Underwood Lane
The Scotsman 27 June 2022 Hilary Brooks is bubbling with excitement. It is not only that she is back in the rehearsal room as musical director after so long in…
Medea remixed for Bard in the Botanics
The Scotsman 11 June 2022 This summer’s Bard in the Botanics season has been hit by two intriguing coincidences. Both are the result of the pandemic and both made the…
Oh When The Saints: Bringing St Johnstone’s Scottish Cup triumph to the stage
The Scotsman 21 May 2022 Sometimes you get so used to defeat that the possibility of victory is scary. That is the case for Bobby, a supporter of St Johnstone…
Sunshine on Leith
The Scotsman 6 May 2022 The scene is a wedding. Tying the knot is theatre director Ben Occhipinti. His friend and colleague Elizabeth Newman has volunteered to lead the congregation…
Who Killed My Father
The Scotsman 4 May 2022 Édouard Louis is known primarily as a novelist – and an astonishing one at that – but that hasn’t stopped him also becoming the darling…
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir interview
The Scotsman 26 April 2022 Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic Audiences are being treated to a double helping of director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre this spring. No sooner has…
Ralph Riach obituary
The Guardian 1 April 2022 If there is one role that epitomised the quirky charm of the actor Ralph Riach, it was John James McIver in Hamish Macbeth. Riach, who…
Giles Terera on The Meaning of Zong
The Scotsman 1 April 2022 Such was the wealth of material Giles Terera came across when he started work on The Meaning of Zong, he thought he might have two…
‘It’s wild with grief’ – Douglas Maxwell on adapting Orphans for the stage
The Scotsman 18 March 2022 Douglas Maxwell has written a Peter Mullan dictionary. He felt he had to. Tasked with adapting Mullan’s award-winning movie Orphans for the stage, the playwright…
Rewiring The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar for the internet age
The Scotsman 11 March 2022 Ben Harrison wonders if he were a little too young when he first came across Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. He must…