Theatre journalist. Scotland correspondent for @TheStage. Words @StageDirectorsUK @FT, and elsewhere. The Crush Bar newsletter: thecrushbar.substack.com
Joined May 2012
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18 Nov 2024
I think that is pretty much it for me on here, like a lot of other folk.
I'll be posting about my work @TheStage and elsewhere - including my newsletter - on the new place from now on. Come find me on there.
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18 Nov 2024
Episode four of my podcast, A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays, is out now.
It focuses on the seminal @traversetheatre season of 1985 - and on Jo Clifford's Losing Venice in particular.
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
15 Nov 2024
I caught up with @FergusMorgan to chat @JSTheatre, @theAtticist, and designing Tender at @bushtheatre which opens next week!
15 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat...
- a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre
- three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt
Link to read/subscribe in bio.
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15 Nov 2024
Previewing from next week, with many performances already sold out. @DavidMJTDoyle talks to @FergusMorgan at ‘The Crush Bar’ about his work as lighting designer on ‘Tender’ by @eleanortindall_ @bushtheatre thecrushbar.substack.com
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
15 Nov 2024
I love reading The Crush Bar every week but really treasuring this one which asks such good questions of the extraordinary @DavidMJTDoyle who does 19000 things but always starts from the play.
15 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat...
- a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre
- three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt
Link to read/subscribe in bio.
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
15 Nov 2024
"Jermyn Street Theatre was set up as a place where artists could afford to make work and audiences could afford to see it, and that is still what we are trying to do."
Read @DavidMJTDoyle's interview in @FergusMorgan's The Crush Bar chatting all things Jermyn Street Theatre.💥
15 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat...
- a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre
- three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt
Link to read/subscribe in bio.
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15 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat...
- a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre
- three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt
Link to read/subscribe in bio.
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15 Nov 2024
Three episodes of my podcast on the history of Scottish drama are already out... three more to come, plus that live discussion feat. @MarkFFisher, @islacowan, @gaznicholls, and Nicola McCartney.
Made with @traversetheatre, @Bespoken_UK, @ssp_playwrights, and @NTSonline.
15 Nov 2024
Are you caught up with the first three episodes of A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays?
🎙️Ep 1. A Satire of the Three Estates
🎙️Ep 2. Men Should Weep
🎙️Ep 3. The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil
Listen here: traverse.co.uk/whats-on/even…
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
13 Nov 2024
We're back in less than a week - so sign up now to make sure our first post lands straight in your inbox 🐾
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12 Nov 2024
"Stuff is coming back. Exeunt. Miss Saigon. Fascism. Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire."
This week's issue of Shouts and Murmurs - my weekly bit for paid supporters of The Crush Bar - just got sent out. Read and subscribe via the link in my bio.
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12 Nov 2024
John McGrath’s legendary The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil is the focus of this week’s episode of @FergusMorgan’s A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays
Featuring clips from our 2018 production directed by Joe Douglas & chat from OG cast member Bill Paterson👇
ALT A man dressed in a cowboy hat and fringed jacket plays the violin under stage lights. His expression is joyful, and two other performers in western attire stand in the background.
ALT A black and white photo of a man sitting down, with his left arm propped up as he looks off to his right.
ALT Two performers on stage shake hands in an exaggerated manner. The person on the left wears a striped suit, bowler hat, and fake moustache, while the other holds a flask and wears a tweed jacket and flat cap.
ALT A black and white photo of a group of actors stand in the middle of the street in front of the Round Church in Bowmore. At the front of the group, a child is holding a flag that reads ‘7:84’.
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‘We started the wrong act and somehow had to get back to Act II’
Celebrated Shakespearean actor Oliver Ford Davies tells The Stage about biding his time when it came to playing lead roles and why he felt compelled to play Malvolio in Twelfth Night 👇 thestage.co.uk/features/oliv…
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Review Round-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre – Does Fitzgerald’s fabulous fable find favour with the critics? Will audiences be bowled over by Benjamin Button? @TCCOBBmusical 👇
thestage.co.uk/review-round-…
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
11 Nov 2024
Episode 3 - The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil is now live 🎙️ 🏴
In this episode we go back to the 1970s with John McGrath's iconic play, featuring discussion with Bill Paterson.
podfollow.com/scottishdrama/…
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11 Nov 2024
The third episode of my podcast, A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays, is out now!
It is about 7:84, The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil, and everything else that happened in the 1970s - and it has a great chat with Bill Paterson.
Listen: podfollow.com/scottishdrama/
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11 Nov 2024
The clips in this episode were kindly provided by @NTSonline, from its 2019 revival of The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil, which was made in association with @DundeeRep and @LiveTheatre.
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
9 Nov 2024
So delighted to have our show highlighted by @FergusMorgan in The Crush Bar. Only 3 days until we open at @arcolatheatre 🚀🚀🚀
🎟️:arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/d…
8 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds.
Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama.
Link to read/subscribe in my bio.
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
8 Nov 2024
I wouldn't have seen @ollyhawesss thrilling show at the Fringe if it hadn't been for the @FergusMorgan top 10 rec, so extremely glad it's come full circle with this interview. Buy a ticket, the show's really quite brilliant - riversidestudios.co.uk/see-a…
8 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds.
Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama.
Link to read/subscribe in my bio.
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Fergus Morgan retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Thanks @fergusmorgan for the shout out! Go and read about some excellent new theatre right here 👇🏼
8 Nov 2024
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds.
Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama.
Link to read/subscribe in my bio.
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