“What do you do with a BA in English?…” Princeton (charmingly puppeteered by Chris Tomlinson) is a bright-eyed and optimistic college graduate, pondering what to do with himself after the company for whom he has just moved to New York City suddenly “downsizes”. Unemployment turns out to be only one of a multitude of problems Read More
“Can one live a life without deception?” A screen of smoke swirling across a sparse set subtly signals the leitmotif of this little known and rarely performed Russian play by Gogol. Indeed, it was unavailable to Western audiences or readers until the late 1990s. A delightfully imaginative pre-action set, which appears to be a darkened Read More
April in Paris is a warm, funny two-hander starring Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann as Bet and Al, a working-class couple from Hull who, despite barely being able to tolerate each other, win a romantic break to the city of love. Playing on the well-worn comedy theme of “Brits abroad”, the play is nevertheless also Read More
“I give you the truth in the pleasant guise of illusion.” In the treasure-house of memorable productions staged by Dundee Rep Theatre, Jemima Levick’s version of Tennessee Williams’s iconic name-making play, The Glass Menagerie, must count among the best. I was unprepared for the sensitivity, perfect timing and sheer dramatic artistry of the actors in this four-hander, Read More
Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong, was brought to life at Dundee Rep by the Original Theatre Company guided by award winning director Alastair Whatley. Birdsong tells the story of Lieutenant Stephen Wraysford, recalling different stages of his life before and during World War I. The play is particularly relevant during this year’s centenary Read More
Alan Ayckbourn’s play, Woman in Mind, is the first co-production by Dundee Rep Ensemble with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and is directed by Marilyn Imrie. In inimitable Ayckbourn style, a woman’s mental breakdown is dramatised with humour, surrealism, poignancy and pathos. Concussed by her garden rake, Susan (Meg Fraser) starts to regain consciousness just as Read More
“Help this story live. We kindly ask that you keep the ending a secret. We wouldn’t want to spoil the ending for other theatregoers and we wish to preserve the ongoing mystery of this iconic murder mystery masterpiece!” So says the programme for Dundee Rep’s masterful performance of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery And Then Read More
The face on the poster tells a story without a word being spoken: a woman’s face etched with grief, defiance in the downturn of the mouth.Theatre-goers are left in no doubt that the Dundee Rep Ensemble’s performance of Euripides’ anti-war tragedy Hecuba is going to be bleak and uncompromising; a narrative with no quarter given. Read More
David Greig is one of Scotland’s most influential and prolific playwrights (forty plays in the last 20 years). The diversity of his work is extraordinary. He has produced work from Damascus (Edinburgh International Festival 2009) through to Dunsinane (Royal Shakespeare Company 2010) and has adapted several classics including Euripides’ Bacchae starring Alan Cumming (National Theatre Read More
21st May-7th June Magnetic North and Dundee Rep Theatre. Co-produced by Magnetic North and Dundee Rep, the late Tom McGrath’s enchanting drama Kora is enjoying a two-week run in the recently refurbished Bonar Hall. Inspired by a real life Coralie whom the playwright met in Dundee in the 1980s, the fictional Kora is a single Read More