Silkworm
The Guardian 13 August 2022 Imagine coming under such ferocious interrogation about your private life that the questions start to wheedle their way into your relationship. Such is the case…
Medea
The Guardian 14 August 2022 Everybody is larger than life in Michael Boyd’s tremendous staging of Liz Lochhead’s play, still queasily contentious 2,500 years after the Euripides original. In one…
The Not So Ugly Duckling
The Guardian 18 August 2022 I’m no fan of seagulls – only the other day, one of them snatched a sandwich out of my hand – but I’ve never thought…
The Bush
The Guardian 18 August 2022 Towards the end of this one-woman show, writer/performer Alice Mary Cooper wonders out loud what the moral of her story is. She offers some possibilities…
With the Devil’s Assistance
The Guardian 18 August 2022 As we see all the time in pop music, good things happen when styles collide. Perhaps there have been others before her, but Shona Cowie…
Muster Station: Leith
The Guardian 19 August 2022 Climate campaigners have been sounding the alarm for decades, but only now the days are getting hot and the rivers are running dry have they…
Nightlands
The Guardian 5 August 2022 Who exactly is the enemy currently laying waste to Ukraine? There was a time the answer would have been easy. Those of us who grew…
An Edinburgh festival to dazzle
The Scotsman 27 July 2022 What was it theatregoers missed most during the months of lockdown? It is a question vexing arts promoters even now. Anecdotal evidence suggests audiences are…
East Lothian: Festival vibes on the coast, but without the crowds
The Scotsman 22 July 2022 For all the fanfare about a full-strength Fringe returning to the streets of Edinburgh, not everyone will be delighted at the prospect of 3000-odd shows…
Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see
The Guardian 6 July 2022 MedeaThe Hub Liz Lochhead’s adaptation of the Euripides tragedy was the sensation of the 2000 fringe – and again the following year. Now it is…