The Scotsman 30 September 2021
The last time I interviewed Kieran Hurley for The Scotsman he was preparing for the end of the world. The performer and playwright was just about to stage Heads Up, a monologue about a city on the brink of collapse. “The main impulse for making the show is living in a world that feels like it’s built on disaster,” he told me.
Catching up with him in 2021, it seems like he was right. Heads Up itself was far from a catastrophe, going on to be named best play in the 2017 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. But much of the intervening time – not least the past 18 months – has felt apocalyptic. If the world didn’t exactly end, it certainly looked a lot more exposed. [READ MORE]