Dear Billy
The Scotsman 9 May 2023 Gary McNair likes a long subtitle. The one he has come up with for his latest one-man show is A Love Letter To The Big…
Imogen Stirling on turning the seven deadly sins into ‘poetry you can dance to’
The Scotsman 3 May 2023 Imogen Stirling did not set out to publish another poetry collection. She sees herself as a performance poet; one for whom the spoken word takes…
Sean And Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It
The Scotsman, 31 March 2023 When you hear they’re putting on a comedy about two men running a Glasgow ice-cream van, you think immediately of the city’s notorious turf wars.…
Stornoway, Quebec: The making of a ‘Gaelic Western’
The Scotsman 24 March 2023 We all have afternoons we will never get back. First-time playwright Calum L MacLeòid had one when he was supposed to be writing Stornoway, Quebec.…
Educating Rita
The Scotsman 3 March 2023 Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is a comedy about a clash of cultures. On one hand, there is Frank, the worldly professor, bookish and secure. On…
A Mother’s Song
The Scotsman 8 February 2023 Most of us have little sense of family history beyond our grandparents. Go a few generations back and things get vague. But one way the…
Nicole Cooper on Macbeth (An Undoing)
The Scotsman 31 January 2023 It is a conundrum for any actor playing Lady Macbeth. Things start off the way you would expect in Shakespeare’s tragedy as she greets her…
Manipulate festival 2023
The Scotsman 23 January 2023 You never know quite where you are with Manipulate, and that is more the case than ever this year with Edinburgh’s annual festival of visual…