The Long Drop
The Guardian 12 June 2026 On the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – half courtroom, half saloon – there is a faded poster of The Searchers, John Ford’s…
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…
Moonset review
The Guardian 8 February 2023 When you see the gang of teenagers who form a midnight coven in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, you think of Shakespeare’s Macbeth,…
Wings Around Dundee
The Guardian 10 September 2021 For the seagulls, the locked-down streets of Dundee offer slim pickings. They’re lucky to find a bin bag, never mind a discarded takeaway. No wonder…
Distance Remaining
The Guardian 14 April 2021 Like the virus itself, online theatre has come in waves. For much of its 75-minute duration, Stewart Melton’s play seems to belong to the first…