Northings | Mark Fisher | Activity http://northings.com/members/markfisher/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Fisher. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 c2842084d8559d25e8fe788b491cb1e6 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Seafarer, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/02/12/the-seafarer/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:14:41 +0000 ThumbnailPerth Theatre, 8 February 2013
IN THE BAR after the show, two of the staff are playing cards.

IT looks like a game of snap rather than the poker that has dominated the second half of Conor McPherson’s play, […]

]]> 0 1f73d379925e7a14ac348a7b85b71f67 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, White Christmas, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/12/06/white-christmas/ Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:26:29 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry Festival Theatre, 5 December 2012
ON the first preview performance, the audience entered on an ordinary winter’s evening and left, so I’m told, to see the first snowfall of the season. We knew the […]

]]> 0 19ca91ce4cb3f2e596079b4c85af81b9 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Static, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/17/the-static/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:57:04 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 13 September 2012, and touring
WHEN babies are born, they assume they are at the centre of the universe. It’s only as we mature that we realise ours may not be the only […]

]]> 0 429716b6c531ee8fbf9982ddc81a2f11 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Dear Brutus, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/13/dear-brutus/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:30 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry Festival Theatre, 7 September 2012
FEW playwrights have ever worried at a theme as consistently as JM Barrie.

IT isn’t only in Peter Pan that the Kirriemuir-born writer lamented the swift passage of […]

]]> 0 535d5aa674a430be4514b136b54fa3d1 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Tam O'Shanter, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/21/tam-oshanter/ Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:57:20 +0000 ThumbnailAssembly Hall, Edinburgh, 19 August 2012, and touring
TO DESCRIBE  a production based on the songs and poetry of Robert Burns as being especially Scottish may seem redundant.

AFTER all, that is only what you […]

]]> 0 6416ad81bb8c8aaacf74c6f5ce227e9f Mark Fisher wrote a new post, National Theatre of Scotland Launch, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2006/02/01/national-theatre-of-scotland-launch/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:44:02 +0000 The Long Way Home
MARK FISHER looks at the Highlands and Islands component of HOME, the National Theatre of Scotland’s ambitious launch project taking place in ten locations across Scotland
PEOPLE HAVE been […]

]]> 0 6b750a2d065c70a26def8cfcccd9cd06 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Mikey and Addie, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/14/mikey-and-addie/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:08:41 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse, Edinburgh, 11 May 2012, and touring
HOWEVER old we are, it never stops being difficult to get our problems in perspective.

WHEN we’re faced with a dilemma that affects us deeply, it seems like the […]

]]> 0 4a22c45a2f3090b5f5c018330837be27 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Man Who Lived Twice, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/01/the-man-who-lived-twice-2/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:06:44 +0000 ThumbnailDundee Rep, 28 March 2012, and touring
EVERYONE in Garry Robson’s wordy drama, based on real events in 1936, is living the life of someone they are not.

THERE is John Gielgud, making a name for himself as a […]

]]> 0 5c10bf9293ee5c52ea50b8e3fff6ba41 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Attic, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/21/the-attic/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:59:48 +0000 ThumbnailAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy, 20 February 2012, and touring I HAVE a vivid childhood memory of an episode of Bill and Ben in which the two flowerpot men left their usual patch of land and ventured through a door in the garden wall. SOMETHING about it stayed with me. It was partly the breaking of a tiresome routine, […]

]]> 0 520fb1ab973d2a4393ae7bf87978e33c Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Double Nugget , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/20/double-nugget/ Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:55:27 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, 17 February 2012, and touring JOHNNY McKnight is a fly one. As a playwright, he makes like everything is a big laugh. THE two one-hour plays brought together here by Random Accomplice are all gossipy and effervescent, quick-witted jokes and gallus patter with an air of camp. Like the candyfloss shared by Jenny and […]

]]> 0 be88da02077b2033ab04ebbc0990dda2 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/13/someone-wholl-watch-over-me/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:37 +0000 ThumbnailPerth Theatre, 11 February 2012 PLAYWRIGHTS like to show us characters under pressure. THEY have to be careful, however, not to impose so much pressure their characters simply walk off stage. Whatever the dramatic scenario, the characters have to have a reason for putting up with the discomfort and not doing a runner. In Someone Who’ll Watch Over […]

]]> 0 07b2bfadae7635459f5b0f6d5a8ce438 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Barflies, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/13/barflies/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:58:14 +0000 ThumbnailBarony Bar, Edinburgh, 8 February 2012, and touring YOU’RE sitting in your local and everything looks familiar: special offers chalked on the blackboard, neon advertising signs above the till, the various beer logos on the pumps. BUT look closely and all is not what it seems. Those are not the usual brands of ale on sale, but […]

]]> 0 fb3adf1d36a4363246e353a6ee446cc5 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Captain's Collection, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/01/30/the-captains-collection/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:53:22 +0000 ThumbnailBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 27 January 2012 YOU probably heard the fuss kicked up by fans of the Smiths in the run-up to Christmas. THEY were outraged with department store John Lewis for using one of the indie band’s finest songs, ‘Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want’, as the soundtrack to an advert. What greater insult […]

]]> 0 066793224652a83a0d4b918e5b30f6fa Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Kin, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/14/kin/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:12:41 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 November 2011, and touring SAY WHAT you like about the church – and I’m sure you do – but one thing organised religion is notably good at is dealing with births, marriages and deaths. WHEN we want to mark those occasions, even in a secular age, we still tend to look to the […]

]]> 0 ad2dd0af07239df30499f4caa6f54fd2 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Whisky Galore - A Musical!, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/01/whisky-galore-a-musical/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:56:06 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry Festival Theatre, 31 October 2011 IT’S STRANGE enough that one of Scotland’s most highly attended theatres is in one of the country’s smallest towns. What’s even stranger is that Pitlochry Festival Theatre now appears to be repeating its summer success in the autumn. For the first time, the theatre in the hills has staged a production […]

]]> 0 daa1d8e34dcde66d8fa01943fd71de42 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/31/the-curious-scrapbook-of-josephine-bean/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:29:44 +0000 ThumbnailCarnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 29 October 2011, and touring WE ALL like to imagine books are full of knowledge, but it is with a degree of scepticism that we regard Dr Patricia Baker when she tells us her job is to work out the stories hidden inside ancient scrapbooks. Surely this self-styled ‘scrapologist’ in her forensic lab coat […]

]]> 0 b5178777e8b3f3e60c2d2ae026bae79c Mark Fisher commented on the post, Apocalypse: A Glamorously Ugly Cabaret, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/09/apocalypse-a-glamorously-ugly-cabaret-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:09:22 +0000 Hi Daniel,

Maybe you should treat yourself to a night out in Buckie . . .

Full tour dates here: http://www.occasionalcabaret.com/

]]> 97e1fed07a81dbd60d09776307a90fd6 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Saturday Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/10/saturday-night/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:44:45 +0000 ThumbnailTramway, Glasgow, 8 October 2011, and touring SILENT MOVIES survived for decades before audiences got to hear what the actors were saying, so perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised by Vanishing Point’s Saturday Night . Like its companion piece Interiors, from 2009, this international co-production is entirely wordless. It’s like theatre for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae97b9d2a7058ee1f3c7cb1536e264c5 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Hunted, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/10/the-hunted/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:39:36 +0000 ThumbnailScottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow, 8 October 2011, and touring DESPITE the enormous changes brought about by the industrial and technological revolutions, we have never stopped being spellbound by the fairy story. The world of woodcutters, wolves and forests should mean nothing to the modern child, yet the archetypal narratives of Little Red Riding…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d5d81cea6bb9951a0e3aa3614428125 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Apocalypse: A Glamorously Ugly Cabaret, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/09/apocalypse-a-glamorously-ugly-cabaret-2/ Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:23:00 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, 5 October 2011, and touring CABARET is the artform we associate with decadence and a kind of end-of-the-world desperation. Perhaps the Emperor Nero was its first practitioner as he fiddled while Rome burned. Most commonly, it is the form we attribute to the nightclubs of 1930s Berlin when the Nazis were on the rise, […]

]]> 0 7b9566d397d5abebbe0e7c51e1cd2662 Mark Fisher commented on the post, Singing Far into the Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/singing-far-into-the-night-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1455 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:01:43 +0000 Yes, Jon. I agree. It seems to me far more useful and interesting for a review to be the start of a discussion rather than the end of one. It’s easy for me to say that, though. The hard thing is for someone in Hamish’s position to step forward and join the debate – and […]

]]> 3732a1873cca224b44ecded92ddd88fb Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Tall Tales for Small People, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/04/tall-tales-for-small-people/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:46:25 +0000 ThumbnailCumbernauld Theatre, 1 October 2011, and touring IN ESSEX the row is rumbling on at Dale Farm where the local council is trying to evict 86 Traveller families from what it is says is an unauthorised site. On a smaller scale, there is a similarly frosty reception for the family that pulls up its caravan on a […]

]]> 0 50fba8ec18fae7b070f22e107b6820d4 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Calum's Road, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/04/calums-road/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:41:34 +0000 ThumbnailCumbernauld Theatre, 1 October 2011, and touring WITHOUT telling anyone, the National Theatre of Scotland has mounted a mini-festival of the work of Gerry Mulgrew, the celebrated founder of Communicado. By day, you can see a revival of his Tall Tales for Small People , an exuberant show for children (and adults with good taste) that the director…[Read more]

]]> 0 1808a6b509d301f2fe158145e3dab47f Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Twelfth Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/03/twelfth-night-2/ Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:28:20 +0000 ThumbnailPerth Theatre, Perth, 30 September 2011 IF IT’S a bold start you’re after, you can’t fault Rachel O’Riordan. Making her debut as artistic director at Perth Theatre, the former choreographer from Northern Ireland is fielding upwards of 14 actors in the company’s first Shakespeare for six years. It sets her inaugural season off to a confident,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bd438a2a0f7e5530a66fb367cce55a5 Mark Fisher commented on the post, Singing Far into the Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/singing-far-into-the-night-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1430 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:02:52 +0000 Hi Hamish, yes, all fair points!

]]> 2468cc4ab5a0576594a786f581dedc7f Mark Fisher commented on the post, Singing Far into the Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/singing-far-into-the-night-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1421 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:09:57 +0000 Yes, a few more characters who do no harm (except to the Mull Theatre budget).

]]> 75fc24ff27747b07bd95821c812a4a82 Mark Fisher commented on the post, Singing Far into the Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/singing-far-into-the-night-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:37:22 +0000 Hi everyone, thanks for your comments. Glad people are enjoying the show. And sorry, Hamish, I didn’t know about the lighting rig failure – I wouldn’t have mentioned it if I knew there’d been problems. Thanks for your other comments – it’s good you took the time to respond (many wouldn’t!) I guess the point […]

]]> 79ba5f5962f40a6a7b16dedecdbf25d0 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Singing Far into the Night, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/singing-far-into-the-night-2/ Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:02:55 +0000 ThumbnailBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 23 September 2011, and touring THERE’S a fascinating article by playwright Hamish MacDonald in the programme for this Mull Theatre production. He writes about the experience of his father’s friend, a Royal Navy rating, in 1931 when sailors of the Atlantic fleet went on strike. They were furious about a 25% pay cut…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ac68e8e7fa09e5bdb4b58332c83dc1e Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Para Handy – A Voyage Around The Stories of Neil Munro, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/para-handy-%e2%80%93-a-voyage-around-the-stories-of-neil-munro/ Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:02:31 +0000 ThumbnailEmpire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 22 September 2011, and touring IS IT nostalgia? The romance of the Highlands? A longing for simpler times? Whatever it is, there’s no denying the enduring appeal of Neil Munro’s tales about Para Handy, the captain of the Vital Spark, squabbling with his mild-mannered crew as they navigate between Gourock and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c19dd92da536236def5e2e75bcc562f0 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Men Should Weep, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/27/men-should-weep/ Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:50:13 +0000 ThumbnailCitizens Theatre, Glasgow, 20 September 2011, and touring AFTER all these years it shouldn’t still be such a surprise, but one of the many remarkable things about Ena Lamont Stewart’s 1947 tenement tragedy is how many women there are on stage. Although the playwright’s subject is the Depression of the 1930s when unemployment among working-class…[Read more]

]]> 0 df569cf2c72b6326c77a19b71b7bc0f6 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, My Fair Lady, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/28/my-fair-lady/ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:31:02 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry Festival Theatre, 18 June 2011 ALTHOUGH IT has clocked up 60 years of crowd-pleasing entertainment, Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a relative newcomer to the musical. This is surprising. Not only do big-hearted shows such as 2009’s Whisky Galore – a Musical! go down tremendously well with audiences holidaying in Perthshire, but also the …[Read more]

]]> 0 051f25397a35b1864d7ee4f65f0fdec4 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Henceforward . . ., on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/28/henceforward/ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:24:40 +0000 ThumbnailPitlochry Festival Theatre, 18 June 2011 THE PIVOTAL scene in My Fair Lady , the centrepiece of this year’s Pitlochry programme, is the one in which Eliza Doolittle, a former flower girl, passes herself off as an elegant lady at a grand social gathering. Playing in the same season, Alan Ayckbourn’s 1987 play Henceforward . . . revolves around a […]

]]> 0 8985e35ce311dc27c14c228845446ffe Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Knives in Hens, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/08/knives-in-hens/ Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:09:55 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse, Edinburgh, 7 June 2011, and touring IF YOU remember David Harrower’s debut play as a quiet and meditative study of elemental passions set in the pre-industrial countryside, you are in for a shock when you see this National Theatre of Scotland revival. It is still about elemental passions but, under the direction of Lies Pauwels, it […]

]]> 0 51f8673195104eb0df4bd7e61baa45b6 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, King of Scotland, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/17/king-of-scotland/ Tue, 17 May 2011 12:32:07 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, 13 May 2011, and touring AT the box office, the assistant asks a couple buying tickets how they heard about the show. They say it was the poster of Jonathan Watson outside. No doubt they won’t be the only people lured into Iain Heggie’s play by the big picture of the  star of Only an […]

]]> 0 8bb89cb4a065de151f18bccd4f0cfac1 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Clockwork, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/12/clockwork/ Thu, 12 May 2011 11:44:33 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 9 May 2011, and touring ON paper it just shouldn’t work. The starting point of this collaboration between Scottish Opera and the children’s theatre company Visible Fictions is Philip Pullman’s Clockwork (or All Wound Up). It’s a novel that tells three stories – and not all in the right order. There’s the one about […]

]]> 0 b741eda4ec135a3c5eb3c19c2e4cebd9 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Six Black Candles, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/22/six-black-candles/ Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:26:40 +0000 ThumbnailBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 21 April 2011, and touring YOU’VE got to admire Des Dillon for resolve. Not only has the playwright and novelist raised the funding for this revival of his black-magic comedy seven years after it was first seen in Edinburgh, but he has managed to stage it on pretty much the same scale. It’s not […]

]]> 0 3bd89a5c4ff406d8256d9fdd4464dc51 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Hard Man, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/05/the-hard-man/ Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:25:04 +0000 ThumbnailKing’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 April 2011, and touring TODAY Jimmy Boyle has a reputation as a wealthy sculptor and a connoisseur of champagne, living the good life in his Marrakesh home. At the time he co-wrote The Hard Man with the late Tom McGrath, by contrast, he was serving a life sentence in the special unit of Barlinnie […]

]]> 0 d63f4b035c8e6b066fb07d387ba220c6 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Caged, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/03/29/caged/ Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:01:46 +0000 ThumbnailBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 28 March 2011, and touring BEAUTY AND the Beast is an allegory about the union between a man and a woman. On the one hand, we have the beast, a symbol of maleness at its most extreme: hairy, aggressive and emotionally illiterate. On the other, we have Beauty, the epitome of those traditionally feminine […]

]]> 0 9097ad26b19d1cbe55923dcea8b5f547 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, By The Seat Of Your Pants, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/03/08/by-the-seat-of-your-pants/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:25:05 +0000 ThumbnailHowden Park Centre, Livingston, 4 March 2011, and touring THERE’S an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco called The Chairs in which two people fill a room with chairs for a conference of unseen people. By the Seat of Your Pants is like a junior version of this. Performed by three silent-movie style clowns, it is a warm-spirited piece […]

]]> 0 6012a1098ff53fa949f97a60466c45b4 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Girl X, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/03/08/girl-x/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:49:26 +0000 ThumbnailTraverse, Edinburgh, 5 March 2011, and touring “KEEP PARENTS away from decision making,” says Robert Softley as the emotional temperature rises in this fascinating show by the National Theatre of Scotland. The community chorus who stand around him are momentarily lost for words. How could anyone possibly advocate such a thing? Softley backtracks…[Read more]

]]> 0 a881400f5c987b67f2bd110e4d96e875 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Wild Life, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/03/02/wild-life/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:49:48 +0000 ThumbnailCumbernauld Theatre, 1 March 2011, and touring IT IS billed as a play inspired by the story of the wolf-boy of Aveyron, a child who ran wild in the woods of southern France until his discovery in 1800. The unexpected twist of Pamela Carter’s Wild Life , however, is that the wolf-boy makes no appearance – at least, not […]

]]> 0 03f19ee38ff09c7b40d607bdb37c481c Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Age of Arousal, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/23/age-of-arousal/ Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:52:52 +0000 ThumbnailRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh, 19 February 2011, and touring THE standard view of the Victorians is they were all buttoned up. They lived in a world of social niceties where a woman could take offence at a man simply if he were a little too eager, and society could ostracise a woman just for stepping out with a […]

]]> 0 f28b88568f4fecfb88a26f3b1c98df1a Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Gagarin Way , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/23/gagarin-way/ Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:40:38 +0000 ThumbnailCarnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 18 February 2011, and touring WITH all the clamour around Black Watch – still on the road more than four years after its Edinburgh Fringe debut – it’s easy to forget it was not the first time playwright Gregory Burke had enjoyed a run-away hit. His debut in 2001 , a cruel comedy set in a […]

]]> 0 cdeaf4dd7b9ae78541fdc9b1935090fe Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Smalltown, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/18/smalltown/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:10:04 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, 16 February 2011, and touring NOBODY would doubt the cultural significance of Northings, but even its most avid reader would be surprised by how much it has influenced the latest show by Glasgow’s Random Accomplice. The premise of Smalltown, written in three sections by Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight, comes…[Read more]

]]> 0 cda192616dea826ceb9071f7354109f2 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Death of a Salesman, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/15/death-of-a-salesman/ Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:06:46 +0000 ThumbnailPerth Theatre, Perth, 12 February 2011, and touring ARTHUR Miller’s working title for Death of a Salesman was The Inside of His Head . Perhaps that title is not as catchy, but it gives you an idea of the formal experiment the playwright was attempting. Death of a Salesman is a mainstream play – it clocked up 742 performances on […]

]]> 0 4f35ca39daacc1e5216a9d94ef4e4c92 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/14/the-strange-undoing-of-prudencia-hart-2/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:07:32 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, 10 February 2011, and touring AS the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) celebrates its fifth anniversary, the legacy of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil seems ever more pertinent. What John McGrath’s 7:84 (Scotland) did in 1973 was to marry the ceilidh, a cultural form indigenous to Scotland, with theatrical…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f23c26bd32b7635acc3236dec05e009 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Peter Pan, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/28/theatre-peter-pan-kings-theatre-glasgow/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:06:56 +0000 ThumbnailKing’s Theatre, Glasgow, 27 April 2010, and touring IN INTERVIEWS to promote this National Theatre of Scotland reworking of the JM Barrie classic, director John Tiffany has talked about the ambitious scale of the production. With its 17-strong cast, live music, extensive flying and pyrotechnic magic, it is bigger, he reckons, even than his…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e6063284f89e2aa4c8801e4d561f1a9 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Treasure Island, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/22/treasure-island-kings-theatre-edinburgh/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:17:20 +0000 ThumbnailKing’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 21 April 2010, and touring IAIN JOHNSTONE is adrift on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Talking directly to the audience, he sets the scene. “No ships, no land, no aeroplanes,” he says. This being the day UK airports have finally reopened after the Icelandic volcano, it is an adlib that gets […]

]]> 0 61471535aeb7da729163c1bef83e125f Mark Fisher wrote a new post, Mull Theatre - Laurel and Hardy, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/03/20/theatre-mull-theatre-laurel-hardy-brunton-theatre-musselburgh/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:32:27 +0000 ThumbnailBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 26 March 2010, and touring IF MY house was on fire, the first thing I would grab is the Laurel and Hardy DVD box set. I suspect I am not alone in that to judge by the audience for Mull Theatre’s revival of the late Tom McGrath’s bitter-sweet tribute to Stan and Ollie. […]

]]> 0 5e1604899fab857555e46e725fceae66 Mark Fisher wrote a new post, National Theatre of Scotland - The Miracle Man / Empty / Mr Write, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/03/17/national-theatre-of-scotland-the-miracle-man-empty-mr-write-tron-theatre-glasgow/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:32:47 +0000 ThumbnailTron Theatre, Glasgow, and touring March/April 2010 THE THEME of fathers failing to communicate with their sons is an old one. It is an obsession of today’s animated movies and it is central to Miracle Man , Douglas Maxwell’s new play for the National Theatre of Scotland’s tdf trilogy. If Ossian MacDonald, a little respected PE teacher, were […]

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