There are thousands of shows in Edinburgh this month. Please explain why we should come and see yours. So Young is on at the legendary Traverse Theatre, the spiritual and literal home of playwriting in Scotland.
It’s our Cavern Club, our CBGBs. If you like theatre at all you should catch everything you can in that building. Plus, So Young is good.
You’ll feel something. I promise. Who or what was the biggest inspiration for your show? I wanted to write about that feeling of changing “age”, inside, depending on who we’re with or what we’re doing.
We can suddenly feel young: reckless, unbreakable, flirty...
unworldly, ignorant, childish. Then a moment later we can feel ancient: forgotten, decrepit and redundant..
. wise and battle scarred. What’s the best review you’ve ever had, and the worst? A guy in a pub once said that a play of mine was, for him, “up there with Jaws”.
I’ve had a zero star review in a national newspaper. I didn’t read it, but when you’ve been in the business for as long as I have you can almost sense that it would be quite negative. Who or what are you most excited about seeing this year? The Fifth Step.
VL. The Outrun. The Bookies.
June. Love Beyond. The History of Paper.
We Used To Be Girl Scouts. 27. Chatterbox.
Same Team. Oran. Tell us something about you that would surprise people.
I’ve never had a genuinely brilliant night in a restaurant. What are the best and worst things that have happened to you at the festival? It was t.