National Theatre of Scotland
James III: The True Mirror
★★★★☆ Humorously anachronistic
Cheerfully modern – and far more upbeat than its ostensibly tragic material would have suggested – James III: The True Mirror provides an energetic, occasionally puzzling conclusion to The James Plays.
James II: Day of the Innocents
★★★☆☆ Chilling
There’s a chilling tone to much of James II: Day of The Innocents. Quieter and more brooding than the plays which bookend it, it provides a necessary contrast, but is the least impressive of the three on its own terms.
James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock
★★★★☆ Historic
The high energy and dramatic power of James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock brings history into sharp focus and provides a fitting start to Rona Munro’s trilogy: the James Plays.
Double Date for VPT
Village Fete and 5 Minute Theatre at the Village
The Village Pub Theatre is to host two nights of all-new short-form theatre at its home in the Village Pub on Fort Street Leith.
The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Slightly imperfect
Infectious and entertaining, The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler is an engaging production whose flaws do not detract from its essential likeability.
Dear Scotland – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Portrait of a mindset
Dear Scotland, You are a country of many fine actors, both young and old, a country with many ideas that have to be said and with many people who have the wit to say them. Now the NTS has found a stage on which this to happen.
First Look: Dear Scotland
It is half time at the press performances of Dear Scotland, the National Theatre of Scotland’s collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. While we wait for Tour B to start, here are some photos of the show taken by Peter Dibdin.
First Look: Ivor Cutler
The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler opens in Glasgow Words: Thom Dibdin Photos: Tim Morozzo The strange and idiosyncratic world of Ivor Cutler has been brought to the stage in a new co-production between Matthew Lenton’s Vanishing Point and the National Theatre of Scotland. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler opened at the Glasgow Citizens […]
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.
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