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Review: Success/The Séance @ Lyceum New Connections Festival

article thumbnail The National Theatre's New Connections festival of youth theatre concluded at the Royal Lyceum on Saturday night, with Lyceum Youth Theatre providing the first half of a very slick, professional-standard...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Nessa

Review: The Heights/Blackout @ Lyceum New Connections Festival

article thumbnail The National Theatre's New Connections festival of youth theatre continues at the Royal Lyceum this week. Lisa McGee's The Heights, presented by Glasgow's Craigholme School, reinforces a strong...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Nessa

Review: Blackout/The Things She Sees @ Lyceum New Connections Festival

article thumbnail This week the National Theatre's New Connections festival by, for and about young people sets stages alight right across Britain with a mini-season of new plays commissioned specifically to be performed by...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Nessa

Interview: Opera North: The Abduction from the Seraglio: Elena Xanthoudakis

article thumbnail  With Opera North offering a season of inventive takes on traditional opera, our own Jennifer McGregor (Opera queen) decided to interview the feisty Elena Xanthoudakis who is currently performing in The...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Jennifer M

Review: Cats In Paris @ Cab Vol

article thumbnailIn the current turnaround of modern society faux-innocence seems to be gaining favour in rejection of the popular worldliness of the 80s and 90s. This extends to musical aesthetics. Two bands who could be swept up in...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Adam S

Review: Cosi Fan Tutte @ Theatre Royal Glasgow

article thumbnail Cosi fan tutte translates as “that’s what they all do”, or to put it in language we’ve all read a lot of recently, “they’re all at it”. Written in 1790 and transferred in...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Jennifer M

Review: Quadrophenia @ Festival Theatre

article thumbnailIf any one of us tried to break our personalities down into definable traits, the concept of schizophrenia wouldn’t even begin to cover the multiple characters we all possess.  And yet we live in a society so...
+ Full StoryAuthor: Fiona

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    An Apple A Day
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    The last of this sumptuous Play, Pie and Pint season brings us back to the bedroom, but instead of a classy hotel room of Kyoto, it’s a prostitutes boudoir. This…     + Full Review

    Lucky Box
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     Perhaps more than any other art form, theatre has been the vessel for misplaced male rage, or at least the kind with an economic motivation; from the overqualified/unemployed protagonists of…     + Full Review

    Poem In October
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     The idea that your life flashes before your eyes when you die has always been morbidly appealing, but do we know for sure it’s true? The character in this short…     + Full Review

    Kyoto
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    Opening this years a Play, a Pie and a Pint season is David Greig’s second production of a purposed trilogy of two-handed romantic romps. Unlike the musical Midsummer, this…     + Full Review

    The Ching Room
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     “If you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us” quipped late comedian Bill Hicks once, “then go home, take all your CDs…and burn them.” The relationship between drugs…     + Full Review

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