7 Days in Entebbe review – Rosamund Pike hostage drama never gets off ground
Sluggish account of the 1976 plane hijacking fails to capitalise on strong cast and script, and José Padilha at the helm
February 2011
Gagarin Way – review
There is a special pleasure in hearing actor Jordan Young deliver Burke's Fife patter in Gagarin Way with such easy assurance to an audience familiar with the cadences the playwright captures so well, writes Mark Fisher
October 2010
The best performance I've ever seen
The best performance I've ever seen: Gregory Burke, playwright
Black Watch author Gregory Burke recalls the mythic power of Afore Night Come, David Rudkin's play about fruit pickers
March 2010
Battery Farm
Oran Mor, Glasgow A silly sci-fi satire of a Soylent future where pensioners are stored for food is darkly funny, writes Mark Fisher
May 2009
Hoors
Traverse Theatre, London The follow-up to Black Watch is a laboured account of drunken Scots on the eve of a funeral, says Euan Ferguson
April 2009
Gregory Burke on his Black Watch follow-up
Gregory Burke's play Black Watch won awards all over the world. Now he is following it up with a black comedy about the recession. Mark Fisher meets him
January 2009
Theatre preview: Gagarin Way, Bath
Ustinov, Wed 28 Jan to 13 Feb
July 2008
Pick of the week: Theatre
Black Watch | The Chalk Garden | The Harder They Come | The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Pick of the week: Theatre
South: Faeries | Edinburgh Or Bust | Born In The Gardens | Richard III | Black Watch
Pick of the week: Theatre
London: Black Watch | The Chalk Garden | Fat Pig | The Harder They Come | ... some trace of her
June 2008
In bed with the boys from Fife
Black Watch
Black Watch
Black Watch: The story of the play
'It's in the blood'
Theatre preview
April 2008
The real tartan army
'The thing about Fife is it's tribal... there's a fierce loyalty'
March 2008
Preview
Contains Violence | Black Watch | Road | Our Friends In The North | Zorro | The Black And White Ball | Static | Oresteia
February 2008
Great Scots: Two years of the National Theatre of Scotland
In the two years since its official launch, the National Theatre of Scotland has created 59 productions performed in 101 locations
