Educating Rita
The Scotsman 3 March 2023 Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is a comedy about a clash of cultures. On one hand, there is Frank, the worldly professor, bookish and secure. On…
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The Scotsman 3 March 2023 Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is a comedy about a clash of cultures. On one hand, there is Frank, the worldly professor, bookish and secure. On…
The Scotsman 8 February 2023 Most of us have little sense of family history beyond our grandparents. Go a few generations back and things get vague. But one way the…
The Scotsman 31 January 2023 It is a conundrum for any actor playing Lady Macbeth. Things start off the way you would expect in Shakespeare’s tragedy as she greets her…
The Scotsman 23 January 2023 You never know quite where you are with Manipulate, and that is more the case than ever this year with Edinburgh’s annual festival of visual…
The Scotsman 9 January 2023 Tish Tindall was as surprised as anyone when she heard David Gest wanted to meet her. It is not that Tindall was new to showbiz…
The Scotsman 7 January 2023 Theatre is a precarious business. So much can happen between commission and production, it’s best nobody gets their hopes up. That is why Eilidh Loan…
The Scotsman 8 December 2022 Edinburgh panto lovers have needed patience this year. While the King’s is being refurbished, the annual mirth-fest led by Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Jordan…
The Scotsman 30 November 2022 When Ross MacKay was a boy, he loved nothing more than to write. He was not sporty, but give him a blank piece of paper…
The Scotsman 8 November 2022 It is not a question most of us ever have to worry about it, but for an actor it could make all the difference: on…
7 October 2022 The Scotsman It is a landmark case in Scottish legal history. In 1778, Joseph Knight persuaded the courts he should be free to leave the employment of…