Who Killed My Father
The Scotsman 4 May 2022 Édouard Louis is known primarily as a novelist – and an astonishing one at that – but that hasn’t stopped him also becoming the darling…
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir interview
The Scotsman 26 April 2022 Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic Audiences are being treated to a double helping of director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre this spring. No sooner has…
Giles Terera on The Meaning of Zong
The Scotsman 1 April 2022 Such was the wealth of material Giles Terera came across when he started work on The Meaning of Zong, he thought he might have two…
‘It’s wild with grief’ – Douglas Maxwell on adapting Orphans for the stage
The Scotsman 18 March 2022 Douglas Maxwell has written a Peter Mullan dictionary. He felt he had to. Tasked with adapting Mullan’s award-winning movie Orphans for the stage, the playwright…
Rewiring The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar for the internet age
The Scotsman 11 March 2022 Ben Harrison wonders if he were a little too young when he first came across Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. He must…
Yes! Yes! UCS! New play recalls Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ dispute of 1970s
The Scotsman 4 March 2022 Outside the theatre where Yes! Yes! UCS! is being staged, you’ll see a blackboard. Audiences are free to chalk up messages on the way out.…
Finn and Lewis Den Hertog
TheatreVoice 1 March 2022 The sons of actor Ann Louise Ross and production manager Nils Den Hertog, brothers Finn and Lewis Den Hertog spent their formative years in and around…
Jemima Levick on life in Scottish theatre’s fast lane
The Scotsman 3 February 2022 Jemima Levick is enjoying life in the fast lane. In her last job as artistic director of Stellar Quines, she was responsible for perhaps a…
Andy Arnold on his post-pandemic plans for the Tron
The Scotsman, 1 February 2022 Andy Arnold’s daughter recently brought him up short. Working in Formula One racing, she commented that you don’t want to finish a race stuck behind…
Prism: The Online Theatre Show Where the Audience Chooses the Ending
The Scotsman 25 January 2022 When Claire Wood turned her hand to online theatre last year, something unexpected happened. The playwright had always intended to make her play Roulette interactive,…