Scenes for Survival, 2nd round-up, NTS, online
The Guardian 4 Aug 2020 DURING the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has been collecting what it calls Pandemic Objects: artefacts that have taken on new…
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The Guardian 4 Aug 2020 DURING the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has been collecting what it calls Pandemic Objects: artefacts that have taken on new…
The Guardian 31 July 2020 The 1980s brought us one-hit wonders such as Nena, Falco and Men Without Hats. To that list, playwright David F Ross would like us to…
The Guardian 28 July 2020 Stories to Connect Us is the name given by the Glasgow company Wonder Fools to its online season – and with good reason. In our…
Scotland on Sunday 26 July 2020 It was a family holiday somewhere in the Republic of Ireland. I don’t remember the name of the town, but it must have been…
The Guardian 2 June 2020 We never ask the right question of the future,” says David Greig, artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum theatre. “If you’d asked me six months…
The Guardian, 27 May 2020 THERE’S a special joy in seeing a familiar character in an unfamiliar place. Take John Rebus. Solitary curmudgeon he may be, but Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh…
TheatreVoice 2 April 2020 Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate director and three as artistic director. Now in her…
The Guardian 19 April 2020 Many theatre-makers have responded to the coronavirus lockdown by seeking to re-create a sense of community. Whether it’s the Zoom-based talking heads of the Show…
The Guardian 1 April 2020 The story used to be about how enormous the Edinburgh fringe had become. As long ago as 1961, theatre director Gerard Slevin argued it would…
The Guardian 16 March 2020 It’s the second half of Neil Simon’s comedy when things kick off. After the sweet-tempered wisecracks before the interval, the mood has turned sour. Corie…