‘Locked in crosshairs’: Andy Edwards on the disorienting experience of watching Harry Josephine Giles’ catalogue of contemporary violences.
Glasgow
26 March 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Nora: A Doll’s House at Tramway, Glasgow
15 March - 6 April
By Andrew Edwards
‘Before, after and aside’: Andrew Edwards writes on a multi-layered reworking of Ibsen’s classic from writer Stef Smith.
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.
12 March 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Heart of Darkness at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
7-9 Mach, then touring
By Andrew Edwards
‘Constructed in layers before our eyes’: Andrew Edwards reviews imitating the dog’s ambitious, cinematic re-working of Joseph Conrad’s novel.
19 January 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: no + politics or What We Want/Glasgow Edition at CCA, Glasgow
17-18 January
By Lorna Irvine
‘Like watching Trip Advisor glitching’: Lorna Irvine reviews German dance-theatre company Tatraum Projekte Schmidt’s piece on sharing space in contemporary Europe.
3 December 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Mammy Goose at the Tron, Glasgow
By Andrew Edwards
Farting geese and the spirit of Christmas: Andy Edwards reviews Johnny McKnight’s deliriously silly and subversive panto.
17 November 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Estonia Now Triple Bill at the Tramway, Glasgow
13-14 November
By Andrew Edwards
‘Meeting after meeting, difference after difference’: Andy Edwards reflects on a triple bill of Estonian contemporary performance in Glasgow.
28 October 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Gallanach at Tramway, Glasgow
18 October
By Andrew Edwards
Finding the language: Andy Edwards reviews Amy Rosa’s durational work exploring chronic pain and fatigue.
15 October 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: CONCERT at the Tramway, Glasgow
12-13 October
By Andrew Edwards
Dancing shadows: Colin Dunne’s tribute to Tommie Potts’ ‘undanceable’ 1972 album is a meditation on absence and time.
18 June 2018
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: The Reason I Jump at The Children’s Wood at North Kelvin Meadow, Glasgow
Until 23 June 2018
By David Pollock
‘A vivid plea for understanding’: David Pollock reviews a promenade adaptation of Naoki Higashida’s book about the experience of autism.
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”.
21 February 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
Review: Party Politics at Òran Mór, Glasgow
February 19 - February 24
By Lorna Irvine
School gate politics: Lorna Martin makes an assured debut with A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
5 February 2018
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Reviews
Review: Bold Girls at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
January 24 - February 10
By David Pollock
27 years later: Rona Munro’s play’s focus has shifted since its premiere in 1991.
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.”
2 November 2017
Reviews • Glasgow
Review: Infinite Lives at Tramway, Glasgow
26 – 28 October 2017
By Andrew Edwards
Seems to push at the boundaries of your brain: Andrew Edwards reviews Robbie Thomson’s work as part of Sonica 2017.