An ambitious Spring Season at the reinvigorated Perth Theatre includes Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, Gaslight. The play, originally set in 1871, is a Victorian thriller in three acts which portrays the psychological manipulation of a woman by her controlling husband, leading her to doubt her sanity. Gaslight enjoyed a long run following its 1938 première Read More
(UK, 2019) 23 March 2019, DCA Dundee based director Joel Hewett’s latest production comes to the DCA for a single screening, alongside Daniel Taylor’s One Night Stand. Recorded with partly improvised dialogue, the film trails a handful of characters as their relationships tumble, taking a gentle look at a turbulent but common situation. Hewett himself Read More
Part of the double-bill screening from Fingerclick Productions this month, director Daniel Taylor’s film squeezes its way onto the screen, and hovers uncomfortably. The film tracks a group of friends on a night out, focussing on an encounter between socially awkward James (James Quinn) and regret-laden Mhairi (Mhairi Rutherford). Being shot around Taylor’s hometown of Read More
Briar Mouth is the first published collection of poems by Helen Nicholson. She has had poems published in Gutter, and Magma magazines and shortlisted in the Bridport Creative Writing Competition, 2015. She lived near Fort William as a child, spending time in Skye, and now lives in Fife. These locations are clearly reflected in her Read More
I meet Joel Hewett and Daniel Taylor, two filmmakers from Dundee, at their new office in the city centre. By new, they tell me, they mean days old. Most of the equipment is still in boxes. Parts of a shelving unit are stacked in the corner, waiting to be reconstructed. A computer is up and Read More
The job of writing a jukebox musical is never easy. It is hard enough to write songs to fit into an original and engaging story but harder still to write an original story to fit around popular songs that already exist. The early 2000s pop-punk band Son of Dork only released one album, and never Read More
Menna Elfyn was born near Swansea in 1951. She was brought up with the Welsh language at home and in Chapel and raised during a time when teaching Welsh at school was not promoted. Elfyn is a renowned professor of Poetry and Creative Writing, at the University of Wales Trinity St. David’s in Carmarthen, where Read More