Stage

  • Credit to ballet company for posing critical questions
    25 May 2013

    On Wednesday, in the company of an enthusiastic and very large audience at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre, I caught up with Scottish Ballet's rebooting of Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling, an exceedingly contemporary take on La Sylphide which those who had seen it at Glasgow's Theatre Royal insisted I must not miss.

  • Sutra Edinburgh Festival Theatre
    20 May 2013

    Dance

  • Tramway, Glasgow Rite Of Spring: Revisited
    20 May 2013

    History doesn't really repeat itself with this buoyantly multi-faceted project – unless you count the riot of new ideas and emerging talents as a nod in the direction of the now-legendary 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (choreographed by Nijinsky, designed by Nicholas Roerich.)

  • A very model of a modern G&S
    19 May 2013

    Given the obvious opportunity among the peg legs, neckerchiefs and cutlasses, the absence of a parrot was passing strange.

  • As It Is, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
    16 May 2013

    On a bare stage, seated beneath striplights, actor Damir Todorovic is wired up to a lie detector.

  • #sleeptightbobbycairns, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
    16 May 2013

    What would happen if the revolution became reduced to a series of letterwriting parties that gathered the converted together under the guidance of the sort of perma- grinning cheerleader normally the preserve of high street charity muggers?

  • Preview: Sutra
    16 May 2013

    Most choreographers meet the challenge of making a new piece by heading into the studio and working through their ideas with the dancers – usually against the unwelcome pressure of a deadline.