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Friday, November 14, 2025

'I'm not just putting on nice plays': Hollywood star Alan Cumming's plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands by Libby Brooks

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 shit!" Thi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

'It's a brigade of old gits!' Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh by Libby Brooks

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 Margolye…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

'I went straight to whisky at 14': David Ireland on tackling booze on stage by Libby Brooks

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 provocati…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

'It's the first major work about the referendum': how Scotland's big moment finally made good drama by Libby Brooks

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 glorious …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Unboxed festival launches with vow to get Britain reconnected by Libby Brooks

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 and now …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 16, 2021

'Gender is a performance': Scotland's first 'drag school' sells out by Libby Brooks

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 organis…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

'I should have died in 1992': Craig Ferguson's comedy comeback by Libby Brooks

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 morning…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Boxing clever: how mind-warping sci-fi came to a Glasgow office block by Libby Brooks

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 pla…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]
Monday, March 11, 2019

Mac's back: Scotland's treasured Local Hero is reborn as a musical by Libby Brooks

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 do you …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 28, 2018

The families in plays together ... why the theatre at Edinburgh is all relative by Libby Brooks

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 emoti…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

'This play is primal': David Greig on an ancient drama more relevant than ever by Libby Brooks

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 purpose …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 15, 2016

Fela Kuti, a Glasgow nightclub and the drama of the ladies' loos by Libby Brooks

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 nightclub toi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Dialect action: the Edinburgh show giving Scotland a voice by Libby Brooks

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 in …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Limmy: 'In my mind, I can joke about anything' by Libby Brooks

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 Th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 11, 2011

The taming of Jade Goody | Libby Brooks by Libby Brooks

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[SHARE]

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