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Tandem Writing Collective
- Listing Theatre
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Scotland’s New Writing Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 2nd Apr - 5th May 2022
Established and produced by playwrights, Amy Hawes, Jennifer Adam and Mhairi Quinn, Tandem features a taster menu of brand-new topical short scripts by the three writers, performed…
The Ugly One
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 10th Jul, 2019
At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical.
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.
Scotties
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 11th Oct, 2018
"Best leave history in the history books—get on with living.
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…
Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths
- Listing Theatre
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 3rd - 19th May 2018
“A snake will always find a way in.
Gut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 2nd May, 2018
“In my day, we trusted people.
Showtime from the Frontline
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 24th Feb, 2018
Most stand-up comedy these days is based on the lives of the people standing behind the microphone, albeit reshaped to varying degrees to ensure their material matches the “rule …
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…
One Mississippi
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2017
There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in.
The Coolidge Effect
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 26th Sep, 2017
During the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation, its first Director-General Lord Reith established the BBC’s mission as being to “inform, educate and entertai…
The Lying Kind
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 11th Jul, 2017
“O, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott wrote in his epic poem Marmion, “when first we practise to deceive!” It’s a life lesson we can only hope unfortunat…
Music Is Torture
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Eden Court Inverness / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 23rd May, 2017
“Keep going,” actor Andy Clark says repeatedly to the musicians behind the glass screen in the unsubtly-named Limbo Studio created on stage, ensuring that we find our seats …
Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 11th May, 2017
In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Grain in the Blood
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 3rd Nov, 2016
For at least some of its audience, it’s enough that Grain in the Blood reunites actors Blythe Duff and John Michie—long-time compatriots on STV’s Taggart.
The Silent Treatment
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2016
It has become traditional for Lung Ha Theatre Company – Scotland’s principal theatre group for people with learning disabilities – to present at least one large show every…
International Waters
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2016
David Leddy’s apocalyptic fable International Waters certainly starts as it means to go on; loud and bold, with the memorable image of four gas-masked figures performing a tab…
30: 60: 80
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Tron Theatre
- 7th Mar, 2016
Writer-performer Amy Conway’s new piece takes the form of a verbatim performance of three interviews: one with her mother, one with her grandmother, and one with herself.
The Destroyed Room
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Battersea Arts Centre / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 3rd Mar, 2016
With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and …
Cock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Lemon Tree / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 11th Feb, 2016
In the run-up to Mike Bartlett’s play Cock opening at the Tron Theatre, a lot of people – myself included – clearly couldn’t help have some innocent adolescent fun with …
Ghosts
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 15th Oct, 2015
Megan Barker’s courageous new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts follows the story of Helen Alving as she attempts to arrange funding for a children’s home.
And The Beat Goes On
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Tron Theatre
- 26th Mar, 2015
Glasgow based playwright Stef Smith’s latest play, The Beat Goes On, ushers us into the lives of Lily and Peter, a couple of Sonny and Cher tribute artists who practice in their …
Fleabag
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Soho Theatre / The Garage / Tron Theatre
- 20th Feb, 2015
Unexpected pre-show choice of “Easy Listening” music notwithstanding, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is an exciting theatrical ride, slipping from laugh-out-loud humour to…
When The Rain Stops Falling
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 7th Feb, 2015
Those who don’t know history, according to the Irish statesman Edmund Burke, are destined to repeat it, while the Bible insists more than once that the sins of the father will b…
Cardinal Sinne
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 6th Nov, 2014
There’s a strong whiff of Farce about Cardinal Sinne from the off; only that particular genre, after all, requires quite so many doors in a set—in this case three interior d…
The Gamblers
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 6th Nov, 2014
Nikoli Gogol’s The Gamblers (premiered in 1843) is relatively rarely-performed, at least in comparison with the writer’s most famous work, The Government Inspector.
In My Father's Words
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Tron Theatre
- 2nd Jul, 2014
Louis is one of Canada’s most respected teachers of classical literature.
The Pitchfork Disney
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2014
There’s no doubting that Philip Ridley’s debut play, even now, feels like a strange beast; a modern fairytale of two infantalised and orphaned twins, Presley and Haley, somehow…
Otiz Cannelloni: History of Magic – Abridged!
- Listing Magic
- Glasgow Comedy Festival
- Tron Theatre
- 22nd Mar 2014
A family show about one of the most popular forms of entertainment.
James Bannon: Running With The Firm
- Listing Comedy
- Glasgow Comedy Festival
- Tron Theatre
- 19th Mar 2014
When you go undercover remember one thing, who you are… The film was I.
This Wide Night
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 3rd Apr, 2014
A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t…
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