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SCOTTISH THEATRE REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

Johnny McKnight as the Dame in the MacRobert's Sleeping Beauty 2009

25 November 2009 The Guardian

Interview: Johnny McKnight, pantomime dame

A MacRobert Arts Centre and Random Accomplice preview

IF you're planning on seeing Sleeping Beauty at Stirling's MacRobert this season – and all the omens suggest you should – don't set too much store by the advertised running time. Last year's festive offering, Mother Goose, lasted anything between two hours and two hours 40 minutes depending on how carried away writer and star Johnny McKnight became during any given performance.

1 November 2009 Scotland on Sunday

Pan's people

Feature about JM Barrie and Peter Pan.

PETER Pan might be the boy who wouldn't grow up, but he has no trouble proliferating. As we approach the 150th anniversary of the birth of JM Barrie, our appetite for the Kirriemuir writer's most famous creation appears to be insatiable. The boy from Neverland is everywhere.

Duncan McLean leads the Lone Star Swing Band in Long Gone Lonesome Pic: Rebecca Marr

21 October 2009 The Guardian

Long Gone Lonesome

By Duncan McLean. A National Theatre of Scotland review.

EVER since it started in 2006, Vicky Featherstone's National Theatre of Scotland has sought to redefine theatre. The company launched with a string of site-specific events in Aberdeen flats and Stornoway shops – and is now staging a show that is more country-and-western hoolie than conventional play. On an extensive Highland tour, Duncan McLean's Long Gone Lonesome is a curious hybrid of music and theatre that recalls the ceilidh spirit of John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil.

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