Writers: Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott Director: Ian Talbot It’s been a while since the Priscilla bus has rolled into town and fans will be pleased to know that it’s back for a 30th anniversary tour. It’s still chock full of feathers, sequins and fabulousness and the spirit of the original is alive and well in this uplifting new production. Adapted from Stephan Elliott’s ground-breaking, Oscar-winning, 1994 film, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical tells the story of two drag queens and their transgender pal, who get together to honour a booking in Alice Springs, a…
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The Reviews Hub - Scotland
The Scotland team is under the editorship of Lauren Humphreys. The Reviews Hub was set up in 2007. We aim to review all professional types of theatre, whether that be Commercial, Repertory or Fringe as well as Comedy, Music, Gigs etc.
Writer: Samuel Beckett Director: Dominic Hill Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece of the absurd, Waiting For Godot returns in a new production for the first season of the newly rebuilt Citizens Theatre Vladimir ( George Costigan) and Estragon (Matthew Kelly) famously ruminate on the meaning of human existence while waiting for a man they do not know who never comes. Beckett’s work has all the hallmarks of the aftermath of World War II, both in subject and in staging, and here, Dominic Hill’s production plays out on Jean Chan’s desolate, bombed out wasteland with that famous, leafless, lifeless tree, firmly centre stage,…
Daniel Foxx’s debut show introduced him as a puckish type, toying with a villainous persona. But while he remains naughtily arch in this follow-up, he’s a more humbled figure, the demise of his long-term relationship re-casting him in the film of his life as a more pitiful, supporting character. How Lovely’s central conceit is that the committed rom-com fan has allowed himself to be swept up by their promises, allowing the awesome, seductive power of Julia Roberts and Colin Firth’s turn as Mr Darcy to blind him to relationship realities. Foxx is piqued by scepticism and snobbery about the genre,…
Writer: Agatha Christie Adaptation: Ken Ludwig Director: Lucy Bailey A new production of Agatha Christie’s thriller Death on the Nile, has sailed into town, and if the size of the audience is any indication, the appetite for the work of Agatha Christie shows no sign of abating. The play is based on the queen of crime’s classic 1937 novel which itself started life as a play that Christie called Moon on the Nile. Once written, she decided it would do better in book form. She only resurrected the play version in 1942 when she was in the midst of writing…
Writers: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields Director: Matt DiCarlo The Cornley Drama Society are at it again, much to the delight of audiences up and down the UK. This time they’ve got their mitts on Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol, but this is, as you would expect, not your ordinary festive classic. In the hands of the kings and queens of chaos, this is unlike any other re-telling you’ve ever seen. It’s now on stage, on the set that taste forgot, in a different version from the 2017 BBC TV production. Every Christmas trope you could…
Original Writer: Caroline Graham Adaptation for the stage: Guy Unsworth Director: Guy Unsworth The success and popularity of Midsomer Murders cannot be understated. Beginning life in book form in 1987, it premiered on British TV in 1997, opening with Caroline Graham’s first book The Killings at Badgers Drift, the story that here, kicks off Midsomer’s new stage incarnation. With 144 episodes in the can over 29 years, fan expectations are high as evidenced by the round of applause as the theme tune starts to play. Designer David Woodhead has managed to realise the multiple locations, evoking the cosy and benign…
Writer: George Bernard Shaw Adaptation: Stewart Laing Don’t wait for your time. In Stewart Laing’s clinical reimagining of Saint Joan, defiance isn’t just a historical footnote—it’s a digital-age danger. Staged in the Citizens Theatre studio, this production utilises Bernard Shaw’s un-filmed screenplay to trade historical spectacle for a cold, modern, and often puzzling lens. It is a clinical, stripped-back dissection of power. For much of the 90-minute run, the directorial choices feel intentionally alienating. A blinding, uncomfortable film-set light floods the auditorium, stripping away the safety of the dark seating bank and keeping the audience exposed. iPhones emerge from crossbody…
Composer: Dai Fujikura Libretto: Harry Ross Director: Satoshi Miyagi Conductor: Stuart Stratford The Great Wave Off Kanagawa is one of the world’s most recognisable works of art: prints. posters, mugs, magnets, and a whole host of goods, from tacky to tasteful are adorned with the image, but little is known about the artist himself. Long-time collaborators, London-based, Japanese composer Dai Fujikura and Scottish librettist Harry Ross, have taken the creator of the iconic, 1830s wood block print, revered artist Katsushika Hokusai as it’s inspiration for their world premier production The Great Wave. This bio-opera explores the almost unbelievable personal hurdles…