Saskia McCracken studies Modernist Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is passionate about theatre, and her interests range from Aristophanes, Shakespeare and Marsha Norman to fringe projects and new productions by emerging writers. She has published several short stories and is currently writing her dissertation on Virginia Woolf's feminist animal politics.
A fusion of music, stand-up and spoken word, Greater Belfast is a vivid portrait of a city built on a kind of muck with a particular name: sleech. The...
Expensive Shit is a powerful feminist masterpiece. Based on real events, the play follows Tolu (Cameron), a toilet attendant, and cuts back and forth ...
An award winning, Hitchcock-inspired production with four actors, playing 139 roles in 100minutes? Yes please. It’s the end of the show’s nine year ru...
This bleak, Beckettian comedy is as funny as it is disturbing, not least because of a scene involving a lot of dead fish.
Frances Poet seamlessly ada...
David Wood’s Olivier award-winning adaptation of Goodnight Mr Tom has been revived to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Michelle Magorian’s classic ch...
Scottish Ballet’s latest production of Cinderella is the perfect balance of physical comedy and festive sparkle. I realise that sentence is nauseating...
Burbach’s new production of Madama Butterfly draws on traditional Japanese ghost stories to ‘radically reframe’ the opera. The result is haunting on s...
Why is it that whenever a classic is ‘updated’ it gets set during one of the world wars? How many Shakespearean Nazis have traipsed the boards in heav...
What does someone ask for when they commission art? Something beautiful, a status symbol, an artist’s ‘vision’? And how does the money and expectation...
