David Greig
Lanark
✭✭✭✭✩ The unstageable, staged:
A world of hugely entertaining possibilities is on display in Lanark. The co-production between the Citizens Theatre and the International Festival has all of the excitement and weight of a capital-letter Theatre Event.
Vote Culture!
Polling day production:
Culture is on the agenda on polling day, with the Traverse staging a pair of Two Minute Manifesto performances that attempt to capture the spirit of debate.
Outlying Islands
✭✭✭✩✩ Too grounded:
A fascinating exploration of human impulses lies behind Outlying Islands at the Traverse, but the uneven quality of some of the production means that it falls short.
The Yes/No Plays
✭✭✭✩✩ Twitter gold
Sparkling with internal wit, David Greig’s translation of his Twitter Plays to the stage is a piece of event drama which marks Referendum Day with style, although with not quite the even hand some might think.
Play for today
The @YesNoPlays @TraverseTheatre cast:
Casting has been announced for David Greig’s The Yes/No Plays, created on Twitter, which are transferring to the Traverse for two live shows today.
Referendum week theatre
Drama on stage as Scotland decides
The Traverse leads the way with referendum-orientated theatre in the final week before polling on Thursday, although there is a celebration of the Scottish written word from the NTS and a spot of post-referendum experimentation down at the Village Pub on Friday.
Greig kickstarts funding after closure
Playwright David Greig, one of the 50 signatories to the letter calling for Underbelly not to programme Israeli state-supported Incubator Theatre at the fringe, has reacted to this week’s cancellation of the show with a new Kickstarter fund for Israeli and Palestinian theatre makers.
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart – Review
Playful and proficient, David Greig and Wils Wilson’s celebrated production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart for the NTS continues to delight audiences and is well worthy of any compliments it has been paid.
Five Minute Theatre returns for referendum debate
Proposals for entries to this summer’s Five Minute Theatre event from the National Theatre of Scotland will close this Sunday, 23 March 2014.
Prudencia’s coming home
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, the pub-set, site-specific hit by David Greig and Wils Wilson for the National Theatre of Scotland is to play limited dates at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy theatre this March.
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