Cathy
The Guardian 10 August 2026 Eilidh Loan marked her arrival as a playwright with Moorcroft, a tremendous male-centred comedy inspired by her father’s amateur football team. Now she has moved…
Water Colour
The Guardian 8 August 2026 It is rare to come out of a show raving about the structure, but the unusual plotting distinguishes Milly Sweeney’s two-hander. The young playwright’s theme…
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.…
Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door
The Guardian 25 February 2026 Milly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitlochry last year, her play Water Colour, about the changing states of mind of two…
Gallus in Weegieland
The Guardian 23 November 2025 More than the odd playwright has discovered to their cost that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is harder to adapt than they might suppose. Yes, Lewis…
There’s a Place
The Scotsman 8 October 2024 In Perth Theatre’s rehearsal room, they have made a display of early-1960s paraphernalia. It is to get the cast in the mood for There’s A…
Chemo Savvy
The Guardian 19 August 2024 What a lovely thing to have done. When the great actor Andy Gray was being treated for leukaemia before his Covid-related death in 2020, his…
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…
Shirley Valentine
The Guardian 24 October 2022 Willy Russell’s 1986 monologue is addressed to a kitchen wall. Stuck with domestic chores and a rigid catering schedule – if it’s Thursday, it must…
Sally Reid on playing Shirley Valentine
The Scotsman 4 October 2022 The first thing actor Sally Reid and director Elizabeth Newman had to decide on was the accent. Would Reid play Shirley Valentine with her native…