Mark Fisher's Scottish Theatre Blog

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Published in the Guardian Glas(s) Performance at Tramway, Glasgow Four stars ’TIS THE season to be jolly. Unless you’re Megan Reid and...

Published in the Guardian Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Two stars YOU KNOW know when you’re given a Christmas present, and you smile gra...

Published in the Guardian Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Four stars YOU could mistake Cliff Burnett's Scrooge for a genial fellow....

Published in the Guardian Tron Theatre, Glasgow Four stars THE 1947 seasonal favourite, Miracle on 34th Street, is a modest and sweet-...

Published in the Guardian Dundee Rep Three stars ONCE upon a time, all the theatre directors in the land decided it was their duty to pr...

Published in the Guardian St Andrew Square, Edinburgh Two stars IT'S a formula with a proven track record. Last year's Limbo, th...

Published in Scotland on Sunday IT'S 1996 and, as the Edinburgh Fringe kicks off, there's concern at the Assembly Rooms about on...

Published in the Guardian Catherine Wheels at Summerhall, Edinburgh Five stars WHAT makes novels such as 1984 and  Brave New World ...

Published in the Guardian Tron Theatre, Glasgow Four stars WE'RE in the ration-book London of Dylan Thomas,  Wyndham Lewis  and Fra...

Published in the Guardian Royal Lyceum Four stars IMMEDIATELY in front of us, a woman is crouched down chopping turnips with a cleave...

Published in the Guardian Greyscale/Dundee Rep Three stars NOBODY is what they seem in Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of card sharps and confid...

Published in the Guardian Tron Theatre, Glasgow Four stars WATCHING John Byrne’s new adaptation of the Chekhov classic, it’s hard to p...