Scottish Theatre Archives

Elizabeth Newman

2nd April 2020

INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH NEWMAN. Elizabeth arrived at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2018 after eight years at Bolton’s Octagon, five as associate di...

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in Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre, Scottish Theatre

Claire Cunningham

12th December 2019

INTERVIEW: CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM. Having a physical impairment since birth, Claire Cunningham spent her formative years wishing she could divert attention...

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in Choreography, Dance, Disability Arts, Scottish Theatre

Pamela Carter and Stewart Laing

21st November 2019

INTERVIEW: PAMELA CARTER AND STEWART LAING. Playwright Pamela Carter and director-designer Stewart Laing have worked together on a string of ground-br...

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in Design, Directors, Experimental Theatre, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre

A Play, A Pie and A Pint

18th April 2019

INTERVIEW: A PLAY A PIE AND A PINT. Since its launch by the late David MacLennan in 2004, Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre A Play, a Pie and a Pint ...

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in New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre

Scottish Panto

20th December 2018

DISCUSSION: FRANCES MAYLI MCCANN, JOHNNY MCKNIGHT, JULIE WILSON NIMMO. Actors McCann, McKnight and Wilson Nimmo discuss the vibrancy of the pantomime ...

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in Actors and Performers, Pantomime, Scottish Theatre

Jackie Wylie

27th April 2018

INTERVIEW: JACKIE WYLIE. Nine months into her new job at the helm of National Theatre of Scotland, Jackie Wylie talks to Mark Fisher about her plans f...

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in Directors, Live Art, Performance, Scottish Theatre

David Greig

21st September 2017

INTERVIEW: DAVID GREIG. From taking The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart on a tour of pubs to putting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway,...

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in Directors, Dramaturgy, Funding, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre