Friday, November 14, 2025
What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars – and a King Lear played by ‘the woman who changed my life’
‘Holy sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
At a festival so often dominated by bold young talent, it’s veteran performers stealing the spotlight this year. We meet them – from household names to octogenarian newcomers
Miriam Marg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
His charged dark comedies tackling the extremities of religious conflict have occasionally led to walk-outs. Will his new play – about men, alcoholism and masturbation – be just as provo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
A drunken and divided dinner party in 2014 is the setting for Peter Arnott’s Chekhovian new comedy. But almost a decade on from the independence vote, why did it take so long?
On a gloriou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
The controversial festival, hailed as a ‘once in a lifetime’ cultural event, opens with an immersive history of the universe, About Us, at Paisley Abbey
Unboxed – the controversial an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Dumfries course teaches 11- to 18-year-olds how to create a persona, apply makeup and the history of drag
“You can use drag to explore anything you want to,” says Natalie Doidge, the org…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
He quit booze and Scotland – and became a chat show sensation in the US. As he returns to standup on his home turf, we rescue him from selfie-takers on the streets of Glasgow
On the morni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Ahead of a stage trilogy about technology’s advance, Cora Bissett talks GM babies, robot nurses and the timeless power of theatre
A couple’s intimate discussions about having a baby take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMMonday, March 11, 2019
As Bill Forsyth’s much-loved film about an imperilled seaside village is transformed – beach and all – for the stage, its creators say it had to be seen north of the border first
How d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMSaturday, July 28, 2018
A number of shows at the fringe this year benefit from the readymade intimacy, shared language – and tension – you only get when real-life family members share the stage“I hate feeling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
The new artistic director of Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre explains how The Suppliant Women, Aeschylus’s 2,500-year-old play about a refugee crisis, offers a ‘profound statement on the pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMMonday, August 15, 2016
Adura Onashile’s new play, Expensive Shit, takes place in two toilets – one in Glasgow and the other at Fela’s legendary Lagos club. She talks about her bathroom sink dramaIn a nightcl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Inspired by the ballads and folklore of her native north-east, Elspeth Turner’s SpectreTown tells its story entirely in 19th-century Doric dialect – striking a blow for cultural identity…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
He’s the sweary Glaswegian comic with a selfie obsession. But Brian Limond is also taking on taboos around identity, outrage and mental health… Related: Confessions of an internet troll …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMFriday, February 11, 2011
As a tragic heroine of our time, the late Big Brother star is the perfect subject for a play at Shakespeare's Globe theatreYou could never accuse Shakespeare of under-writing his female role…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM 
