Don’t. Make. Tea.
The Guardian 24 March 2024 It is 2037 and the government has instituted a new system for assessing claims for disability benefits. Having listened to complaints about the old questionnaire,…
Sean and Daro Flake It ’Til They Make It
The Guardian 7 August 2023 Playwright Laurie Motherwell is sensitive about stereotypes. In a comedy about two working-class Glasgow lads with entrepreneurial ambitions, he repeatedly resists the temptation to lead…
Sean And Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It
The Scotsman, 31 March 2023 When you hear they’re putting on a comedy about two men running a Glasgow ice-cream van, you think immediately of the city’s notorious turf wars.…
One of Two
The Guardian 8 August 2022 The real drama of Jack Hunter’s one-man play kicks in halfway through. After a meandering chat about his childhood, cheery but largely unremarkable, he plays…
Edinburgh international children’s festival
The Guardian 31 May 2021 There’s a video for delegates to the Edinburgh international children’s festival showing a primary-school class responding to Katy Wilson’s film Mixed Up (5 and 6…
Lyceum Christmas Tales
The Guardian, 9 Dec 2020 How many ways are there to tell a story? The Lyceum comes close to an answer in this Advent masterclass in narrative technique. In the…
Scenes for Survival, 2nd round-up, NTS, online
The Guardian 4 Aug 2020 DURING the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has been collecting what it calls Pandemic Objects: artefacts that have taken on new…