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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
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…
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.…
Exodus
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…
Wilf and Ode to Joy
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…
James Ley on Sally
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…