How it feels: Andrew Edwards reviews a selection of contemporary dance across forms, from installation to interactive performance and film.
Glasgow
12 June 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: BUZZCUT Festival (online)
3-5 June
By Naomi Obeng
Digital ritual: Naomi Obeng writes on a cornucopia of offerings from Glasgow’s DIY live art festival.
3 June 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Take Me Somewhere festival, Glasgow (online)
By Andrew Edwards
Take Me Online: Andrew Edwards reviews a selection of transporting works from Glasgow’s festival of performance and live art.
3 June 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: The Making of Pinocchio at Take Me Somewhere (online)
21 May
By Ben Kulvichit
Material world: Ben Kulvichit reviews Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill’s adaptation of Pinocchio as an autobiographical gender transition allegory.
28 May 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: A Certain Value at Take Me Somewhere (online)
26-29 May
By Maddy Costa
Alternative living: Maddy Costa shares her correspondences with friends about Anna Rispoli and Martina Angelotti’s show about four radical European collectives.
12 February 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Earwig at Tron Theatre, Glasgow (online)
27 January - 10 March
By Tracey Sinclair
Theatre for the cochlea: Tracey Sinclair reviews a varied set of audio-plays produced by sound designer Danny Krass.
11 December 2020
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: High Man Pen Meander at Tron Theatre, Glasgow (online)
8-13 December
By Andrew Edwards
Living architecture: Andrew Edwards reviews a homage to Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan which takes the audience backstage at the Tron.
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 Gà idhlig 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.