Author: Mark Fisher

The Scotsman 29 May 2023 Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, Cal MacAninch started to hallucinate. The Trigger Point actor was in the midst of rowing the 3,000 miles…

The Guardian 29 May 2013 There’s something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Bertolt Brecht’s play, in which a woman trades her way through the 30 years’ war…

The Guardian 19 May 2023 There is an air of Nick Park’s Creature Comforts about Gary McNair’s “love letter” to Billy Connolly. The performer builds his joyful one-man show from interviews with…

The Guardian 18 May 2023 It must be Saturday because Anna Karenina and her husband, Alexei, are having sex. The act is passionless and mechanical. They are fully dressed, the…

The Scotsman 17 May 2023 Here’s a quiz question for you: how many classic Broadway musicals are there in which all the central roles are played by women? You have…

The Scotsman 9 May 2023 Gary McNair likes a long subtitle. The one he has come up with for his latest one-man show is A Love Letter To The Big…

The Guardian 3 May 2023 Hannah Lavery constructs her play from simple sentences. Her language is clear and direct. Each line builds on the last, with primary-school economy. At first,…

The Scotsman 3 May 2023 Imogen Stirling did not set out to publish another poetry collection. She sees herself as a performance poet; one for whom the spoken word takes…

The Scotsman 18 April 2023 As a theatre director, Joanna Bowman looks for two things in a play. First it should not be able to exist anywhere but the stage.…

The Guardian 9 April 2023 On the back wall of Becky Minto’s bar-room set, a temporary looking collection of rough-hewn wooden planks, are two framed slogans. One of them reads…