Shows at Byre Theatre

Curious Shoes

Review
★★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
12th Jun, 2019

Curious Shoes is a show that's unashamedly dominated by the perceived needs of its target audience, people living with dementia, and those who care and support them.

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

Review
★★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
30th May, 2019

Three, as the song goes, is a magic number.

Nests

Review
★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
12th Sep, 2018

Within a cluttered clearing in some woods that's neither town nor countryside and so somehow feels like nowhere, an unnamed Man (David McKay) sleeps the sleep of the just-finis…

Our Fathers

Review
★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
30th Oct, 2017

It’s mildly amusing to see two grown men briefly falling into a childish bragging-match about their fathers—one a retired Church of Scotland minister, the other a former Bis…

Thingummy Bob

Review
★★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Byre Theatre / The Lemon Tree / The Studio
22nd Oct, 2017

There’s a wonderful clarity to Linda McLean’s short play Thingummy Bob, a firm favourite with Scotland’s leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, Lung H…

Love Song to Lavender Menace

Review
★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
17th Oct, 2017

“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem…

Cinderella

Cinderella is so familiar a story that anyone above the age of 12 might be weary of the annual parade of ‘reimaginings’ attempting to keep it relevant.

Hector (Was So Great A Crime)

Hector (Was So Great A Crime) is based on the true story of the Scottish military hero in the Second Boer War who was brought down by malicious attacks on his good name.

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