Northings | Francis McLachlan | Activity http://northings.com/members/francismclachlan/activity/ Activity feed for Francis McLachlan. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 3f54b51d2ec8900b9c6326a54e846783 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Ignition, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/03/24/ignition-3/ Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:09:24 +0000 ThumbnailBrae 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 […]

]]> 0 7b4ee2abb149f3e12102afdec266ff15 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, In an Alien Landscape, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/02/05/in-an-alien-landscape/ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:00:36 +0000 ThumbnailBeacon 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 […]

]]> 0 fd9e5be0ff4d2440a43c4cf499a3c305 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Sex and God, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/10/04/sex-and-god/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:39:09 +0000 ThumbnailPlatform, 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 […]

]]> 0 57d53ed36861256183a9ae50f94e918a Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The Cone Gatherers, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/25/the-cone-gatherers/ Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:00:16 +0000 ThumbnailHis 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 […]

]]> 0 b53fcd6a343f30668bc5d013d3a24e0c Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, My Shrinking Life, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/15/my-shrinking-life/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:24:17 +0000 ThumbnailTron 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 […]

]]> 0 badf79b51e4430613fdeee50c781ae76 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Rope, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/14/rope/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:25:33 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry 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 […]

]]> 0 b9ef04943808766386a377250c26284c Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The 39 Steps, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/14/the-39-steps/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:19:57 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry 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 […]

]]> 0 ee0464d356c6a6c3990812f9f52976d6 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Kidnapped, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/03/kidnapped/ Thu, 03 May 2012 09:51:32 +0000 ThumbnailEastgate 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 […]

]]> 0 d252130eb619200fa53e786e305bcecb Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, Ana, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/12/ana/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:16:36 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse 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]

]]> 0 c41a601d18223dca51d3e5db8b223c21 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, An Appointment with the Wicker Man, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/27/an-appointment-with-the-wicker-man/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:10:10 +0000 ThumbnailHis 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 […]

]]> 0 31ee5a9f2ea901d4512fb8dd401c21b6 Francis McLachlan wrote a new post, The Infamous Brothers Davenport, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/01/31/the-infamous-brothers-davenport/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:00:05 +0000 ThumbnailRoyal 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, […]

]]> 0 6abe7877fdcf7355f49decf77f1cb909 Francis McLachlan became a registered member http://northings.com/activity/p/6833/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:09:26 +0000 0