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Maggie & Me

Review
★★★★
Mark Harding
Glasgow
Tron Theatre
14th May, 2024

Let’s tackle head-on what a younger theatre-goer may think when they see a play called Maggie and Me; “who is Maggie?” is my bet.

The Ugly One

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…

Gut

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Downstairs / 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

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

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.