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…
The Great Gatsby
The Guardian 31 August 2025 The revealing thing about Sarah Brigham’s production of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic is the way it keeps erupting into dance. Any time things threaten…
Windblown
The Guardian 10 August 2025 If you thought there could not be a more Edinburgh-centric show than James Graham’s Make It Happen, with its appearances from Adam Smith and figures…
When Billy Met Alasdair
The Guardian 9 August 2025 There is a scene in Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel Lanark in which the author himself makes an appearance. He startles the eponymous hero, one of…
She’s Behind You
The Guardian 5 August 2025 She stands before us in a blue gingham frock, towering wig and a “hideous yet age-appropriate leisure shoe”. She is Dorothy Blawna-Gale and she is…
Kanpur: 1857
The Guardian 1 August 2025 When it comes to cruel and unusual punishment, it is hard to think of anything more grizzly than that meted out by the British army…
Reopening of the Citizens Theatre
The List 5 July 2025 Where were we? Oh, yes. It was April 2018 and the Citizens Theatre was rounding off its in-house spring season with Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s…
Man’s Best Friend
The Guardian 27 June 2025 A few blocks down the road on Argyle Street, a stall is promoting conspiracy theories about AstraZeneca. Every side is pasted with neurotic headlines misinforming…
Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer
The Guardian 20 June 2025 Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere,…