Claire Wood

@cmfwood

Claire has a day job in advertising and an unofficial evening-time job haunting the theatres of Scotland. (And further afield, when she can find an excuse.) She's happiest just before curtain up.

www.cmfwood.blogspot.com

Reviews: 98

Other Articles: 4

Royal Lyceum Theatre

Hear Word!

Boisterous battle cry for equality

Summerhall

When I Fall…If I Fall

Touching, thoughtful theatre

Summerhall

Sea Sick

This decade’s An Inconvenient Truth – riveting

theSpace on Niddry Street

Trips And Falls

Ultimately touching student theatre

theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall

box.

Touching reflection on our obsession with things

ZOO Southside

Are we not drawn onward to new erA

A brilliant, beautiful requiem

Underbelly Cowgate

When The Birds Come

Coming of age story set amidst rising seas

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

(Untitled Project) #213

A beautiful tribute to the joyous wonder of love

WomanPilotPirate_66

Underbelly Bristo Square

Woman! Pilot! Pirate?

Inventive production of a confusing script about aviation

Summerhall

Before The End

A tender celebration of life, through a daughter’s eyes

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky

Thoughtful theatre with timely message

theSpace on the Mile

Bitch, Antigone

Sophocles’ classic goes camp

ZOO Southside

Staged

A visual feast defying expectation

C Venues - C Aquila

House of Hundred

Meander via a mansion through 100 years of Turkish history

Gilded Balloon Teviot

Anguis

New writing revisits ancient Pharaoh

Underbelly Cowgate

Great Grimm Tales

Rock and roll retelling of Grimm’s gloomy tales

Summerhall

All of Me

Defiant, macabre, majestic theatre

ZOO Southside

It Will Come Later

A disappointing collaboration between international choreographers

Church Hill Theatre

Roots

Ingenious, extraordinary revelry casting light on our stories’ origins

Pleasance Courtyard

The Last of the Pelican Daughters

Polished, carefully orchestrated production about the aftershock of grief

Underbelly Cowgate

Illegal

A thoughtful two-hander that asks pertinent political questions

RCS and AMTP stage Limbo - City of Dreams at the Fringe

Gilded Balloon @ Patter Hoose

Limbo: City of Dreams

Dreamy musical theatre brimming with hope

Lauriston Hall

Ali Affleck’s Speakeasy Sessions: A Night in New Orleans

A speakeasy to soothe your soul

Assembly George Square Studios

Mengele

Chilling vision of the Nazi doctor known as the Angel of Death