National Theatre of Scotland
Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning review – Hammer horror meets Victorian melodrama
Strong performances are the lifeblood of Morna Pearson’s new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale for the National Theatre of Scotland and Aberdeen Performing Arts
Thrown review – backhold wrestling tale tackles Scottish identity
Nat McCleary’s questing debut play brings five women together through a Highland Games that does not always make them welcome
Smackdown in Scotland: the full-tilt drama grappling with national identity
What can the ancient sport of backhold wrestling tell us about today’s struggles over unity and tradition? Our writer finds out
Dear Billy review – brilliant tribute to the Big Yin
Protest review – schoolgirls unite with the power of dissent
Kidnapped review – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife
Older, American and previously divorced, Frances Stevenson frames the National Theatre of Scotland’s pantomime-inspired recasting of the novelist’s adventure classic
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The best theatre to stream this month: The Book of Dust, Four Quartets and the start of panto seasonOur roundup of drama to watch at home includes Alan Ayckbourn’s 87th play, live performance from Ukraine and a concert of lost showtunes
James IV: Queen of the Fight review – Rona Munro’s knotty latest Stewart dynasty play
A racist verse by the court poet William Dunbar is the problematic inspiration for the fourth of Munro’s James plays exploring Scotland past and present
Medea review – Adura Onashile exudes awesome authority in bloody tragedy
Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging
Exodus review – home secretary launches leadership bid in satirical farce
Uma Nada-Rajah’s farce about an MP using intolerance as her ticket to the top job is very timely, but feebly plotted
Burn review – Alan Cumming is extraordinary as Scotland’s rockstar poet
Cumming’s daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin
Orphans review – buoyant musical about death, grief and boozing
Diary of a director: ‘I am buzzing off the passion and sweat of this gang’
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde review – theatre-film hybrid is an unwieldy beast
Hope Dickson Leach relocates RL Stevenson’s gothic chiller to its spiritual home in Edinburgh and gives it a modern format, but it’s a verbose, old-fashioned work
Alan Cumming to play Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre show
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
The Enemy review – Ibsen thrust into the social media age
A conscientious citizen stands against the forces of fake news and self-interest in the National Theatre of Scotland’s provocative adaptation
Ghosts review – writing the enslaved back into Glasgow’s past
Adura Onashile’s app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city’s historical ties to the slave trade
Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale Adventure review – an exuberant musical box of treats
National Theatre of Scotland retell the famous panto in a series of madcap monologues
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