The Guardian 6 August 2024

On the way out, I hear someone tell his friends he had been educated at Watson’s, the £17,000-a-year alma mater of Malcolm Rifkind and David Steel. Safe to say his schooling had little in common with that of Max and Stevie, the youngsters we met in the 2018 hit comedy Square Go, who are now en route to the Hammerston high school end-of-second-year disco.

In the first instalment, the boys were dealing with playground violence. In this sequel, playwrights Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair subject them to an equally excruciating rite of passage. [READ MORE]

By Mark Fisher

MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. He is also the editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (both Mark Fisher Ltd).