The universe has a habit of making its own plans for us all; in our darker moods, taking control can seem dauntingly futile. However, a little perspective can go a long way. For this Dundee Rep Ensemble and the Lyceum co-production of JB Priestley’s classic play,Time and the Conways, finding the calm in the eye of Read More
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a rare breed of comedian insofar as his act neither hinges upon nor hides from his cultural heritage. Political and cultural difficulties of the legacy of empire and migration are ever present, but Singh Kohli’s work refuses to be defined by its conflicts, and instead reflects a celebration of multiculturalism and also Read More
Two very different pieces were performed by the international Scottish Dance Theatre at Dundee Rep in late February. The programme’s opener, Second Coming, featuring music by Paganini, Bach, Beethoven and Jasper Gahunia, was from the Angelino choreographer Victor Quijada, while the Norwegian Jo Strømgren designed the next offering, Winter, Again. Strømgren used voice-over for narrative Read More
Written by Mike Kenny for the Dundee Rep Ensemble, The Snow Queen is a family pantomime with a lovely balance of sing-a-long songs, audience interaction, warm humour, compelling plot and clever stage design. This original and distinctly Scottish take on the classic Hans Christian Anderson’s tale makes jokes about the Scottish weather, comments on the Read More
Dundee Rep’s production of Whisky Galore is set in the days of Received Pronunciation and the BBC radio play. We meet the actors of the ‘Armchair Theatre Company’ studio in Edinburgh 1940s who portray the colourful inhabitants of the fictitious Hebridean Islands of Greater and Little Todday. Largely unaffected by wartime rationing, the Todday islanders Read More
“There is no fairy tale”, Lady Runcie-Campbell warns her son as she admonishes him for showing compassion to two men working on their highland estate in 1943. The truth is apparent at the start of this Aberdeen Performing Arts production of The Cone Gatherers, based on Robin Jenkin’s 1950s novel. Lady Runcie-Campbell’s shattered nerves, her Read More
A delicate whiff of carbolic greeted a capacity audience at the Dundee Rep on Saturday night (Sept 1) as Chris Rattray’s The Mill Lavvies returned to the theatre after a ten year absence. Set in the early 1960s, the play follows five male mill workers for whom the “lavvies” provide a respite from the noise Read More
The instant the lights come down, we are drawn into the dark world of the jute mills. Through a translucent curtain, the women of Dundee appear to be working at the spinning and the winding, the weaving and the carding. All the time, the mesmeric clackity-clacking of the looms, and the sporadic wailing of the Read More