017
By Christine Irvine
Satirical comment beaten into submission: Christine Irvine reviews the Tron Theatre’s resurrection of Anthony Neilson’s Christmas-time comedy.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Shackleton at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
14-17 June 2017, then touring
By Christine Irvine
Chilling isolation in an untameable wilderness: Christine Irvine reviews Blue Raincoat’s retelling of Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition.
15 May 2017
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
Review: Off-Kilter at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
May 10 - May 13
By Christine Irvine
A characteristically touching return: Christine Irvine warms to Ramesh Meyyappan’s new solo show exploring mental health through physicality and magic.
14 May 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh
Review: Charlie Sonata at the Lyceum, Edinburgh
29 April - 13 May 2017
By Christine Irvine
Christine Irvine discovers Douglas Maxwell’s new work combines “the magic of a Grimm Brothers fairy-tale, with the magic of being fourteen and off your head on peach schnapps.”
14 May 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
9 - 13 May 2017
By Christine Irvine
Colour-telly ambience: Christine Irvine reviews the world premiere of Blood of the Young’s play about a pioneer of electronic music.