One of Two
The Guardian 8 August 2022 The real drama of Jack Hunter’s one-man play kicks in halfway through. After a meandering chat about his childhood, cheery but largely unremarkable, he plays…
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel
The Guardian 12 August 2022 On the back wall there is a notice saying: “Please rinse and sanitise.” Over to the right a poster from Equity, the union for performers…
This Is Memorial Device
The Guardian 17 August 2022 A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic…
Burn
The Guardian 7 August 2022 “And still my motto is: I dare,” says Alan Cumming at the end of his ravishing one-man evocation of Robert Burns. And if the Ayrshire…
Irvine Welsh’s Porno
The Guardian 14 August 2022 For all that the characters of Trainspotting lurked on the perilous fringes, they were at least young enough for the slogan “choose life” to be…
Svengali
The Guardian 6 August 2022 How do you represent male power on stage without replicating the very structures you want to challenge? The solution in Eve Nicol’s absorbing play is…
Exodus
The Guardian 8 August 2022 It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and…
She Wolf
The Guardian 11 August 2022 Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our responses to threat. We do not need to think about them. Our animal instinct kicks in long before…
Wilf and Ode to Joy
The Guardian 11 August 2022 Who would have thought the writer who came to attention with a sweet play about a bookshop would return as one of the most scurrilous…
Under Another Sky
The Guardian 12 August 2022 There can’t be many plays in which the emotional turning point is an argument over Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament. But then there can’t be many…