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Liz Lochhead

December 2022

  • From left … Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, Charlie Stemp in Crazy for You and Marie-Astrid Mence in Oklahoma!

    2022 in Culture
    The best theatre of 2022

    In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

August 2022

  • Adura Onashile as Medea with the chorus.

    Medea review – Adura Onashile exudes awesome authority in bloody tragedy

    Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging

July 2022

  • Three of Edinburgh’s finest … Phil Wang, Sophie Duker and Ian McKellen.

    Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

    Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

January 2018

  • Robert Burns statue in Leith, Edinburgh.

    Books blog
    Robert Burns: was the beloved poet a 'Weinsteinian sex pest'?

    Ahead of this year’s Burns Night, the 18th-century bard has come under harsh scrutiny from Liz Lochhead over his treatment of women

May 2016

  • Vigorously theatrical … James Anthony Pearson, Jimmy Chisholm, Siobhan Redmond and Steven McNicoll in Thon Man Molière at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.

    Thon Man Molière review – Lochhead's lurid tragicomedy brings lots of laughs

    Scandalous affairs and royal tiffs abound in this excellently acted, Scots-tinted take on the brilliant but self-destructive French playwright

January 2016

  • Liz Lochhead

    A life in ...
    Liz Lochhead: ‘You’re stuck writing something until you go, “To hell with it, I’ll tell the truth”’

    The books interview: the new Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry winner on learning how to be a Scottish writer and why becoming the national poet saved her life

September 2014

  • JK Rowling

    Rowling: I'll be 'just fine', but if it all goes badly wrong, other people will pay

    The author explains her donation to Better Together as other cultural figures declare their allegiance to 'Yes'

August 2014

  • Incubator Theatre

    Edinburgh festival diary – Israeli group hunt for venue after run cancelled

    Incubator Theatre vow to 'sing for peace on the streets' following protests over funding from Israeli government

June 2014

  • Perfect Days, play by Liz Lochhead

    Perfect Days review – Liz Lochhead's play has lost its humour

    This account of Scotland's 90s aspirational generation emerges today as a sober family drama, writes Mark Fisher

May 2014

  • Robert Burns

    Robert Burns's suspected bipolar disorder used to fight illness's stigma

    Glasgow symposium uses the poet's tempestuous life in presentations about the condition that some feel may have fuelled his work

March 2014

  • Composite image showing (from left) Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke and Paula Meehan

    The female poets who have earned their laurels

    A celebration of the UK and Ireland's female poets laureatesas part of International Women's Day

January 2014

  • radar juliet stevenson

    On my radar
    On my radar: Juliet Stevenson's cultural highlights

    Juliet Stevenson, star of films, stage and TV series such as The Politician's Wife, talks to Leah Harper about poetry, Iranian film and the magic of Mark Twain

June 2013

  • Iain Banks will be the subject of a special event at the Edinburgh international books festival

    Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup

    Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian

March 2013

  • muriel spark

    Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize

    From experimental theatre to reading projects for young offenders, the double award covers more than just books

October 2012

  • Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Rift deepens between Scottish artists and Creative Scotland, as despairing open letter is published

    A hundred names from the Scottish arts establishment – including Ian Rankin, Douglas Gordon and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – have expressed their dismay at Creative Scotland's policies with a heartfelt open letter

August 2012

  • Liz Lochhead

    Books blog
    My belated thank you to Liz Lochhead

    One day in the early 80s, the poet Liz Lochhead got a blank reception from a bunch of young students. David Barnett was one of them – and says she inspired him to be a writer

April 2012

  • Jubilee streetparty

    Sixty years in poems

    Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse

October 2011

  • The Saturday poem
    A Night In

  • Ted Hughes

    The Northerner
    Poets and writers gather in the Pennines for Ted Hughes weekend

August 2011

  • Edinburgh authors
    Liz Lochhead: 'Leaves have come to stand for poetry in Scotland' - video

    The new Makar shows Sarah Crown around the Scottish Poetry Library and explains why 'poets need no laurels'

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