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July 2024

  • Tron Theatre - Radiant Vermin - credit Mihaela Bodlovic 1

    Radiant Vermin review – cartoonish descent into property hell

    A couple stop at nothing to secure their first home in Johnny McKnight’s deliciously fast-paced production of Philip Ridley’s Faustian black comedy

June 2024

  • Social climbing … Martin Quinn and Dani Heron in Radiant Vermin at Tron theatre, Glasgow.

    Radiant Vermin review – Faustian take on getting a foot on the property ladder

    Johnny McKnight’s snappy revival makes us all complicit in Philip Ridley’s satire on capitalism and consumerism

October 2023

  • Andy Arnold

    Nae Expectations: Andy Arnold on a gallus Dickens, Glasgow’s Tron and ‘catastrophic’ arts cuts

    As he stages Gary McNair’s twist on the tale of Pip, the director reflects on 16 years of spotting and developing raw talent while running the Tron

February 2023

  • Four young women dance as one holds up her phone to take a picture.

    Moonset review – witchy magic swirls around a sensitive study of teen anxiety

    Four girls gather around a pentangle in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, which captures the vulnerability of adolescence

November 2022

  •  Julie Wilson Nimmo, Tyler Collins, Johnny McKnight and Lauren Ellis Steele in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at Tron theatre, Glasgow.

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz review – a joyful romp

  • The National Theatre’s Hex returns this winter.

    Watch out for snowball-firing robots! 25 of the best UK stage shows this Christmas

October 2022

  • Ramesh Meyyappan and Emmanuelle Laborit in La Performance

    La Performance review – bittersweet homage to Les Enfants du Paradis

    A hazily defined relationship makes it hard to fathom the squabbles and romance in this wordless show inspired by 1940s French cinema

March 2022

  • Eilidh Loan and Anna Russell-Martin.

    Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything review – a sensitive study of sisterhood

    Impossible ideals unravel in a demanding but funny two-hander with a standout turn from Eilidh Loan

February 2022

  • Kyle Gardiner, Santino Smith, Sean Connor, Ryan Hunter and Jatinder Singh Randhawa in Moorcroft.

    Moorcroft review – bittersweet football comedy is right on target

    Inspired by stories of her father’s youth, Eilidh Loan’s vibrant debut tackles race, sexuality and illness – and is as funny in execution as it is serious in purpose

November 2021

  • Suave assurance and callous control … Nicole Cooper as Prospero and Itxaso Moreno as Ariel in The Tempest.

    The Tempest review – stirring all-female Shakespeare on the cusp of Cop26

    The climate change meeting inspires a production emphasising the land-grab aspects of Shakespeare’s late play in an imaginative staging

May 2021

  • Only 14 visitors allowed … Tron theatre in Glasgow.

    Culture in peril
    Scottish theatres say reopening not viable under Holyrood Covid rules

    Two-metre minimum distancing rules cap audiences at a tiny fraction of capacity and hamper tours too, say venues

February 2021

  • ‘I lift to lighten the burden of being’ ... The Deadlift explores weightlifting in the gym.

    Lockdown culture
    Earwig review – weightlifting, witches and one high-stakes curry

    A trip to the gym for some metaphysical exercise opens the Tron theatre’s fascinating series of experimental audio dramas

December 2020

  • a still from High Man Pen Meander.

    Lockdown culture
    High Man Pen Meander review – gorgeous homage to Edwin Morgan

    In this exquisite film we go backstage at Glasgow’s Tron to hear and see the poet’s work performed with beguiling theatricality

August 2020

  • ‘Will families return next year?’ … TaleGate’s James Worthington as a panto dame.

    Culture in peril
    Not just for Christmas: panto cancellations threaten theatres' future

    They fill the coffers, nurture audiences and enable venues’ other activities. Pantomimes are pivotal for the UK stage industry – a year without them could be catastrophic

July 2020

  • Sharon D Clarke in Sleeping Beauty, directed by Susie McKenna at the Hackney Empire in 2016.

    Theatres that made us
    'Hackney Empire gave me love – I got married on stage to my panto director'

    Sharon D Clarke, Robert Hastie, Michael Buffong and more share memories of the theatres that welcomed and inspired them

March 2020

  • An alien in our presence … Nico Guerzoni as the transformed Gregor in Metamorphosis.

    The Metamorphosis review – Kafka classic becomes metaphor for pandemic

    Kafka’s story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown

May 2019

  • Kim Allan, Rehanna MacDonald, and Betty Valencia in the play This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing.

    This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing review – terrific triplets

    Jemima Levick revives this tale about three sisters coming of age with wit and charm

December 2018

  • PO Mammy Goose, L-R Julie Wilson Nimmo, Johnny McKnight, Lauren Ellis-Steele, credit John Johnston

    Good tidings he brings! Johnny McKnight, Scotland's panto powerhouse

    Pantomime legend Johnny McKnight does his usual festive double, starring in Mammy Goose at the Tron in Glasgow – and writing Sleepin’ Cutie at Macrobert, Stirling

October 2016

  • Andrew Rothney and Blythe Duff in Grain in the Blood.

    Grain in the Blood review – too cool for comfort

    The detached acting in Rob Drummond’s horror-flecked melodrama render it less than the sum of its parts

March 2014

  • Wendy Hoose James Young Amy Conachan

    Wendy Hoose review – 'Rude, ribald and hilariously off-colour'

    A vulnerable James Young and a defiantly sexy Amy Conachan star in this outrageously funny comedy of manners, writes Mark Fisher
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