A guide to modern panto
Published in The List 3 November 2023 If the culture wars were an actual thing rather than the delusions of some Tory sociopaths, where would pantomime be in the battle?…
Andy Arnold on Nae Expectations
The Guardian 18 October 2023 Andy Arnold is a director with staying power. Nae Expectations, which has just opened at Glasgow’s Tron theatre, is his swansong production after nearly 16…
Helen Enright on taking over Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre
The Scotsman 8 August 2023 Helen Enright is sitting in the circle of Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre and admiring the view. It is a splendid sight. Built by William “Bertie” Crewe…
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…