Keli review
The Guardian, 16 May 2025 Towards the end of Martin Green’s brass-infused play for the National Theatre of Scotland, there is a resonant metaphor. It makes the connection between directing…
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The Guardian, 16 May 2025 Towards the end of Martin Green’s brass-infused play for the National Theatre of Scotland, there is a resonant metaphor. It makes the connection between directing…
The Guardian 1 May 2025 If you were the gambling kind, you would have hedged your bets on A Play, a Pie and a Pint. What chance of survival would…
The Guardian 30 April 2025 One of the stories British cinema loves to tell is of working-class characters defeating the privations of Thatcherism using wit and creativity. In Brassed Off…
Scotland on Sunday 24 April 2025 Whappens when a composer becomes a playwright? Take the case of Martin Green. He is the accordionist best known for his work with Lau,…
The Guardian 7 April 2025 Martin O’Connor calls it “the first Outlander effect”. He is thinking about how an image of a country catches on and, factual or otherwise, comes…
The Guardian 26 March 2025 Your standard group-therapy drama involves people sitting in a circle revealing the trauma that put them on the path to addiction. Playwrights Stephen Christopher and…
The Guardian 24 March 2025 It is the UK’s largest body of fresh water, its volume totalling more than all the lakes of England and Wales combined. It is also…
The Scotsman 18 March 2025 When Martin O’Connor first talked to director Lu Kemp about his latest play, he thought she was using some unfamiliar theatrical terminology. What she liked…
The Guardian 16 March 2025 If you can’t be sentimental in a show about country music, when can you be? The most affecting moments in this big-hearted musical come when…
The Guardian 9 March 2025 He lies to gain status. His every deal is transactional. He exaggerates for effect. He is seduced by money, deluded about his importance and clearly…