Robert Peacock
@peaky76
Robert is the Managing Editor of The Wee Review and has been writing for the site since 2014. Previously, he was manager of the Yorkshire arts website, digyorkshire. Having worked in the arts, charity and horseracing sectors, he is now a full-time software engineer and lives in Edinburgh with his partner and two young daughters.
Reviews: 574
Other Articles: 271
A House In Asia
The operation to kill Bin Laden told in doll’s house miniature at Manipulate.
A Reliable Mirage: Three Pinter Shorts
Oppression, torture, mockery… and that’s just today’s news, reflected in these shorts by Black Dingo Productions
Fairport Convention
Folk legends clock up half a century with a night at Celtic Connections
Made In Perthshire
Show commissioned for 10th anniverary of Perth Concert Hall returns for two dates
Community Giant Awards presented in Glasgow
Good work in the community celebrated in a red carpet ceremony
Super Furry Animals
Early career retrospective revives a few forgotten favourites, but shouldn’t SFA be looking forward again?
Last Christmas
Sparse, and not very Christmassy, but this one-man Fringe piece is not without its charms.
Teenage Fanclub
Never an unwelcome sight on a Glasgow stage, but they miss a little spark
Kick Out The Jams
The political phrase du jour makes a convenient acronym but has sinister undertones
Too Long The Heart
Script hits weak spots in an otherwise satisfying production about an IRA kidnapping
Scottish PEN to crowdfund Writers’ Museum plaque
Writers’ organisation invites donations as it plans to mark its 90th birthday
Variety Night
Fringe favourites and local faces star in this innovation in the Lyceum’s programme
One Thinks Of It All As A Dream
Syd Barrett’s story affectionately told by Alan Bissett as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
Afrifest
The breadth of arts and culture from around the African diaspora is celebrated at Summerhall.
A Bench on the Road
Charioteer Theatre win our interest in the story of Italian immigration but don’t deliver on it
Frost / Nixon
EUTC dust off an old school political scandal we may end up looking back on fondly…
The Suppliant Women
David Greig’s opening production finds modern resonance in millennia old classic.