Articles by Joy Watters

Water Colour

It’s the new season at Pitlochry and it is off to a flying start with the world première of Milly Sweeney’s debut play.

Restless Natives: The Musical

It’s a special year for Perth Theatre as the grand old lady of Scottish theatre celebrates her 125th anniversary.

Mother Goose

Perth Theatre has made a festive name for itself over the years with its traditional panto played out in the perfect setting of its beautiful Edwardian auditorium.

Beauty and the Beast

This year marks a decade of Bard In The Botanics pantos at the Byre as the Glasgow-based company journeys east again with its special brand of festive fun.

Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie is back on stage, looking no’ bad for a spiky-haired loon who first started entertaining the public in 1936 in the cartoon pages of The Sunday Post newspaper.

The Sound of Music

Say the words The Sound of Music and you will often be greeted with a misty-eyed response as people recall their childhood, watching the film with family at Christmas.

The Brenda Line

In the canon of surprising things my mother told me, the fact that the Samaritans used to have designated phone lines for men wanting to use them as sex lines must rank high.

VL

Two figures in matching eye-popping day glo tracksuits burst into the arena.

Chris Grace: Sardines (A Comedy About Death)

Fringe regular Chris Grace returns from the US to muse on death, posing such questions as can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? In less than an hour, he tells of the passing of…

Sense and Sensibility.

The prospect of a new stage adaptation by playwright Frances Poet of Jane Austen’s first novel is an exciting one but ultimately this production falls a little short.

BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical

Better get your tickets quick because this is going to be one big hit once word gets around.

Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed

A co-production between Pitlochry and Firebrand Theatre Company, this new play puts the spotlight on Nan Shepherd, Scottish environmentalist, Modernist writer and poet whose book T…

Footloose

The theatre in the hills is alive with the sound of music as the season begins with not just one but two musicals.

The Snow Queen

Review
★★★
Joy Watters
Edinburgh
Lyceum Theatre
28th Nov, 2023

This new version sees Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale transported to Scotland with a race against time covering the length of the land to vanquish the evil Snow Quee…