There’s a Place
The Scotsman 8 October 2024 In Perth Theatre’s rehearsal room, they have made a display of early-1960s paraphernalia. It is to get the cast in the mood for There’s A…
Oliver Emanuel obituary
The Guardian 2 January 2024 Oliver Emanuel, who has died aged 43 from brain cancer, was a playwright, teacher and radio dramatist who put his name to some of the…
A guide to modern panto
Published in The List 3 November 2023 If the culture wars were an actual thing rather than the delusions of some Tory sociopaths, where would pantomime be in the battle?…
Ann Marie Di Mambro on Tally’s Blood
The Scotsman 5 September 2023 Ann Marie Di Mambro teaches on a television writing course at Glasgow Caledonian University. She gives her students one crucial piece of advice. As she…
Educating Rita
The Scotsman 3 March 2023 Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is a comedy about a clash of cultures. On one hand, there is Frank, the worldly professor, bookish and secure. On…
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Guardian 27 November 2022 The temperature is rising in Middle Perth. Nobody says it in so many words but the opening salvo of songs tells you all you need…
Don Quixote: Man Of Clackmannanshire
The Scotsman 7 Sep 2022 The latest collaboration between Perth Theatre and Dundee Rep has had a slow gestation. The arrestingly titled Don Quixote: Man Of Clackmannanshire started life in…
Oh When The Saints: Bringing St Johnstone’s Scottish Cup triumph to the stage
The Scotsman 21 May 2022 Sometimes you get so used to defeat that the possibility of victory is scary. That is the case for Bobby, a supporter of St Johnstone…
Roald Dahl’s the Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The Guardian 28 March 2022 If you’re looking for narcissism, Rob Drummond offers it fourfold. His adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1977 short story is a hall of mirrors in which…
Cinderella
The Guardian, 28 November 2021 The modern adapter of Cinderella is faced with two questions. How to give agency to a central character who is subject not only to the…