Dancing Shoes
The Guardian 26 March 2025 Your standard group-therapy drama involves people sitting in a circle revealing the trauma that put them on the path to addiction. Playwrights Stephen Christopher and…
Anna/Anastasia
The Guardian 1 October 2024 Anastasia is attempting to look regal in her mother’s tiara and her father’s military medals. Beneath her tunic, however, she wears no trousers. The look…
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, autumn 2024
The Scotsman 19 August 2024 Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a…
Douglas Maxwell on The Sheriff of Kalamaki
The Scotsman 19 September 2023 The story goes that Douglas Maxwell was on holiday in Greece when he met a man in a bar. The guy was a DJ with…
Meghan Tyler on Bloodbank
The Scotsman 6 June 2023 Meghan Tyler doesn’t do things by halves. They made their full-length playwriting debut in explosive style with Crocodile Fever, a Fringe hit for Edinburgh’s Traverse…
James Ley on Sally
The Scotsman 30 August 2022 It is turning out to be the summer of James Ley. First, the Traverse decided to revive its production of the playwright’s Wilf for the…
Goldilocks Goes to Greece
The Guardian 6 July 2022 If you must insist on a summer panto, then Greece is as good a destination as any. It also works for alliteration. And that is…
Jemima Levick on life in Scottish theatre’s fast lane
The Scotsman 3 February 2022 Jemima Levick is enjoying life in the fast lane. In her last job as artistic director of Stellar Quines, she was responsible for perhaps a…