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PPP: Coast

PPP: Coast

★★★★☆ Touching

Coast, the latest offering at the Traverse from A Play, A Pie and A Pint (co-presented with Òran Mór), is a wonderfully judged and absorbing drama.

Sep 26 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP tales of coming home

PPP tales of coming home

Six play season of lunchtime theatre at Traverse

Tales of coming home unite the Traverse’s six lunchtime theatre productions from A Play A Pie and A Pint this Autumn, with the first production, Ship Rats, opening this week.

Sep 20 2023 | By | Reply More
PPP: Ship Rats

PPP: Ship Rats

★★★☆☆ Energetic

Ship Rats by Alice Clark, the first in the latest series of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at the Traverse (co-presented with Òran Mór) is a pacy and intriguing work. There are undoubtedly problems with the play, but the vigour and acuity of the production go a long way towards compensating for them.

Sep 19 2023 | By | Reply More
Football play closes Trav 60

Football play closes Trav 60

Same Team – Street Soccer Story to play Traverse in December

The final play of the Traverse’s 60th anniversary season is to be Same Team – Street Soccer Story, by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, created with the women of Street Soccer’s Dundee Change Centre and inspired by the Homeless World Cup.

Sep 14 2023 | By | Reply More
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

★★★★☆ Marvellous mayhem

Isobel McArthur strikes again with The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, a wonderfully written fusion of farce and opera running the full length of the fringe.

Aug 18 2023 | By | Reply More
An Oak Tree

An Oak Tree

★★★★★ Clear as water

A mesmeric exploration of belief, loss and imagination as well as an ingeniously conceived experience, Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree is a stunning piece of theatre.

Aug 12 2023 | By | Reply More
ADULTS

ADULTS

★★★★☆ More than a sex comedy

ADULTS, the new play from Kieran Hurley, writer of 2019 hit Mouthpiece, brings Conleth Hill, currently starring in the Power of Parker and known to many for his role in Game of Thrones, to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Aug 9 2023 | By | Reply More
Thrown (EIF)

Thrown (EIF)

★★★★☆ Substantial

The National Theatre of Scotland’s Thrown, at the Traverse as part of the International Festival, is an intelligent and powerful piece of theatre.

Aug 8 2023 | By | Reply More
Disappearing Act

Disappearing Act

Scottish producing theatre in existential danger

Scotland’s producing theatre sector, which includes the Traverse and the Lyceum, is in imminent danger of collapse unless it can take collective action on a number of different fronts, according to a major new report.

Jul 30 2023 | By | Reply More
Dear Billy

Dear Billy

★★★★★ Joyous

Everyone has a Billy Connolly story. Ask around on any Scottish High Street, and folk will have a story about the Big Yin. Which is both the premiss and the promise of Dear Billy, at the Traverse for three nights only.

May 20 2023 | By | Reply More
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