Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In
The Guardian 29 April 2026 It was the early days of the Thatcher project. At the start of 1981, the free-market chill was about to lay waste to the Linwood…
Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In preview
Scotland on Sunday 15 April 2026 As coming-of-age stories go, it takes some beating. Maggie Wallace was just 20 and working as a machinist in the Lee Jeans factory in…
A View from the Bridge
The Guardian 26 February 2025 Is it an innocent domestic moment or a portent of something more ominous? It happens early enough in Jemima Levick’s thrilling production – her debut…
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, autumn 2024
The Scotsman 19 August 2024 Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a…
Douglas Maxwell on The Sheriff of Kalamaki
The Scotsman 19 September 2023 The story goes that Douglas Maxwell was on holiday in Greece when he met a man in a bar. The guy was a DJ with…
Cinderella, Dundee Rep
The Guardian 8 December 2022 You can see why Lynda Radley was wary about taking on Cinderella. How can a playwright give agency to a character who is exploited by…
Maggie May
The Guardian 13 May 2022 Frances Poet has form when it comes to dramatising illness. Her play Fibres (2019) was about a shipyard worker and his wife living with asbestosis.…
Jemima Levick on life in Scottish theatre’s fast lane
The Scotsman 3 February 2022 Jemima Levick is enjoying life in the fast lane. In her last job as artistic director of Stellar Quines, she was responsible for perhaps a…