Stage Archive

"IT'S like Wimbledon," shouts one wag midway through the second half of Jennifer Dick's production of Shakespeare's island-set elegy, as a ground-sheet is dragged across the set after the show is halted two-thirds of the way in once the rain starts.

THE new production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, which opened officially on Tuesday night, really couldn't fail with the Glasgow audience.

When Marie Jones wrote Stones In His Pockets, the boom years in Ireland were still in full swing.

"Considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold," pretty much sums up the start of the 2012 Bard in the Botanics season for artistic director Gordon Barr.

AS the Spice Girls head to the West End with their jukebox musical, director Cora Bissett unveils a lo-fi compendium of after-hours confections which I would be prepared to bet reveals an altogether more fascinating and challenging understanding of contemporary musical theatre.

IN an upstairs hall in Glasgow, loudspeakers are pumping out an infectious mix of African dance music.

In this its ninth production, The Agatha Christie Theatre Company opts for Murder on the Nile, a play which had its premiere in Dundee in 1944 before taking to the West End stage in 1946 at The Ambassadors Theatre (later to be the first home of Christie's theatrical stalwart The Mousetrap).

l Alba Flamenca dance school's annual student show will take place on Saturday at the Churchill Theatre in Edinburgh.

To say that presenting a play called The Tempest, outdoors, in Scotland, a matter of hours after an electrical storm is tempting fate is an understatement akin to saying that Michael Winner is occasionally a bit unpleasant.

We've all been there.

Dominic Hill is looking relaxed.

WHILE setting Shakespeare in a psychiatric unit isn’t a new idea, neither is it uncommon for real life patients in such institutions to construct such elaborate self-destructive fantasies with themselves at their fragile world’s centre.

The elderly couple are in a world of their own, dancing cheek-to-cheek to music only they can hear; the headphones they're wearing make the soundscore a secret.

For some years I seemed to sit at a point of change on the reporting staff of The Herald.