Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In
The Guardian 29 April 2026 It was the early days of the Thatcher project. At the start of 1981, the free-market chill was about to lay waste to the Linwood…
Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In preview
Scotland on Sunday 15 April 2026 As coming-of-age stories go, it takes some beating. Maggie Wallace was just 20 and working as a machinist in the Lee Jeans factory in…
What I’m Here For
The Guardian 2 April 2026 The standard colour scheme for hospital dramas is clinical white. You expect gleaming walls and antiseptic surfaces, institutionally bright. Mai Katsume takes the opposite tack.…
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…
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…
Through the Shortbread Tin review
The Guardian 7 April 2025 Martin O’Connor calls it “the first Outlander effect”. He is thinking about how an image of a country catches on and, factual or otherwise, comes…
A View from the Bridge
The Guardian 26 February 2025 Is it an innocent domestic moment or a portent of something more ominous? It happens early enough in Jemima Levick’s thrilling production – her debut…
Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell
The Guardian 27 November 2024 I seen regular productions of Peter Pan that treat the death of Tinker Bell more casually than it is handled here by writer, director and…
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson on Victor and Barry
The List 1 July 2024 Alan Cumming is sitting in his new Highlands home, a little poggled after a transatlantic flight. Boxes have still to be unpacked and the room…