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…
The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It!
The Guardian 3 April 2026 If someone tells you this musical spin-off from the cult 1994 TV sitcom is like a pantomime, they won’t just mean the jokes. Having been…
Trolleydarity: the NTS show offering hospital patients ‘scratch n sniff staycations’
Scotland on Sunday 29 October 2025 The latest production by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) sounds a hoot. But if you want to see it, there is a catch.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Through the Shortbread Tin
The Scotsman 18 March 2025 When Martin O’Connor first talked to director Lu Kemp about his latest play, he thought she was using some unfamiliar theatrical terminology. What she liked…