Life Is a Dream
The Guardian 3 November 2021 Segismundo has just woken up in a palace, having spent his life holed up in a tower. In Pedro Calderón’s extraordinary Spanish golden age drama,…
The Tempest
The Guardian 1 November 2021 The short-term forecast is for a storm – or maybe a squally shower – of Cop26-inspired Tempests. On 7 November, BBC Radio 3 is fielding…
The Covid Requiem
The Guardian 17 September 2021 We’ve read about it in the papers. We’ve seen it analysed on TV. We’ve chatted about it in Zoom meetings. But it’s only now, after…
Wings Around Dundee
The Guardian 10 September 2021 For the seagulls, the locked-down streets of Dundee offer slim pickings. They’re lucky to find a bin bag, never mind a discarded takeaway. No wonder…
This Is Paradise
The Guardian 26 August 2021 Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men in her life. There’s her gentle old Belfast dad, disappointed by the company she keeps, there’s…
Tickbox
The Guardian 18 August 2021 The first time it happened was when Lubna Kerr joined the Brownies. The future actor and comedian found the girls in her pack to be…
Doppler
The Guardian 12 August 2021 If there is one company well suited to adapting to the Covid pandemic it is Grid Iron. The Edinburgh specialist in site-responsive theatre is never…
Still
The Guardian 11 August 2021 I don’t think Frances Poet intends her play to be depressing. She has a dry wit, a vigorous way with words and moments of theatrical…
Sweet FA
The Guardian 10 August 2021 It was a day of celebration. The players from the North British Rubber Company (NBRC) in Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge had been pitched against their rivals from…