Night Waking
The Guardian 2 October 2025 Novelist Sarah Moss has expressed surprise at the relative lack of literature about parenthood. We are all children of someone, many of us parents too,…
Black Hole Sign
The Guardian 24 September 2025 A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT scan that suggests a haemorrhage on the brain. A black hole could also be…
She’s Behind You
The Guardian 5 August 2025 She stands before us in a blue gingham frock, towering wig and a “hideous yet age-appropriate leisure shoe”. She is Dorothy Blawna-Gale and she is…
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,…
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2025
The Guardian 28 May 2025 If you think Peter Pan had problems with his shadow, you should see what Tangram Kollektiv have to contend with. In the German-French company’s clever…
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…
A History of Paper
The Guardian 4 August 2024 When Oliver Emanuel was taken by brain cancer at 43, one friend observed that the playwright had “taught us how to die”. By all accounts,…
Manipulate festival 2024
The Guardian 5 February 2024 You can rely on Edinburgh’s Manipulate festival to give you something you have never seen before. This year, it comes in the form of Simple…
Same Team: A Street Soccer Story
The Guardian 14 December 2023 There is plenty of talent on the field, but the early game is marred by obvious set pieces. In this wish-fulfilment fantasy by Robbie Gordon…
Same Team preview
The Scotsman 12 December 2023 When Bryony Shanahan was launching herself as a theatre director, she went for an interview at the Manchester Royal Exchange. They asked her who her…