Joyce McMillan
- Journalist
Press clippings
Theatre reviews: Daniel Kitson's Dot.Dot.Dot.
Designed for online performance from empty theatres across Britain, Dot.Dot.Dot. is essentially the 90-minute tale of Kitson's lockdown, told with the help of a table-full of post-it notes that sometimes act as a prompt for the next part of the story, but also - as Kitson holds them to the camera, his familiar bearded face glowing against the magnificent red plush backdrop of the auditorium - sometimes refer unsettlingly to events or anxieties about which the story remains silent. On his website, Kitson introduces his story with a series of negatives, emphasising that in his lockdSigal Firesown, he has not really done anything much at all except get through the days, mostly at his house in London.
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 3rd November 2020Theatre review: Benidorm Live!
Times are supposed to have moved on, in British popular culture, from the days when sex was a naughty holiday pastime conjured up in a McGill postcard, and homosexuality a joke patiently played out by John Inman in Are You Being Served; but sometimes, faced with the full-on showbiz energy of a show like Benidorm Live!, at the Playhouse this week, it's possible to wonder whether the changes are much more than skin deep.
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 22nd September 2018Review: Still Game Live 2 at the SSE Hydro
Despite a rousing standing ovation from the huge crowd, I'd be willing to bet that I wasn't alone in thinking that three hours of this particular voyage was just a little more than enough.
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 4th February 2017Comedy review: Eddie Izzard, Edinburgh
Although Izzard's big comedy gig at the Festival Theatre last night felt pretty much like a Better Together rally - Alistair Darling was there, along with other luminaries of the "No" cause - it was also, I would guess, one of the most positive and upbeat events that dour campaign has conjured up, so far.
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 5th April 2014