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ARTICLES: NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND © MARK FISHER 2008
11 November 08 The Guardian The Dogstone/Nasty Brutish and Short If new plays are a measure of the times, the National Theatre of Scotland's series of Traverse Debuts tells us these are depressing days.
28 October 08 The Guardian No one could accuse Sam Holcroft of lacking ambition. Her full-length debut is an attempt to marry Darwin's theory of evolution to the male propensity for war . . .
19 September 08 The Guardian Professor Michael Reiss should have bided his time. Instead of causing all that hullabaloo over creationism in science lessons, the Royal Society's now ex-director of education should simply have prescribed One Giant Leap for every school in the land.
24 August 08 Scotland on Sunday Few shows have opened at the Edinburgh International Festival with a greater weight of expectation.
21 April The Guardian "Sometimes the scariest thing can be your own imagination," says the independently minded Rhona as she explains to a golden eagle (by the name of Glen) that the giant crow he is frightened of is actually his own shadow.
18 April Hi-Arts The first one to get naked is not the emperor at all. It's Ramsay, the loveable sheep, whose fleece is sheered off to supply the wool for the laird's new birthday suit.
28 February The Guardian The National Theatre of Scotland gets its two-year check-up Vicky Featherstone says she imagined the inaugural production of the National Theatre of Scotland would transform lives forever. It didn't work out exactly that way, but how inspirational to have an artistic director who believed it might.
21 February The Guardian Six Characters in Search of an Author It strikes us as being the most modern - indeed, postmodern - of plays, yet Six Characters in Search of an Author is also very much of its time.
20 February The Guardian Putting experimental theatre to the test I laughed out loud when I read Armando Iannucci's analysis of experimental theatre in the Observer at the weekend.
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