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Scotland on Sunday 15 April 2026 As coming-of-age stories go, it takes some beating. Maggie Wallace was just 20 and working as a machinist in the Lee Jeans factory in…
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Scotland on Sunday 15 April 2026 As coming-of-age stories go, it takes some beating. Maggie Wallace was just 20 and working as a machinist in the Lee Jeans factory in…
The Guardian 15 April 2026 There are few transitions in life more profound than becoming a parent. Out go late nights and long lie-ins. In comes responsibility. It is an…
The Guardian 3 April 2026 If someone tells you this musical spin-off from the cult 1994 TV sitcom is like a pantomime, they won’t just mean the jokes. Having been…
The Guardian 2 April 2026 The standard colour scheme for hospital dramas is clinical white. You expect gleaming walls and antiseptic surfaces, institutionally bright. Mai Katsume takes the opposite tack.…
The Guardian 24 March 2026 It has been a book, a play and a film. It has also spawned three sequels, a prequel and two soundtrack albums. Now, Irvine Welsh’s…
The Guardian 5 March 2026 The title is ironic. There is nothing legendary about Davie McKenzie. Scarcely out of prison after doing time for possession, the fictional hero of this…
The Guardian 26 February 2026 Productions of Samuel Beckett’s modernist classic often evoke the world of music hall. The duelling routines of Vladimir and Estragon recall the banter of old-time…
The Guardian 25 February 2026 Milly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitlochry last year, her play Water Colour, about the changing states of mind of two…
The Guardian 23 February 2026 When George Bernard Shaw’s play was about to open at what is now the Noël Coward theatre, the critic of the Times worried that the…
The Guardian 8 December 2025 It is rare for a family show to be both funny and spine-tinglingly creepy, but an achievement playwright Lewis Hetherington pulls off in his imaginative…