To the Bone
The Guardian 1 September 2023 On the face of it, there is little overlap between the two new plays that complete the summer season in Pitlochry. Where Peter Arnott’s Group…
Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
The Guardian 31 August 2023 Peter Arnott’s elegiac new play is suspended between past and future. The past is represented by Will (Robbie Scott), a dead child whose ghost haunts…
Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
The Scotsman 11 August 2023 How long does it take to write a play? If you ask Peter Arnott you might be surprised by the answer. He has been working…
Guffy
The Guardian 5 August 2023 Many people hate spoilers. If you’re one of them please look away now. Because it is hard not to talk about Glenna Morrison’s play without…
Isla Cowan on To The Bone
The Scotsman 1 August 2023 In the space of a year, Isla Cowan has gone from urban to rural. Twelve months ago, the playwright was on stage in She Wolf,…
Elizabeth Newman on The Secret Garden
The Scotsman 26 June 2023 If you were to hazard a guess at Scotland’s ten most prolific playwrights, you would home in on a few likely candidates. They might reasonably…
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Guardian 8 June 2023 It must be tempting for an actor playing Blanche DuBois to be unhinged from the start. Once they know the emotional battering the character is…
Gypsy review
The Guardian 29 May 2013 There’s something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Bertolt Brecht’s play, in which a woman trades her way through the 30 years’ war…
Peter Pan and Wendy
The Guardian 25 November 2022 Captain Hook looks as if he has stepped out of the court of Louis XIV. His head is half wig, half galleon, buoyant on a…