The Drift is a spoken word piece written and performed by Hannah Lavery. It gorgeously asserts the active nature of history in Scotland today. In 2014, Lavery’s father died just when they were starting to talk after a period of estrangement. In The Drift, Lavery explores how her uncertain relationship with her father informed and defined her relationship with Scotland as a person of ‘mixed’ ethnicity, and how that link is just as important today as it ever was.
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Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon is unmissable in its new translation to the stage at the Traverse Theatre. In a dystopian-esque setting, we meet Anaïs Hendricks having just been returned to the custody of her latest care home by a less-than-friendly police officer.
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‘Fly Me to the Moon’ follows Francis and Loretta, two community care workers who find their elderly charge dead in his bathroom. When they realise they can gain from his death, they delve into morally grey areas.
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The true story of the conception of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill’s groundbreaking work, The Threepenny Opera, this play with music is funny, gripping and aesthetically compelling.
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‘Clybourne Park’ is an incisive look how racial ideas manifest in unexpected areas. Act I is set in 1959, and Act 2 in 2009. Both play out in the same house in Chicago. The catalyst is when Bev and Russ, a white couple, sell their house in 1959. Soon, they discover the house was sold to a black couple
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Number One Fan pleasantly surprised me with how well it tackles complex topics while still delivering some really funny punchlines. It was as much entertaining as it was thought-provoking.
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