Shows at Platform

The Panopticon

I well remember when Jenni Fagan’s explosive debut, The Panopticon, first appeared in 2013.

Lost in Music

“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else.

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…

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…

Damned Rebel Bitches

Review
★★★
Paul Fisher Cockburn
Scotland
Multiple Venues
13th Oct, 2017

Historically speaking, the original “Damned Rebel Bitches” were—according to the “butcher” Duke of Cumberland—the Jacobite women who marched behind their men in order…

Invisible Army

It’s not every play that starts with a reaffirmation of one of the basic fundamentals of theatre: that things which aren’t true can be imagined, and that what can be imagine…