Culture
Black Hole Sign
The depressing state of the National Health System is enough to send us all reaching for a pick me up. But an excellent and thought provoking play is just the tonic for a much needed […]
Theatre
Culture
Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Just shy of its 60th anniversary and the infamous Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical is still delighting. A packed King’s Theatre in Glasgow was on its feet singing and dancing along to the […]
Culture
Restless Natives: The Musical
A joke shop is a strange place to plot becoming modern day highwaymen. But then cult Scottish favourite Restless Natives is a bit of an eccentric story which grows on you as the audience at […]
Culture
The Mountaintop
There’s no denying that civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King was an extraordinary man. But he was also human and the very clever play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall exploits his fears and weaknesses […]
Culture
Picture You Dead
An old-fashioned crime thriller with twists and turns at every corner is always a winner with theatre audiences. And crime writer Peter James’s Picture You Dead showing at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow proved to […]
Culture
KELI – National Theatre of Scotland
Teenager Keli is like a wounded animal. For her life is one long battle to survive. Music is her lifeline and the one consistent which makes her feel maybe there is hope ahead. Let’s face […]
Culture
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Lovely to see a lot of excited children on the edge of their seats as they enjoyed CS Lewis’s timeless classic at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow. With all of today’s fabulous fast-moving animation, sparking […]
Culture
The Book of Mormon Musical
A musical comedy all about religion is always going to divide people. Risque jokes, costumes, dances are the staple diet of this musical which first hit Broadway in 2011. Times and attitudes have changed, so […]
Culture
Through the Shortbread Tin
Sporrans and shortbread are symbols of Scotland. But there is so much more culture buried deep and ready to discover. In 1760, Scottish poet James Macpherson sparked the world’s love of all things thistle and […]
Culture
Pride and Prejudice (sort of)
Oh, what fun we had with a real corker of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. The novelist’s 18th century look at the English landed gentry was swept aside with a frenzy of well, […]