Anna Karenina
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…
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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…
The Guardian 3 April 2023 With the long-running Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), playwright Isobel McArthur lit upon a winning technique – one as exhilarating as it was counterintuitive. You…
The Scotsman, 31 March 2023 When you hear they’re putting on a comedy about two men running a Glasgow ice-cream van, you think immediately of the city’s notorious turf wars.…
The Scotsman 24 March 2023 We all have afternoons we will never get back. First-time playwright Calum L MacLeòid had one when he was supposed to be writing Stornoway, Quebec.…