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…
Ian Rankin on Rebus: A Game Called Malice
The Scotsman 8 August 2024 Ian Rankin sells novels by the crateload and is riding the wave of television stardom thanks to Gregory Burke’s hard-hitting Rebus adaptation. The Edinburgh author,…
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson on Victor and Barry
The List 1 July 2024 Alan Cumming is sitting in his new Highlands home, a little poggled after a transatlantic flight. Boxes have still to be unpacked and the room…
Measure for Measure
The Scotsman 25 June 2024 It has been all steam ahead at Glasgow’s Bard In The Botanics, where director Jennifer Dick was already in rehearsals for Measure For Measure before…