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Pitlochry Festival Theatre - Sister Radio production. Fatemeh has just introduced her sister Shirin to her boyfriend and is excited to know what she thinks of him. Shirin is being guarded and holds her tongue. “Say something,” says Fatemeh in frustration.
The irony is that Shirin says nothing – not just now but in half the scenes in Sara Shaarawi’s two-hander. We are already accustomed to her silence. Fast-forwarding into the future, she and Fatemeh live, two elderly ladies, in an Edinburgh tenement without saying a word. [READ MORE]
MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. He is also the editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (both Mark Fisher Ltd).