Saint Joan
The Guardian 23 February 2026 When George Bernard Shaw’s play was about to open at what is now the Noël Coward theatre, the critic of the Times worried that the…
Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 theatre shows to see this summer
The Guardian 20 June 2025 Peter Pan has a pop fantasy, Faustus is in Africa, Brian Cox leads a banking satire and Billy Connolly meets the late Alasdair Gray. Elsewhere,…
Death of a Salesman
The Guardian 9 March 2025 He lies to gain status. His every deal is transactional. He exaggerates for effect. He is seduced by money, deluded about his importance and clearly…
So Young
The Guardian 8 August 2024 Instead of Chekhov’s gun, we have Maxwell’s whisky. The bottle of Japanese spirits shows up early in Douglas Maxwell’s comedy of social awkwardness and at…
James V: Katherine
The Guardian 11 April 2024 Anyone with half an eye on today’s global politics will know bad things happen when religious zealots come face to face. The same is true…
Ones to watch in 2024: Catriona Faint
The Scotsman 8 January 2024 Call it chance, call it versatility, but so far in her short career Catriona Faint has played more men than women. As a student at…
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…