Living architecture: Andrew Edwards reviews a homage to Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan which takes the audience backstage at the Tron.
Glasgow
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.