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Passing Places
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Citizens Theatre / Dundee
- 23rd Apr, 2018
A road movie, according to Wikipedia, is “a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip,” during which “the hero changes, grows or improves over the cou…
Three Sisters
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Citizens Theatre / Perth Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2018
“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a …
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre
- 14th Feb, 2018
It’s 36 years since Andrea Dunbar’s breakthrough play announced the all-too-brief flowering of a new writing talent – “a genius straight from the slums,” as the Mail on S…
Travels With My Aunt
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th May, 2017
This is a homecoming, of sorts; the revival of a play, first performed at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre back in 1989, which subsequently enjoyed successful productions in the West …
Hay Fever
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre / The Lyceum
- 16th Mar, 2017
Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c…
Hansel and Gretel
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2016
Scottish writer Stuart Paterson now has a back catalogue of sufficient scale to warrant a revival or two; his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is curre…
The Rivals
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 7th Nov, 2016
First performed in 1775, Sheridan’s The Rivals remains surprisingly relevant, not least thanks to its inter-generational conflict.
This Restless House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 3rd May, 2016
Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H…
Richard Herring: Happy Now?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 21st Mar, 2016
His 20’s were a fist of fun, his 30’s spent deciphering the intricacies of Big Cook and Little Cook’s business partnership, and then, oh fuck!, he was 40.
Blackbird
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 29th Feb, 2016
The Citizens’ Theatre’s new production of David Harrower’s Olivier Award Winning 2005 play Blackbird is an engaging and thought-provoking piece of theatre.
Endgame
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th Feb, 2016
“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
Rapunzel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th Dec, 2015
Like most of Scotland’s producing theatres, the Citizens Theatre does not, as a matter of principle, “do” panto.
Lot and his God
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2015
“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room.
Into That Darkness
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 22nd May, 2015
Franz Stangl oversaw the deaths of almost a million people during the fourteen months he was Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Fever Dream
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 15th May, 2015
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
Rum and Vodka
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th Mar, 2015
Rum and Vodka, the 1992 debut play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson, is a simple and effective one man show.
Filter's Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Vault Festival
- Multiple Venues
- 25th Jan, 2015
The “Scottish Play” is among Shakespeare’s shortest, but for critically acclaimed theatre company Filter to edit it down to barely more than 90 minutes, without missing an…
Slope
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 18th Nov, 2014
There’s a moment in Pamela Carter’s play Slope when the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, ensconced in a seedy London flat with his young lover Arthur Rimbaud, fears t…
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 26th Sep, 2014
Director Dominic Hill’s new production of Shakespeare’s most popular play takes the radical step of giving us a Hamlet who is essentially the villain.
1984
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 17th Sep, 2014
When a work of fiction becomes so iconic a cultural “classic” that it’s known and understood by people who have never read it, it’s unsurprising that a few inaccuracies cre…
The Libertine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Bristol Old Vic / Citizens Theatre
- 10th May, 2014
“You will not like me,” insists John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, at the start of The Libertine; not so much presented an unreliable narrator, more the self-created bad …
The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 15th Apr, 2014
When the Glasgow-born poet, playwright, song-writer, musician, cartoonist, humorist and story-writer Ivor Cutler died in March 2006, the nation’s obituarists remembered an “una…
Twelfth Night
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Citizens Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2012
Twelfth night is a time of chaos, mess and topsy-turvy.
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