Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood
The Guardian 13 June 2022 At first, you assume Lesley Hart’s play is a straight adaptation of A Study in Scarlet, the first of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels about Sherlock…
Medea remixed for Bard in the Botanics
The Scotsman 11 June 2022 This summer’s Bard in the Botanics season has been hit by two intriguing coincidences. Both are the result of the pandemic and both made the…
Laurel and Hardy
The Guardian 8 June 2022 Movie director Leo McCarey has a proposal for producer Hal Roach. He has seen Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel acting in the same silent short,…
Noises Off
The Guardian 5 June 2022 The actors in Noises Off have to play two parts. And they have to play them three times. First, in Michael Frayn’s 40-year-old farce-within-a-farce, they…
Sunshine on Leith
The Guardian 2 June 2022 We’ve romped most of the way through Life With You, the title track from the Proclaimers’ seventh album, when the lead actors fade out of…