Enough of Him
The Guardian 25 October 2022 It is the start of May Sumbwanyambe’s uneasy drama and Joseph Knight (Omar Austin) is showing John Wedderburn (Matthew Pidgeon) the book he is reading.…
Enough of Him
7 October 2022 The Scotsman It is a landmark case in Scottish legal history. In 1778, Joseph Knight persuaded the courts he should be free to leave the employment of…
James IV: Queen of the Fight
The Guardian 5 October 2022 It’s a cosmopolitan place, the court of James IV of Scotland. In the earthy crucible of Jon Bausor’s set, you hear Spanish, French, Scots, Gaelic…
James IV: Queen of the Fight
The Guardian 13 September 2022 When an early draft of Rona Munro’s new play did the rounds, one of the first people to read it had a quibble. They said…
Burn
The Guardian 7 August 2022 “And still my motto is: I dare,” says Alan Cumming at the end of his ravishing one-man evocation of Robert Burns. And if the Ayrshire…
Exodus
The Guardian 8 August 2022 It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and…
Medea
The Guardian 14 August 2022 Everybody is larger than life in Michael Boyd’s tremendous staging of Liz Lochhead’s play, still queasily contentious 2,500 years after the Euripides original. In one…
‘It’s wild with grief’ – Douglas Maxwell on adapting Orphans for the stage
The Scotsman 18 March 2022 Douglas Maxwell has written a Peter Mullan dictionary. He felt he had to. Tasked with adapting Mullan’s award-winning movie Orphans for the stage, the playwright…
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Guardian 28 February 2022 Two years ago the idea would have been preposterous: why would anyone re-enact Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella in the dilapidated corridors and back rooms of…