IT has been 16 years since Scottish Opera premiered this production of Verdi’s masterpiece La traviata (“The Fallen Woman”), directed by Sir David McVicar at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. Boasting a universally impressive cast, led by the exceptional South Korean soprano Hye-Youn Lee and her compatriot tenor Ji-Min Park, this revival is an undoubted triumph.
ON Sunday, June 16, the prize-giving ceremony of the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) will be held at Glasgow’s splendid Theatre Royal. Eagle-eyed guests at the annual celebration might notice that the awards have a new sponsor this year.
MURIEL Spark’s famous novel The Girls Of Slender Means commends itself to theatre writers in many ways. The book tells the story of a diverse group of young women, thrown together in a London hostel in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
OVER the course of this month, we have witnessed the obscene charade of “performative warfare” between Israel and Iran, following Israel’s flagrant and reckless bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.
SCOTTISH culture has a deep love affair with Sunset Song, the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s famous trilogy A Scots Quair.
I argued in my column for The National two weeks ago that the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus (which killed seven members of
RONA Munro’s ambitious project to dramatise the reigns of all the Scottish kings named James now stands one tantalising step away from James VI of Scotland and I
THIS revival by Scottish Ballet of David Dawson’s 2016 staging of Tchaikovsky’s great ballet Swan Lake was announced with considerable fanfare.
THE bombing on Monday of the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus – in which seven people were killed, including two generals in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – is widely believed to have been perpetrated by Israel.
THE nouveau cirque (or “new circus”) movement, which emerged in the 1970s and 80s, brought together many of the human performance elements of traditional circus.
