Is there anyone who ever imagined sex was going to be a simple act of coupling between two human beings? In Liz Lochhead’s What Goes Around, in which two actors play seven characters, drama and real life become as confused as the characters who pursue each other round and round on the merry-go-round of Glasgow’s Read More
In the 1890s, Mary MacPherson, a poet from Skeabost, Skye, penned a song of protest, after her family had been systematically cleared from the land. Written in Gaelic, the translation goes “Remember that you are a people and fight for your rights… There is richness under your feet.” The lament concludes with the forlorn hope Read More
The London Classic Theatre is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary as a touring company with the production of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1974 play Absent Friends. Contrary to the zeitgeist of presenting period plays in contemporary settings, director Michael Cabot has stuck assiduously to the play’s original Seventies setting. This diligence has been rewarded with some fantastic Read More
Devised and performed by Dundee Rep’s Community Company, The Land Beneath Our Feet is a dark, thought-provoking tale of community eviction. It invites the audience to make its own judgements about the space we call home, as residents and ruthless developers clash with tragic consequences. Director Catrin Evans began working with the community performers in Read More
Students undertaking the HND 1 in Acting and Performance at the D&A present the fruits of their labours over the past semester – a rousing rendition of Mike Bartlett’s acclaimed script, first performed in 2010. Jane Hensey, directing, writes in the programme’s foreword of the collaborative efforts that have gone into the production, and many Read More
For ye shall hear, how our heaven king Calleth Everyman to a general reckoning: Give audience, and hear what he doth say. ~ Messenger, The Somonyng of Everyman In some ways, it takes a certain amount of enterprise to put on a play that has been around for half a millennium; it becomes a distinct sort Read More
Fleur Darkin’s latest offering, Miann, premiered at the Fringe last year as part of the Made in Scotland curated showcase. This work certainly achieves Darkin’s desire to remind us that “life is felt before it is understood”. Pulsating with sensory impressions, the dancers (the full company plus guest dancers, James Southward and Quang Kien Van) Read More
Blood was very much the theme at the Dundee Rep on Friday evening (March 6), as we took our seats for Blood Wedding, a dark tale of love, lust, betrayal and revenge written in 1932 by Spanish poet and dramatist, Frederico García Lorca. The walls of the cafe bar were papered with blood-stained copies of Read More
For sedentary types, watching dancers as bodies in motion is to make contact again with the dream of air and speed: the quickness of lives unbounded by the terrestrial. And so it was Friday night when the Scottish Dance Theatre transformed a bare, whitened stage space at the Dundee Rep into a quicksilver blur of Read More
In this sentimental musical journey back into wartime Dundee and dark family secrets, the themes of loneliness and loss are never far away. Barbara Burnett (played by Sue Robertson) sits on a bench at the top of the Law in 1965, and looks back across a quarter of a century at the city and her Read More