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…
Radiant Vermin
The Scotsman 14 June 2024 A few years ago, Julie Wilson Nimmo upped sticks and moved to Los Angles. She and her family – husband Greg Hemphill and their two…
Hedda Gabler
The Scotsman 1 June 2024 You have to admire Nicole Cooper’s stamina. She has only just finished her globe-conquering turn in Macbeth (An Undoing), Zinnie Harris’s radical rewrite in which…
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…