Happy Days
The Guardian 28 September 2026 Samuel Beckett’s play is always staged with a radiant brightness. It is hot enough to set a parasol alight. If, on its premiere in 1961,…
I’ll Be Seeing You
The Guardian 27 September 2026 Simon Russell Beale makes his entrance in mid-air, appearing some way above the stage in a heavenly haze of smoke and light. He flashes a…
Wiping My Mother’s Arse
The Guardian 22 August 2026 These days, shows about care homes, dementia and end of life are very common, but when Iain Heggie’s splendidly named Wiping My Mother’s Arse premiered…
A History of Paper
The Guardian 21 August 2026 It started as a BBC radio drama in 2016, and was reworked as a small-scale musical two years ago. Now, A History of Paper gets…
I Can Die Too
The Guardian 17 July 2026 If Frances Ruffelle fancied putting on a one-woman cabaret show, it would be pretty good. The West End and Broadway star has certainly pulled together…
Inexperience
The Guardian 20 June 2026 There is a clever conceit underlying Douglas Maxwell’s sparky romantic comedy. It imagines the possibility of a sexually charged relationship being sustained without physical contact.…
A Toast fae the Lassies
The Guardian 31 August 2025 Safe to say that Agnes Broun, Jean Armour and the woman known only as Clarinda never met at the grave of Robert Burns to commemorate…
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…