Trolleydarity: the NTS show offering hospital patients ‘scratch n sniff staycations’
Scotland on Sunday 29 October 2025 The latest production by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) sounds a hoot. But if you want to see it, there is a catch.…
Reopening of the Citizens Theatre
The List 5 July 2025 Where were we? Oh, yes. It was April 2018 and the Citizens Theatre was rounding off its in-house spring season with Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s…
Lau’s Martin Green on Keli
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,…
Through the Shortbread Tin
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…
There’s a Place
The Scotsman 8 October 2024 In Perth Theatre’s rehearsal room, they have made a display of early-1960s paraphernalia. It is to get the cast in the mood for There’s A…
Thank U, Next
The Scotsman 1 October 2024 If someone talked to you about bubblegum goth, would you know what they were on about? How about dark academia or angel-core? Would they be…
To Save the Sea
The Scotsman 16 September 2024 When you think about musical-theatre writing partnerships, you imagine earnest young people hunched over a piano in the Brill Building, batting musical phrases and lyrical…
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, autumn 2024
The Scotsman 19 August 2024 Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a…