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Gary McNair's warm-hearted stage adaptation of Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil features music by Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross. It runs at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh until 23 May. Read my review below. "The theatre x football crossover I didn't know I needed!" Dawn Steele in Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil. Photo: Aly Wright Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil play ★★★★☆ Review: 13 May 2026 | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil is the s

The first ever Scots language version of infamous play Mistero Buffo premiers at A Play, A Pie and A Pint in Glasgow this week. Described by the Vatican as "blasphemous" - Mistero Buffo is by Nobel-prize winning Italian writer Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame. Review: Mistero Buffo, Oran Mor, Glasgow | 7 May 2025 Lawrence Boothman in 'Mistero Buffo' Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Mistero Buffo, A Play, A Pie and A Pint 2025 ★★★★☆ A series of monologues traditionally perfo

Shirley Valentine review, A play by Willy Russell, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Sally Reid, Pitlochry Festival Theatre Production.