Ann Marie Di Mambro on Tally’s Blood
The Scotsman 5 September 2023 Ann Marie Di Mambro teaches on a television writing course at Glasgow Caledonian University. She gives her students one crucial piece of advice. As she…
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The Scotsman 5 September 2023 Ann Marie Di Mambro teaches on a television writing course at Glasgow Caledonian University. She gives her students one crucial piece of advice. As she…
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…
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…
The Guardian 7 August 2023 Early in Isobel McArthur’s head-spinning new comedy, there is a gag about the uniformity of hotel decor. The joke is plain to see. Ana Inés…
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.…
The Guardian 8 August 2022 It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and…
The Guardian 11 August 2022 Who would have thought the writer who came to attention with a sweet play about a bookshop would return as one of the most scurrilous…
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…
The Guardian 26 August 2021 Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men in her life. There’s her gentle old Belfast dad, disappointed by the company she keeps, there’s…
The Guardian 20 August 2021 If this were a regular show it would be something like One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, the adaptation of Craig Taylor’s micro-dramas originally serialised…