Exodus
The Guardian 8 August 2022 It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and…
She Wolf
The Guardian 11 August 2022 Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our responses to threat. We do not need to think about them. Our animal instinct kicks in long before…
Wilf and Ode to Joy
The Guardian 11 August 2022 Who would have thought the writer who came to attention with a sweet play about a bookshop would return as one of the most scurrilous…
Under Another Sky
The Guardian 12 August 2022 There can’t be many plays in which the emotional turning point is an argument over Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament. But then there can’t be many…
Silkworm
The Guardian 13 August 2022 Imagine coming under such ferocious interrogation about your private life that the questions start to wheedle their way into your relationship. Such is the case…
Medea
The Guardian 14 August 2022 Everybody is larger than life in Michael Boyd’s tremendous staging of Liz Lochhead’s play, still queasily contentious 2,500 years after the Euripides original. In one…
The Not So Ugly Duckling
The Guardian 18 August 2022 I’m no fan of seagulls – only the other day, one of them snatched a sandwich out of my hand – but I’ve never thought…
The Bush
The Guardian 18 August 2022 Towards the end of this one-woman show, writer/performer Alice Mary Cooper wonders out loud what the moral of her story is. She offers some possibilities…
With the Devil’s Assistance
The Guardian 18 August 2022 As we see all the time in pop music, good things happen when styles collide. Perhaps there have been others before her, but Shona Cowie…
Muster Station: Leith
The Guardian 19 August 2022 Climate campaigners have been sounding the alarm for decades, but only now the days are getting hot and the rivers are running dry have they…