David Greig
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
Mark Fisher
19, Feb, 2024 @6:00 AM
‘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?
Libby Brooks
15, Aug, 2023 @1:26 PM
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
Clare Brennan
21, Aug, 2022 @10:30 AM
Under Another Sky review – romcom seeks out the Romans in Britain
David Greig’s two-hander adapted from Charlotte Higgins’s nonfiction book about our ancient past is a sweet meander
Mark Fisher
12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM
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
Charlotte Higgins
09, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart review – devilishly fun festive folklore
David Grieg’s rowdy, informal yarn makes a pleasingly oddball antidote to the classic Christmas show
Catherine Love
09, Dec, 2021 @11:00 AM
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil review – love, loss and lower-league footie
In Gary McNair’s jovial audio play, a woman rediscovers a connection with her home town and her dead father by following a Scottish football team for a season
Mark Fisher
20, Jul, 2021 @11:01 PM
Adventures with the Painted People review – Greig's romance has irresistible spark
A Roman soldier falls under the spell of a Pictish woman in this poetic radio play that holds up a mirror to modern Britain
Arifa Akbar
07, Jun, 2020 @8:00 PM
Bringing the stage to the airwaves: David Greig's romance for our times
The playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
Mark Fisher
02, Jun, 2020 @6:12 AM
Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum goes into 'hibernation' as Covid fallout hits stages
£700,000 loss forces landmark theatre to cancel entire 2020 programme in hope of emerging renewed next spring – and staving off financial fate of other venues
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
20, May, 2020 @3:52 PM
Dr Korczak's Example review – Holocaust drama cracks under the weight of history
David Greig’s play about a Warsaw orphanage shows glimpses of hope in the ghetto – but, inevitably, it falls short of capturing the horror of the Holocaust
Catherine Love
03, Feb, 2020 @8:00 AM
Dr Korczak’s Example review – lessons from the Warsaw ghetto
David Greig’s 2001 drama about the doctor who founded an orphanage in the Warsaw continues to educate
Clare Brennan
02, Feb, 2020 @5:30 AM
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