Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning
The Guardian 8 September 2023 Liz Kettle makes a striking Dracula. Fingers spindly, hair swept back, black cloak voluminous, she possesses the ability to pop up at will on Kenneth…
Andy McGregor on Battery Park
The Scotsman 7 September 2023 Plays about rock bands have a tricky path to navigate. By necessity, they are performed by actors, but to be convincing, those actors have to…
Ann Marie Di Mambro on Tally’s Blood
The Scotsman 5 September 2023 Ann Marie Di Mambro teaches on a television writing course at Glasgow Caledonian University. She gives her students one crucial piece of advice. As she…
To the Bone
The Guardian 1 September 2023 On the face of it, there is little overlap between the two new plays that complete the summer season in Pitlochry. Where Peter Arnott’s Group…
Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
The Guardian 31 August 2023 Peter Arnott’s elegiac new play is suspended between past and future. The past is represented by Will (Robbie Scott), a dead child whose ghost haunts…
Morna Pearson on Dracula: Mina’s Story
The Scotsman 22 August 2023 Morna Pearson is partial to a bit of True Blood and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. That could be why she did not hesitate when the…
Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
The Scotsman 11 August 2023 How long does it take to write a play? If you ask Peter Arnott you might be surprised by the answer. He has been working…
What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed
The Guardian 12 August 2023 Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star Gavin Pringle in What You See When Your Eyes Are…
Lightning Ridge/Grow
The Guardian 11 August 2023 If the idea of imaginary friends strikes you as juvenile, consider the act of theatregoing. What does an audience do if not pretend to be…
Adults
The Guardian 9 August With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded two plays in one. The first is a sex farce about a middle-aged man paying his first call…