Posts under ‘Theatre’

My latest showreel is now online.

As they try to come to terms with things long buried and left unsaid, their childhood landscape of shame, confusion and doubt is brought into sharp focus as they go through some emotional shape-shifting of their own.
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A new play by Matthew
‘The Kelpie’ is widely known as a devious creature lurking in the depths of highland lochs. But with no real proof of its actual existence, does this demon only really live within the minds of cruel men and scared children?
When two grown brothers reunite, following the death of their Uncle, they [...]

A four star review from Joyce McMillan of the Scotsman.
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SWEET HOME BALMAHA, ORAN MOR, GLASGOW **** reviewed By JOYCE MCMILLAN

A four star review from Shona Craven of the Herald.
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Sweet Home Balmaha, Oran Mor, Glasgow reviewed by SHONA CRAVEN

Written by Alan Massie and directed by David MacLennan, Triumvirate is the latest in the A play A pie and a pint lunchtime theatre. Set at a key point in the history of the Roman Empire, the action follows Caesar’s son, Octavian (Matthew McVarish), as he joins forces with two older men, Lepidus (Findley Welsh) [...]

Novelist and Playwright Allan Massie uses his expert’s knowledge of Ancient Rome in which to set a fascinating exercise in theatrical conflict. He seizes upon the historical meeting of Octavian Caesar, Mark Antony and Lepidus, the backdrop to Antony and Cleopatra, and unleashes from it the eternal potential of the three-way relationship to create exquisite [...]

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Blame Alex Garland’s The Beach if you must, but there’s nothing worse than meeting a young person who’s just been travelling. You know the sort, wispily bearded, white Rasta stoner-types with faraway eyes, foggy philosophical notions and the inevitable didgeridoo in their rucksacks they’re planning on taking on WOMAD. These are just the sort of [...]

If cruel detachment is the name of Joe Orton’s comic game, the increasingly powerful Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell is involved in something else entirely: a long, rueful meditation on a kind of Scottish small-town provincialism which he loves to mock and criticise, but from which he can never completely distance himself. Nevertheless, his new 40-minute [...]

I’m sure we all dream when young of what we might be, but few of us realise our childhood ambitions. One Man Went to Busk is a simple yet effective telling of the story of someone who did. It tells the tale of Matthew, who starts as a busker in Glasgow and more or less [...]