Arts 
Superstrings (City Halls)(0)
Sage Pearce-Higgins
“Wouldn’t it be great if we had a theory of everything?” This sentiment is likely to be expressed by a theoretical physicist, whose area of science has been searching for some sort of ‘Unified Field Theory’ since Albert Einstein coined the term.
The idea is to find some way of joining all the fundamental forces [...]
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Citizens Theatre)
Jo Shaw
My Name Is Rachel Corrie is one of the last decade’s most critically acclaimed pieces of political theatre for good reason.
Every sentence, joke and entreaty for the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is taken directly from the journals, blogs and answer machine messages left behind by Rachel Corrie; an American political activist who was [...]
The City (Tron Theatre)
Tom Bonnick
Martin Crimp’s The City — which was first performed in 2008 but feels older; as if perhaps it could have been written at any point in the last thirty years — is a strange, increasingly alarming play: after initially giving the impression of being a (slightly awkwardly staged) kitchen sink drama of sorts, it [...]
La Boheme (Theatre Royal)
Tom Bonnick
Everything that’s wrong with Stewart Laing’s adaptation and direction of Puccini’s immensely popular 1896 opera La Boheme — performed in Glasgow by the usually superb Scottish Opera — seems to be a consequence of the dramatic modernisation to which it has been subjected. That sounds like there’s a lot that’s bad, which isn’t true, [...]
