The Scotsman 19 August 2024

Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a Marilyn Imrie Fellowship, she was supposed to stay for three months. She clearly did something right because when her boss Jemima Levick announced her departure to take over the city’s Tron Theatre, they kept Noble on. And because of the gap before the arrival of incoming artistic director Brian Logan, it is Noble who has programmed the autumn season as associate director. It is, she says, her dream job.

“It’s been an amazing and unexpected treat,” says Noble, a graduate of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University and a playwright as well as a director. “To get the interim position and to programme a season is wild. It feels like my natural home.” [READ MORE]

By Mark Fisher

MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. He is also the editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (both Mark Fisher Ltd).