No, not the one you’re thinking of, much as I love my Stoppard: I mean in fact W. S. Gilbert’s play: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids, founded on an Old Danish Legend I just started reading McCrum’s giant doorstop biography of P. G. Wodehouse, who of course adored Gilbert and at…
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FFB: Ritual by David Pinner
David Pinner’s novel Ritual is probably best known for inspiring the classic film The Wicker Man, which counts as horror or comedy depending on your religious alliances (or maybe a little of both — those poor animals!). Having come up in conversation on Twitter (I think? Rod McKie I believe can refresh my memory), I…
Celebrate Brigit’s Day
The season of Imbolc is upon us. Renew the spring with some Celtic offerings: one new and the other FREE this weekend! Reconciling the Dominions is an old chapter from my dissertation on how the goddess Brigit gets appropriated as a saint (Clive Barker fans may chuckle at that title, but it is fitting). The…
Review: The Berries
The Berries This hilarious play is set in the summer of 1974 amid the berry fields of Kirriemuir, and follows a day in the life of four Dundee ‘nabblers’ (pickers) as they toil and graft under the watchful eye of the no-nonsense foreman Rab. In order to distract themselves from the hard work, they enter…
A Sneak Peek at ‘Let the Right One In’
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Dundee Rep & the National Theatre of Scotland June 5-29, 2013 I was lucky enough to attend a press preview for National Theatre of Scotland‘s production of Let the Right One In at Dundee Rep. Here’s to forward thinking folks who realise what engaging with the creative community as well…
Anticipation
We have tickets for two plays coming up at Dundee Rep: Let The Right One In A stage adaptation by Jack Thorne based on the Swedish novel and screenplay of the film by John Ajvide Lindqvist Directed by John Tiffany Associate Director Steven Hoggett. A major new production, Let the Right One In is a…