An Lanntair, Stornoway, 21 July 2007

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 11-14 July 2007

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies SIR ALAN AYCKBOURN has written more than seventy plays and is easily Britain’s most popular playwright. No theatre season is complete without one of his works in the programme, as a venue like the Pitlochry Festival Theatre has discovered to its benefit. Veteran French director Alain Resnais has been a […]

GEORGINA COBURN admires the range of response to the challenges of an ambitious site-specific show in Sleat.

Dundee Contemporary Arts, until 14 August 2007

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies Shakespeare’s Scottish play has inspired some of the most illustrious names in the film world, from Roman Polanski to Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa. There is no reason that ‘Macbeth’ could not withstand a fresh telling, but a new version from ‘Romper Stomper’ director Geoffrey Wright is an awkward, unpersuasive […]

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, until 29 July 2007

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies HOW OFTEN can one man be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Bruce Willis proves that there is no end to the possibilities in ‘Die Hard 4.0’, his belated return to the role of world-weary policeman John McClane. The latest Summer blockbuster is a surprisingly watchable, big budget […]

Orkney, 22-27 June 2007

Studio Alba, Stornoway, 23-24 June 2007