Back to School
✮✮✮ 1/2 Cora Bissett's Glasgow Girls Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Edinburgh directed by Cora Bissett In 2005, a group of seven schoolgirls from Glasgow launched a campaign against the treatment of asylum seekers in their city after the detention of one of their school friends. They specifically targeted issues of child detention, dawn raids and sudden deportation, which affected many of their neighbours and peers. Cora Bissett, director of Glasgow Girls came up with the idea t
An Epic Trilogy of a Clash of Minds
✮✮✮✮ Rona Munro's The James Plays Edinburgh International Festival | Edinburgh directed by Laurie Sansom With Scotland’s independence on the ballot cards, the National Theatres of Scotland and England have chosen a poignant moment to animate a more violently troubled interlude in the histories of the two countries. Rona Munro’s uneven but utterly thrilling trilogy of new full-length history plays races through violent, profound, and pivotal episodes from the lives of three su
