Articles by Joy Watters

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…

Sunshine on Leith

At first blush, it may seem a strange choice for a festive show but this latest incarnation is bang on the money.

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape

In his new work, playwright Peter Arnott takes the audience back to those pre-Brexit, pre-Covid days when Scots were on the verge of voting in the independence referendum.

Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland

He enters resplendent in his tartan jacket, setting in motion sixty minutes of stunningly acute comic observation laced with some telling introspection all delivered with totally e…

The Secret Garden

Pitlochry has the perfect show for all the family this summer with a new stage adaptation of The Secret Garden written by its own artistic director, Elizabeth Newman.

Brief Encounter

The expression in Celia Johnson’s eyes and the thunderous strains of Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Director Elizabeth Newman’s stated aim of empathising with the characters who people Tennessee Williams’ classic 1947 work, allowing for their contradictions, is movingly fulfi…

Gypsy

It’s off to Scotland’s theatre in the hills for the opening of the season with a musical, none other than the 1959 classic Gypsy.

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