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David Pollock

Edinburgh

Freelance Arts, Culture and Feature Writer at Freelance

Freelance arts, culture and feature writer. Music, comics, theatre, art, film. Stories.

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  • Bruce Watson recalls when 'stars aligned' for Big Country as cult film soundtrack makes its way to Perth stage

    1 week ago | thecourier.co.uk | David Pollock |Rebecca Baird

    “It’s one of those cliches where the stars were aligned,” says Big Country’s Bruce Watson. He’s reminiscing over the recording of the Dunfermline band’s soundtrack for the 1985 Scottish cult film Restless Natives, which will be revived in stage musical form at Perth Theatre this week. “Without being asked, I don’t think any of that music would have been heard,” he continues.

  • charming new musical

    3 weeks ago | thestage.co.uk | David Pollock

    This musical aimed at children aged six and up represents a big moment for the Musicals Commissioning Hub, a collaboration between Edinburgh’s Capital Theatres (which administers the city’s Festival and King’s Theatres) and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. It’s the first full production to emerge from this new musical-theatre incubator hub, founded in 2021 both as a response to the Covid-related difficulties that the industry faced and as a means of finding and fostering new voices in the field.

  • Pigs on stilts: All you need to know before you see Animal Farm at Perth Theatre

    4 weeks ago | thecourier.co.uk | David Pollock |Rebecca Baird

    Animal Farm isn’t a new story, but Orwell’s famous fable proved its 2025 relevance in this adaptation. Here’s all you need to know as Napoleon and Squealer take over Perth Theatre:What is it? Bolton Octagon Theatre’s production of George Orwell’s famous 1945 fable Animal Farm, now on tour around the country, in which the irresponsible and uncaring Mr Jones, owner of Manor Farm, dies and his animals are left in control of their own destiny.

  • Dancing Shoes review

    4 weeks ago | thestage.co.uk | David Pollock

    “No misery, only hard-earned joy”ReviewsÒran Mór, GlasgowCraig Mclean, Stephen Docherty and Ross Allan in Dancing Shoes at Òran Mór, Glasgow. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan This is the second play in the current A Play, a Pie and a Pint series directed by its new artistic director Brian Logan, formerly of Camden People’s Theatre; it’s also the second by writing team Stephen Christopher and Graeme Smith, after last year’s The Scaff.

  • Liam Rees’ fun solo show about truth-telling

    1 month ago | thestage.co.uk | David Pollock

    “Fun and fast-paced”ReviewsFestival Theatre Studio, EdinburghLiam Rees in The Land That Never Was at Festival Theatre Studio, Edinburgh.

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