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: 348

Other Articles: 4

Summerhall

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego

A slow seduction that ultimately packs a punch

Festival Theatre

How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical

A picture-perfect display of Seuss’ spark (with some added sparkle) on stage

Traverse Theatre

The Monstrous Heart

A sharp, funny and super spooky performance that is perfectly polished

Edinburgh Playhouse

Annie

Sparky revival fizzes with energy

Traverse Theatre

Black Men Walking

Thought-provoking theatre about racial identity

Quaker Meeting House

Little Rabbit

Gripping modern day Brothers Grimm tale

Pleasance Dome

Confirmation

A courageous exuberant celebration of life

Summerhall

The Claim

Audacious assault on asylum process

Gilded Balloon Teviot

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies… Kind of. 2019

Mildly lacklustre tribute to Marvel movies

ZOO Southside

Ritualia

Effortlessly sinuous contemporary dance

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