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David Greig

February 2024

  • Two Sisters.

    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

August 2023

  • No campaign activists in 2014.

    ‘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?

August 2022

  • Keith Macpherson and Amelia Donkor in Under Another Sky.

    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
  • Under Another Sky at Pitlochry Festival theatre.

    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
  • Charlotte Higgins at the Pitlochry Festival theatre.

    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

December 2021

  • ‘Unravels beautifully’ … Joanne Thomson in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester.

    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

July 2021

  • Alive and kicking … Cowdenbeath FC, AKA the ‘Blue Brazil’ v Heart of Midlothian FC in the 2020 Scottish League Cup.

    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

June 2020

  • Adventures with the Painted People

    Lockdown culture
    Adventures with the Painted People review – Greig's romance has irresistible spark

  • ‘We will find a different way to make theatre, but it will not be the same” … Elizabeth Newman and David Greig.

    Lockdown culture
    Bringing the stage to the airwaves: David Greig's romance for our times

May 2020

  • The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.

    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

February 2020

  • Robert Pickavance as Dr Janusz Korczak in Dr Korczak’s Example

    Dr Korczak's Example review – Holocaust drama cracks under the weight of history

  • Rob Pickavance as Dr Korczak and Gemma Barnett as Stephanie.

    Dr Korczak’s Example review – lessons from the Warsaw ghetto

November 2019

  • Angus Yellowlees (Simon) and Josh Williams (Joe) in Touching The Void by Joe Simpson @ Duke of Yorks. Directed by Tom Morris. (Opening 14-11-19) ©Tristram Kenton 11/19 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Touching the Void proves anything is possible in the theatre

    David Greig’s survival-story adaptation has clawed its way to the West End – and it is a triumph of resolve and innovation

September 2019

  • Polly Frame as Kris and Keegan Joyce as Ray in Solaris.

    Solaris review – love and loneliness collide in best take yet on sci-fi classic

    David Greig follows Tarkovsky and Soderbergh with this bold, rewarding take on Stanisław Lem’s novel about a sentient planet speaking to its visitors

July 2019

  • Faye Marsay and Billy Howle in Europe at the Donmar Warehouse.

    The week in theatre: Europe; The End of History; The Color Purple – review

  • A long, dark night of the soul ... Suni La as Prudencia Hart.

    The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart review – brilliant border ballads drama

June 2019

  • 11. Theo-Barklem-Biggs-(Horse)-in-Europe-at-the-Donmar-Warehouse.-Director-Michael-Longhurst,-Designer-Chloe-Lamford.-Photo-Marc-Brenner

    Europe review – refugees shelter in train station as a continent frays

  • Leeanna Walsman (right) as Kelvin in rehearsal for the Malthouse Theatre’s adaptation of Solaris.

    ‘What is Solaris?’: sci-fi classic gets gender-flipped for mainstage adaptation

March 2019

  • Damian Humbley, centre, as Mac in Local Hero.

    Local Hero review – oil-movie gem strikes a salty musical note

  • Big questions … from left, Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster and Peter Capaldi in Bill Forsyth’s film Local Hero.

    Mac's back: Scotland's treasured Local Hero is reborn as a musical

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