The second half of Harris’ construction takes an audacious lurch into the meta, with Lady M taking charge after her husband falls apart, while scratches, scrapes and bumps in the night punctuate Pippa Murphy’s eerie sound design throughout.
Maggie & Me at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow reviewed
Our review of When Mountains Meet: A Musical Journey From The Highlands To The Himalayas To Find A Lost Father
The landscape is everywhere in Morna Young's new version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel. Conceived for Dundee Rep with director Finn Den Hertog, the production sets out its expansive and impressionistic store by way of rows of soil that fill designer Emma Bailey’s stage. This is accompanied by the pulsating drone of composer Finn Anderson’s score.
Take five girls. Put them in the same house together with only one borrowed designer dress to share between them in a world where dreams of poetry, dancing and clothes are on ration, and everyday desires look set to explode. So it goes in Gabriel Quigley’s appealingly breezy new adaptation of Muriel Spark’s 1973 novella, brought to life with a busy flourish in Roxana Silbert’s expansive production.
Second comings are all the rage these days, as pension plan heritage rock tours cash in on a band’s influential legacy to claim their place in history.
Michael Curtiz’s classic 1942 movie vehicle for Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was adapted for the stage as a loving tribute to Casablanca.
Review: A Giant on the Bridge, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
