Moonset review
The Guardian 8 February 2023 When you see the gang of teenagers who form a midnight coven in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, you think of Shakespeare’s Macbeth,…
Ones to watch in 2023: Eilidh Loan
The Scotsman 7 January 2023 Theatre is a precarious business. So much can happen between commission and production, it’s best nobody gets their hopes up. That is why Eilidh Loan…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Guardian 27 November 2022 Holywood repeats itself, first as musical, second as panto. If you have never imagined Dorothy in drag, well, you have never reckoned on Johnny McKnight,…
La Performance
The Guardian 14 October 2022 What’s not to like? You’ve got Ramesh Meyyappan, the beguiling physical theatre performer who, in shows such as Off-Kilter, has displayed a winning combination of…
Underwood Lane
The Guardian 8 July 2022 John Byrne is not a playwright you associate with jukebox musicals. The Slab Boys author – who, as a painter, is being celebrated in a…
Underwood Lane
The Scotsman 27 June 2022 Hilary Brooks is bubbling with excitement. It is not only that she is back in the rehearsal room as musical director after so long in…
Who Killed My Father
The Scotsman 4 May 2022 Édouard Louis is known primarily as a novelist – and an astonishing one at that – but that hasn’t stopped him also becoming the darling…
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir interview
The Scotsman 26 April 2022 Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic Audiences are being treated to a double helping of director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre this spring. No sooner has…
Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything
The Guardian 25 March 2022 It’s the middle of the night and Murph has called her sister Jos for a chat. On her mind are the relative qualities of Julie…