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,…
The Girls of Slender Means
The Guardian 18 April 2024 We are in that open-ended time between a long collective trauma and the arrival of a Labour government. You will know the feeling, but this…
The Girls of Slender Means
The Scotsman 26 March 2024 In January 2018, the Edinburgh International Book Festival put on a celebration of Muriel Spark. Taking place in the Usher Hall on the eve of…
Adults
The Guardian 9 August With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded two plays in one. The first is a sex farce about a middle-aged man paying his first call…