A strange sort of hope: Andrew Edwards reflects on the Glasgow iteration of this collaborative, international, interdisciplinary artwork.
Glasgow
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 • 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.
21 April 2017
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
Review: Coriolanus Vanishes at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
April 14 - April 22
By Christine Irvine
Lean, mean and theatrically audacious: Christine Irvine is gripped by Fire Exit director David Leddy’s first one-man show in over a decade.
17 April 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: A Machine They’re Secretly Building at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
13- 15 April 2017
By Christine Irvine
*IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR* Christine Irvine reviews Proto-type Theater’s exploration of surveillance technology.
15 March 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: God of Carnage at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Tron Theatre ⋄ 9-25 March 2017
By Christine Irvine
More like a temper-tantrum than a turning-point: Christine Irvine reviews the Tron Theatre’s new production of Yazmina Reza’s comedy.
10 March 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Discourse or Intercourse / Talking & Fucking at Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow
CCA ⋄ 7 March 2017
By Andrew Edwards
“Gently exposes its audience’s attitudes”: Andrew Edwards reviews an immersive performance examining the spaces where people with disabilities are both users and creators of pornography.
6 March 2017
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Avoidable Climbing at Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow
Citizens Theatre ⋄ 2 - 4 March 2017
By Christine Irvine
Putting politics to music: Christine Irvine reviews Drew Taylor’s “cathartic” work as part of the Take Me Somewhere festival.
2 March 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: #negrophobia at Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow
Tramway ⋄ 26 February 2017
By Andrew Edwards
Extraordinary in its range, excess and incision: Andrew Edwards reviews Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s “challenging, necessary and entirely relevant” work as part of the Take Me Somewhere festival.
11 February 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: The End of Things at CCA, Glasgow
CCA ⋄ 7 - 8 February 2017
By Andrew Edwards
The qualities of agony, anxiety and desire contained within endings: Andrew Edwards reviews Company of Wolves’ new work in Glasgow.
26 January 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Sea Wall at Sloans Pub, Glasgow
Sloans Pub ⋄ 22 - 26 January 2017
By Christine Irvine
A deep-tissue massage for your brain muscles: Christine Irvine attends one of Heroes’ intimate stagings of Sea Wall in a Glasgow pub.
11 November 2016
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Secret Show 1 at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Tron Theatre ⋄ 8th - 12th November 2016
By Christine Irvine
Genuinely joyous communal theatre experience: Christine Irvine reviews Blood Of The Young at the Tron Theatre.
24 October 2016
Reviews • Glasgow • Reviews
Review: Grain in the Blood at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Tron Theatre ⋄ 19th - 29th October 2016
By Christine Irvine
Light as frost, but never quite chilling: Christine Irvine reviews Rob Drummon’s taut family drama.
22 September 2016
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
Guest Review: Hiraeth at Tramway, Glasgow
Tramway ⋄ 15th - 16th September 2016
By Rosemary Waugh
Joe Turnbull completes our series of guest reviews with Disability Arts, with Candoco Dance Company and NCA Small Theatre’s Hiraeth at the Unlimited festival in Glasgow.