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One Day has been a bestselling novel, a forgettable film, a beloved TV series – now can it be a musical?

David Nicholls’s romantic saga is heading to stage, in the very city where its characters first felt the sparks fly. But how to cram 20 years of romance into two tune-filled hours? By focusing on the little moments, say its creators

The Guardian - UK

Alan Cumming named as artistic director of Scottish ‘theatre in the hills’

Hollywood actor will ‘invite the world’s best’ to Pitlochry Festival theatre after making surprise approach for role

The Guardian - UK

Two Sisters review – a wry look at the perils of nostalgia

David Greig’s entertaining and immaculately performed new play is about adults seduced by memories of their own emotionally heightened teenage pasts

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Longboats is the new short novel from one of Scotland's most prolific dramatists

DAVID Greig – playwright, theatre director and artistic director of Edinburgh’s great repertory theatre the Royal Lyceum – is one of the…

The National (Scotland)

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian take on the Scottish referendum

An impressive ensemble makes the most of Peter Arnott’s new country house play, set during Scotland’s 2014 independence vote

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the first major work about the referendum’: how Scotland’s big moment finally made good drama

A drunken and divided dinner party in 2014 is the setting for Peter Arnott’s Chekhovian new comedy. But almost a decade on from the independence vote, why did it take so long?

The Guardian - UK

‘A missing link in ancient Scottish history’: on the trail of the Picts

Pictish stones are the relics of a long-lost civilisation, and visiting them in Scotland makes for a fascinating trip starting in Edinburgh then heading north

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Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That’s why we need them

Ancient classics can reinforce patriarchal lies about women, but they also take us back to the origins of pernicious narratives, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: My Neighbour Totoro; Local Hero – review

A beloved Studio Ghibli anime is brought to magical life in Phelim McDermott’s new RSC production, while the 1983 film Local Hero finds fresh resonance

The Guardian - UK

Perthshire theatres express pride about new plays that picked up CATS awards

I am Tiger and Adventures with the Painted People, both performed first in Perthshire, were winners at recent theatre critics' awards

Daily Record

Under Another Sky review – an amiable road-trip two-hander around Roman Britain

This playful adaptation of Charlotte Higgins’s book is charming, if a little lacking in narrative drive

The Guardian - UK

My life was turned into a romcom! How our arts writer became the lead character in a new play

Charlotte Higgins was thrilled that her history book about Roman Britain was being adapted for the stage – until she realised it was being reimagined – and she and her partner were the romantic leads

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Lyceum theatre breaks new ground with full festival line-up of its own

AUGUST, when Edinburgh is taken over by all things festival, is traditionally a quiet one for the city’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.

The National (Scotland)

Past, present, living, dead all collide in haunting sci-fi thriller ‘Solaris’

"Solaris," the play, is based on a 1961 novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Staged by Scott Weinstein in the 56-seat Schwartz Stage at Edgewater’s Raven Theatre, the production marks the play’s North American premiere.

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Touching the Void review – mountain climbing adaptation fails to reach book’s thrilling heights

Sumner theatre, MelbourneDespite an admirably committed cast, David Greig’s telling of Joe Simpson’s extraordinary tale of survival feels strangely inert

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