Nicole Cooper on Macbeth (An Undoing)
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…
Manipulate festival 2023
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…
Ones to watch in 2023: Eilidh Loan
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…
Jordan Young on Snow White
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…
Ross MacKay on Treasure Island
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…
Colin McCredie on playing Captain Hook
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…
Enough of Him
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…
Sally Reid on playing Shirley Valentine
The Scotsman 4 October 2022 The first thing actor Sally Reid and director Elizabeth Newman had to decide on was the accent. Would Reid play Shirley Valentine with her native…
Jordan & Skinner on their feminist retelling of The Time Machine
The Scotsman 28 September 2022 HG Wells was a visionary. It is not only that his 1895 novella introduced the phrase “time machine” to the language, it is also that…