Interviews
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Interviews
Manipulate 2025: Puppets and Embodiment
As Manipulate Festival returns with another celebration of animated film, puppetry and visual theatre, we talk to Artistic Director Dawn Taylor about the programme and the radical potential of intimacy in theatre Read more »| 07 Feb 2025 -
Interviews
West Bank Diaries: Bethlehem Calling at Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections presents Bethlehem Calling, a unique production bringing together theatremakers, audiovisual artist and musicians for a work based on the diaries of teenage girls growing up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the second Intifada Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
Interviews
Katy Nixon and Brian Logan on A Play, A Pie and A Pint's Jellyfish
We speak to Katy Nixon (winner of the David MacLennan Award), and A Play, A Pie, and A Pint Artistic Director Brian Logan about their forthcoming play, Jellyfish Read more »| 08 Nov 2024 -
Books
Building bridges with Scottish International Storytelling Festival
The connective power of storytelling is at the heart of the 35th Scottish International Storytelling Festival, with its theme of Bridges Between. We chat with the head programmer and performers about what it means to tear down walls and build bridges Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
Festivals
Break the Binary: Wet Mess on drag spectacle TESTO
We chat with drag artist Wet Mess about their blazing experimental show TESTO and the blurred lines between performance and authenticity Read more »| 05 Aug 2024 -
Interviews
Future Artists on The Art of Producing
Producer Mark Ashmore of Future Artists talks about working with the Tartan Tabletop team to bring Dungeons & Dragon Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest – The Return to Gilded Balloon after selling out in 2023 and success at Adelaide Fringe Read more »| 31 Jul 2024
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Interviews
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Eating Theatre
Cooking is a demonstration of care, at once a balm and a bridge – we meet four theatre-makers bringing food-centred shows to the stage this August Read more »| 30 Jul 2024 -
Festivals
Hyperpop, theatre and the trans voice
Ois O'Donoghue's HYPER isn't art about transness; it's trans about art – we talk to Ois ahead of the show's Fringe run at Summerhall Read more »| 29 Jul 2024 -
Festivals
Song for the Ages: ARI, The Spirit of Korea
We take a trip to South Korea's Gangwon region to learn about the Jeongseon Arirang which comes to the Edinburgh Fringe in ARI: The Spirit of Korea Read more »| 28 Jul 2024 -
Interviews
Unearthing Sunset Song: In Conversation with Morna Young and Finn den Hertog
An ambitious co-production between Dundee Rep and the Royal Lyceum uses Doric and English to delve deep into the human experience Read more »| 10 Apr 2024 -
Interviews
Flavia D'Avila on La Niña Barro
Our Theatre editor speaks to Fronteiras Theatre Lab's Flavia D'Avila about La Niña Barro, a daring and intimate piece of physical theatre Read more »| 05 Mar 2024 -
Interviews
The Pie's The Thing: A Play, A Pie & A Pint returns
With the days steadily getting longer, A Play, A Pie & A Pint launches its ambitious spring season this month Read more »| 09 Feb 2024 -
Interviews
Scottish Opera explore Marx's years in London
We speak to director Stephen Barlow about the great thinker’s ‘fascinating’ years spent in London – and why they were great source material for a new comic opera produced by Scottish Opera this month Read more »| 01 Feb 2024 -
Interviews
Tortoise in a Nutshell on play, participation and new show Ginger
Tortoise in a Nutshell's interactive children's show Ginger is a celebration of community – we catch up with co-director Alex Bird Read more »| 04 Dec 2023 -
Interviews
Apphia Campbell on new play Through the Mud
Apphia Campbell speaks about her upcoming show, Through the Mud, an intergenerational story about the struggle for civil rights Read more »| 31 Oct 2023