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,…
Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed
The Guardian 7 June 2025 The title comes from a short story about two hikers on a camping trip. They decide to cast off their clothes and walk through the…
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2025
The Guardian 28 May 2025 If you think Peter Pan had problems with his shadow, you should see what Tangram Kollektiv have to contend with. In the German-French company’s clever…
Keli review
The Guardian, 16 May 2025 Towards the end of Martin Green’s brass-infused play for the National Theatre of Scotland, there is a resonant metaphor. It makes the connection between directing…
Restless Natives
The Guardian 30 April 2025 One of the stories British cinema loves to tell is of working-class characters defeating the privations of Thatcherism using wit and creativity. In Brassed Off…
Lau’s Martin Green on Keli
Scotland on Sunday 24 April 2025 Whappens when a composer becomes a playwright? Take the case of Martin Green. He is the accordionist best known for his work with Lau,…
Through the Shortbread Tin review
The Guardian 7 April 2025 Martin O’Connor calls it “the first Outlander effect”. He is thinking about how an image of a country catches on and, factual or otherwise, comes…
Dancing Shoes
The Guardian 26 March 2025 Your standard group-therapy drama involves people sitting in a circle revealing the trauma that put them on the path to addiction. Playwrights Stephen Christopher and…