Graham McLaren
The Cheviot The Stag…
★★★★★ Fabulous revival
Dundee Rep
Big, bold, brilliantly political and a cracking night out to boot, Dundee Rep’s revival of The Cheviot The Stag and the Black, Black Oil makes the theatre a must-visit venue this month.
Abbey poaches NTS duo
Neil Murray and Graham McLaren are to leave their key roles at the National Theatre of Scotland next year, to take over as joint directors of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre.
Yer Granny
✭✭✭✩✩ Saucy:
Hugely – if inconsistently – funny, but lacking real dramatic impact, Yer Granny at the King’s is certainly crowd-pleasing but does not seem destined to linger long in the memory.
Referendum week theatre
Drama on stage as Scotland decides
The Traverse leads the way with referendum-orientated theatre in the final week before polling on Thursday, although there is a celebration of the Scottish written word from the NTS and a spot of post-referendum experimentation down at the Village Pub on Friday.
In Time o’ Strife
✭✭✭✭✩ Raw power
Visceral and uncomfortable truths are laid bare in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of In Time O’ Strife. Despite the odd false step in the staging, this is an emotionally charged and thoroughly involving production.
Lyceum adds Dolls House to season
The Royal Lyceum has added the NTS’s new production of A Dolls House to its 2012/13 season, following the rescheduling of its planned production of new David Haig play, Pressure, to 2014.
What makes a play Scottish?
Greig and Scott go head to head in Staging the Nation debate:
What is a Scottish play? Not The Scottish Play – everyone knows of thespians’ superstitious euphemism for Macbeth when under a proscenium arch – but how do you define a truly Scottish play? Indeed, can it even be done?
