Silkworm
The Guardian 13 August 2022 Imagine coming under such ferocious interrogation about your private life that the questions start to wheedle their way into your relationship. Such is the case…
Medea
The Guardian 14 August 2022 Everybody is larger than life in Michael Boyd’s tremendous staging of Liz Lochhead’s play, still queasily contentious 2,500 years after the Euripides original. In one…
The Not So Ugly Duckling
The Guardian 18 August 2022 I’m no fan of seagulls – only the other day, one of them snatched a sandwich out of my hand – but I’ve never thought…
The Bush
The Guardian 18 August 2022 Towards the end of this one-woman show, writer/performer Alice Mary Cooper wonders out loud what the moral of her story is. She offers some possibilities…
With the Devil’s Assistance
The Guardian 18 August 2022 As we see all the time in pop music, good things happen when styles collide. Perhaps there have been others before her, but Shona Cowie…
Muster Station: Leith
The Guardian 19 August 2022 Climate campaigners have been sounding the alarm for decades, but only now the days are getting hot and the rivers are running dry have they…
The Comedy of Errors
The Guardian 28 August 2022 Ephesus is quite the place. It has its name in stage lights and you only have to open a door to hear the sound of…
Sister Radio
The Guardian 28 August 2022 Fatemeh has just introduced her sister Shirin to her boyfriend and is excited to know what she thinks of him. Shirin is being guarded and…
James Ley on Sally
The Scotsman 30 August 2022 It is turning out to be the summer of James Ley. First, the Traverse decided to revive its production of the playwright’s Wilf for the…
Dominic Hill on The Comedy of Errors
The Scotsman 5 August 2022 You can’t fault Dominic Hill for perseverance. Last summer, the artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre staged The Comedy Of Errors as part of Scottish…