Living architecture: Andrew Edwards reviews a homage to Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan which takes the audience backstage at the Tron.
Andrew Edwards
Articles by Andrew Edwards
6 November 2020
Reviews • Edinburgh • National
Review: Dot. Dot. Dot. at Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh (online)
1-2 November, then touring
By Andrew Edwards
‘A story without an ending’: Andrew Edwards writes on Daniel Kitson’s account of the pandemic, from within the thick of it.
6 August 2020
Reviews
Review: Everton vs Aston Villa
By Andrew Edwards
“What happens when you take the crowd away?: Andy Edwards reviews a football match that offers a new kind of liveness.
21 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Review: The Best Show in Town
By Andrew Edwards
“It hits me like a thunderbolt – the bright lights, blazing through the window”: Andrew Edwards imagines a visit to Glasgow’s Tron Theatre.
7 April 2020
Reviews
Review: This Thing of Darkness on BBC Radio 4
By Andrew Edwards
“It’s hard to keep listening and even harder to stop” – Andy Edwards recommends a painful, compelling radio drama series.
14 March 2020
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: MAIM at Tron Theatre, Glasgow
11-14 March, then touring
By Andrew Edwards
‘Head above water’: Andrew Edwards reviews Theatre Gu Leòr’s multilingual play about climate crisis and the erosion of the Gàidhlig language.
29 November 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Magic Theatre – [scenes from the unconscious] at CCA, Glasgow
21-22 November
By Andrew Edwards
Andrew Edwards writes on the “exhilaration and fear-induced defecation” of Jian Yi’s ambitious, visually rich multimedia fusion of Butoh and live art.
27 October 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: DADDERS at Dance International Glasgow
22 October, then touring
By Andrew Edwards
Welcome to the Meadowdrome: Andrew Edwards writes on Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver’s participatory show about neurodivergence and family-building.
20 October 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Crowd at Dance International Glasgow
16 October
By Andrew Edwards
Rave speed 0.25: Andrew Edwards writes on French choreographer Gisèle Vienne’s slow motion, dirt-smeared party.
14 October 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: GRIN at Dance International Glasgow
11-12 October
By Andrew Edwards
‘Dances for those who dance them’: Andy Edwards on V/DA’s survey of Afro-Caribbean dance and its radical ‘strategy of refusal’.
3 June 2019
Features • Festivals
Somewhere different, somewhere else
By Andrew Edwards
Andy Edwards writes on four encounters with Glasgow’s Take Me Somewhere, an annual festival of live performance.
14 April 2019
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Drone at the Tron, Glasgow
11-13 April, then touring
By Andrew Edwards
‘Locked in crosshairs’: Andy Edwards on the disorienting experience of watching Harry Josephine Giles’ catalogue of contemporary violences.
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.
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.
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.