Dawn King’s 2022 play, The Trials, offers a deeply uncomfortable premise. Set in a suffocating near-future where the climate has finally cracked, it places the generation responsible for the ecological…

A Scots-inflected adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s 1923 play, as seen through an Orson Welles-esque lens, Director Stewart Laing’s ‘reimagined’ Saint Joan makes for a singular piece of contemporary theatre. A…

“He needs a bit of a kick up the ass, which, don’t we all?” The line belongs to Robert Softley Gale, Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise (BOP) Theatre Company,…

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra rarely puts a foot wrong – or a note out of place – and, under the baton of Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, there was never any…

The Dunedin Consort is one of the world’s foremost Baroque ensembles, based in Scotland.  So boasts the programme for this evening of trio sonatas composed in the late seventeenth and…