Nan Shepherd: Naked And Unashamed
The Scotsman 3 May 2024 Fame is fickle. Today, you can see the face of Nan Shepherd, set against a backdrop of Highland wilderness, on your Royal Bank of Scotland…
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2024
The Scotsman 26 April 2024 Noel Jordan likes to build his programmes for the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival organically. Rather than start with a rigid framework, he selects the productions…
Shō and the Demons of the Deep
The Scotsman 8 April 2024 Wouldn’t it be good if we could get rid of nightmares? That is the idea behind Shō And The Demons Of The Deep, a children’s…
Sunset Song
The Scotsman 29 March 2024 In 2016, BBC Scotland conducted a poll to determine Scotland’s favourite novel. The winner beat some formidable competition, coming in ahead of The Wasp Factory…
The Girls of Slender Means
The Scotsman 26 March 2024 In January 2018, the Edinburgh International Book Festival put on a celebration of Muriel Spark. Taking place in the Usher Hall on the eve of…
A Giant on the Bridge
The Scotsman 23 February 2024 You are driving down the street, joining in with a song on the radio at the top of your voice. We have all done it.…
Blythe Duff on Escaped Alone
The Scotsman 15 February 2024 Had we tried to run an article before Christmas about Blythe Duff’s latest role, the former Taggart actor would have had little to say. Even…
David Greig on Two Sisters
The Scotsman 6 February 2024 Can there be anything more British than a seaside caravan holiday? Surely this is the only nation whose idea of escape is staying on a…
Clare Duffy on Many Good Men
The Scotsman 30 January 2024 Playwright Clare Duffy set up her company Civic Digits to consider what it means to live in a world dominated by the internet. With a…
Spark – the Highland New Play Festival
The Scotsman 9 January 2024 The actor and director Matthew Zajac is extemporising a history of theatre in the Highlands and islands. He begins in the 1970s when he was…