Arts diary: A broken scene dock for the Playhouse and how Miss McGee became the new Ms McGee

The theatre’s dock, which is the access point for bringing sets in to the theatre - and the Playhouse has some pretty big ones, being home to touring West End musicals in the capital - was damaged when a scenery truck and its cab got stuck inside, a problem which I am told could be incredibly pricey to rectify.

In the meantime, sets for major shows are being brought in on large lorries, then all of the scenery and equipment decanted into a smaller truck, which has to be driven around the corner to the side access point of the theatre.

Theatre director Gordon Millar told me: “A piece of equipment that helps us get shows into the venue sustained damage during August and is currently under repair. There has been no reduction in getting productions into the venue or on the audience experience.”

Ms McGee becomes the new Ms McGee

Also at the Playhouse (as long as they can get the set in - jokes, Gordon, jokes) the legacy of late, legendary 1980s magician Paul Daniels continues. Just weeks after his nephew, James Phelan, performed his own magic show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Daniels’ former assistant - and wife - Debbie McGee, has been cast in a touring production of musical Grease and will be gracing our stages at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre and His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen as well as in Edinburgh.

Ms McGee, who originally trained as a ballet dancer before working with her husband, has been cast as Miss Lynch, an English teacher at Rydell High School, who is the stern, authority figure in the story - an evolution of the principal from the 1978 film who makes school announcements over the tannoy and attempting to control students’ behaviour at the risqué dance-off. However, perhaps the production team should have stuck with the original teacher’s name. She was called Miss McGee.

Outdoor move for Terminal V

It is a summer of firsts for Scotland’s largest electronic music festival, Terminal V which is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year with a move to Clydeside Live, a dedicated open air events space in development along the River Clyde.

The new location will feature a new main stage concept for Area V, with other renowned stages The Hangar and The Greenhouse reimagined for the outdoor setting, the first time the event has taken place entirely outside.

The dates for next year are 4 to 6 June - the first three day event in its history.

Record breaking dystopia at the Citz

The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow has revealed that its production of George Orwell’s 1984 has broken ticket sales records since the theatre reopened last September after a seven year refurbishment.

The play, which weaves the real-life story of Orwell himself with the plot of his bestselling dystopian novel, has received rave reviews at the Citz, which co-produced it with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Dundee Rep, where it is now touring.

I came out of it traumatised but wowed. Go and catch it on tour.