A Piano Full of Feathers
The Guardian 26 October 2025 The piano is full of feathers to keep the noise down. Irving Berlin liked to write at night and the feathers were his way to…
The Seagull
The Guardian 16 October 2025 It is quite something when Caroline Quentin dominates the stage. Quite something, because of the competition. One of the great strengths of this rewarding production…
The Glass Menagerie
The Guardian 9 October 2025 Christopher Jordan-Marshall breathes the evening into life. Gliding into the auditorium with the house lights up, he appears as Tom Wingfield, the narrator of Tennessee…
Maybe Tomorrow
The Guardian 7 October 2025 Imagine spending a career wanting to play the lead in Annie, to eventually realise you are only good for Miss Hannigan. That is the fate…
Night Waking
The Guardian 2 October 2025 Novelist Sarah Moss has expressed surprise at the relative lack of literature about parenthood. We are all children of someone, many of us parents too,…
Black Hole Sign
The Guardian 24 September 2025 A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT scan that suggests a haemorrhage on the brain. A black hole could also be…
Small Acts of Love
The Guardian 15 September 2025 What a joy to hear applause again in the Citz. The theatre’s seven-year renovation has been hard. In that time, many have been lost, including…
Our Brother
The Guardian 10 September 2025 If you met a genocidal dictator how would you react? For the Scottish academic who is granted an audience with Cambodia’s Pol Pot in Jack…
A Toast fae the Lassies
The Guardian 31 August 2025 Safe to say that Agnes Broun, Jean Armour and the woman known only as Clarinda never met at the grave of Robert Burns to commemorate…