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ABOUT MARK FISHER'S SCOTTISH THEATRE LINKS

Scottish Theatre Links is created by Mark Fisher, theatre critic, editor, feature writer and freelance journalist. Mark Fisher has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s, contributing theatre reviews, interviews, arts features and travel articles to newspapers and magazines in Scotland and all over the world. As well as information about Scotland's theatre companies, Mark Fisher's Scottish Theatre Links will lead you to articles about practitioners such as Scottish playwrights David Greig, David Harrower, Iain Heggie and Liz Lochhead; Scottish actors such as Alan Cumming, Brian Cox, Iain Glen, Gerry Mulgrew, David Tennant and Richard Wilson; and organisations such as the National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, the Tramway, Glasgow, the Tron Theatre, Glasgow and NVA. Contact Mark Fisher at

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6 May The Guardian

Nova Scotia

The problem with Nova Scotia is the same problem faced by its central character, Phil McCann.

 

2 May The Guardian

Educating Agnes

A standard translation of Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes is a clunky thing. The French playwright's Alexandrine couplets sound awkward in English, the rhythms mechanical, the rhymes forced.

 

1 May The Guardian

Yarn

Edinburgh site-specific company Grid Iron specialises in after-hours trips into half-familiar spaces - airports, department stores, play parks - always immersing the audience in a world somewhere between reality and make-believe.

 

29 April The Guardian

The Wasp Factory

The wanton destruction of rabbits; the murder of three children; maggots beneath the metal plate of a patient's head.

 

28 April The Guardian

Tilda, the Slab Boys and Me

John Byrne doesn't read the papers and hasn't had a television for six years, but he does listen to what he quaintly calls the wireless.

 

27 April Scotland on Sunday

Dominic Hill interview

"If you're doing anything that's dangerous, don't take these," says Dominic Hill, handing out a pitchfork, rolling pin and axe to Scottish Opera's male chorus.

 

23 April The Guardian

Trumpets and Raspberries

Dario Fo believes productions of his plays should move with the times. It is mo important that an audience today should understand the political point of Trumpets and Raspberries than that they should know the story behind it.

 

21 April The Guardian

The Emperor's New Kilt

"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.

 

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Andy Cannon in The Emperor's

 

20 April Scotland on Sunday

Michelle Gomez interview

She has taken her time about it, but Michelle Gomez is finally learning how to be ambitious.

 

20 April Scotland on Sunday

Chris Hannan interview

Chris Hannan is standing at the window of his Granton flat looking out to the Firth of Forth. He is recalling the evening he received the e-mail from Courtney Hodell saying she loved his debut novel, Missy.

 

18 April Hi-Arts

The Emperor's New Kilt

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.

 

13 April Scotland on Sunday

The Sun also rises – Aberdeen arts renaissance

Sitting behind the expansive glass windows in the first-floor restaurant at His Majesty's Theatre, you sense the first stirrings of a cultural renaissance in Aberdeen.

 

6 April Scotland on Sunday

Beyond borders – Jonathan Mills interview

The Edinburgh International Festival was conceived as an antidote to war. From today's perspective, its aims sound terribly high-minded.

 

2 April The Guardian

Edinburgh International Festival blog

The Edinburgh International Festival programme has just been launched and what distinguishes it is the coherence of the theme that binds it all together.

 

18 March The Guardian

And now, babies, a Jungian drama

Gathering in small numbers, the audience enters a mysterious, sculptural box. Inside, they go on a multi-sensory trip, through fabric, wool and towelling.

 

26 February Hi Arts

Heelie-Go-Leerie

In shows such as Molly Whuppie, Wee Witches and Green Whale, Licketyspit has quickly earned a reputation as one of Scotland's most polished children's theatre companies.

 

26 February Variety

Static

It speaks volumes about Suspect Culture and Graeae Theater that their first collaboration should be a show about pop music.

 

26 February Hi Arts

Static

You don't expect a play about pop music to be performed in sign language.

 

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