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Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Ignition, on the site Northings 12 years ago
Brae Hall, Shetland, 21 March 2013
IT’S SAFE TO say the parents of Stuart Henderson, who died in a road accident in 2007, can have had no idea what they would set in motion when they suggested to director John […] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, In an Alien Landscape, on the site Northings 12 years, 1 month ago
Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, 1 February 2013, and touring
SOMETHING extraordinary happened to the late Tommy McHugh.HE WAS an ordinary Birkenhead bloke with a bit of a shady past. He’d had scrapes with the […]
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Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Sex and God, on the site Northings 12 years, 6 months ago
Platform, Glasgow, 28 September 2012, and touring
THE set looks like a tidal wave of chairs. It’s as if these everyday objects have been thrust violently into the air, tumbling over each other as they bisect the […] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The Cone Gatherers, on the site Northings 12 years, 6 months ago
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, 15 September 2012, and touring
ANYONE attempting to bring Robin Jenkins’s 1955 novel to the stage can’t proceed without solving one problem: how to present a story whose central […] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, My Shrinking Life, on the site Northings 12 years, 6 months ago
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 12 September 2012, and touring
“THIS is the real world,” says Alison Peebles to the audience at the start of the show.SHE wants us to know she is not playing a character, as she so […]
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Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Rope, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 6 June 2012, and in rep. until September
SAY what you like about Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 thriller, but there can’t be many West End hits that pivot on a working knowledge of Friedrich […] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The 39 Steps, on the site Northings 12 years, 9 months ago
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 6 June 2012, in rep. until September
THERE’S something about John Buchan’s 1915 adventure yarn that inspires adapters to play fast and loose.WHEN Alfred Hitchcock put The 39 Steps […]
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Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Kidnapped, on the site Northings 12 years, 11 months ago
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, 18 April 2012, and touring
ON ONE level, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped is a rip-roaring thriller, full of movement and adventure.SCARCELY has the newly orphaned David Balfour […]
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Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Ana, on the site Northings 13 years ago
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 March 2012, and touring WE’RE three-quarters of the way into this Scottish-Canadian co-production when Selina Boyack takes to the stage in laidback hippy mode. SHE’S playing a zonked-out performance poet at a Vancouver rock concert, circa 1970, delivering her pseudo-meaningful verse in a perfectly observed…[Read more] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, on the site Northings 13 years, 1 month ago
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, 22 February 2012, and touring YOU may not know the name, but you’ll recognise the Loch Parry Players. They’re the kind of amdram company you’ll find in towns and villages throughout the country. YOU’LL be familiar with the founder member who runs the society as if he were in charge of a multinational […] -
Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The Infamous Brothers Davenport, on the site Northings 13 years, 2 months ago
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, 24 January 2012, and touring ONE of the characteristics of Jamie Harrison’s shows for Glasgow’s Vox Motus is his illusionist’s eye for stagecraft. AWAY from the company, he has worked as a magician, and you can see in his shows, which he co-directs with Candice Edmunds, a love of stage trickery. Only now, however, […] -
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