With enough spectacle and showmanship to keep kids big and small spellbound, Scottish Ballet’s revival of Peter Darrel’s Nutcracker at the Festival Theatre and on tour is the perfect Christmas present.
Edinburgh Fringe: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Scorching: A guttural call to arms, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at the Traverse presents a broiling manifesto for feminist revolution.
Edinburgh Fringe: Faslane
Therapeutic: Jenna Watt’s affecting exploration of Trident in Faslane may never go nuclear, but her sympathetic approach to a complex issue restores some much-needed humanity to an increasingly polarised body politic.
Edinburgh Fringe: Macbeth: Without Words.
Bold: Fresh and experimental, the Ludens Ensemble’s reimagining of the Scottish play is an Expressionist fantasia of sound, projection and movement.
CRASH – Touring
Alluring: One of the Traverse Theatre’s own offerings from last year’s fringe and now on tour, Crash traces the psychological unravelling of an unnamed trader, played by a cagey Jamie Michie. In the wake of a trauma which has left him feeling disconnected from life, he finds salvation in the increasingly volatile world of high finance. It’s 2007 and money markets are freezing. Chaos approaches.