John Bett

NTS tackles phone-hacking with Enquirer

New site-specific work relies on verbatim transcripts from journalists

16 Apr 2012

Into the pristine, empty top floor of the Hub, a media office block between the Clyde, Film City and the BBC, has come the clutter of a newspaper office. The mismatched chairs, the cardboard coffee trays, the piles of paper are all present and correct.

Para Handy

Nosalgic escapism to the fore in stage adaptation of Neil Munro's popular sea-faring stories

21 Oct 2011

It’s over a century since Neil Munro first regaled readers of the Glasgow Evening News with the adventures of Para Handy and his crew aboard the Vital Spark. John Bett’s stage adaptation (with original songs and music by composer Robert Pettigrew…

New stage adaptation of Para Handy stories set for Scottish tour

Writer and director John Bett on timeless appeal of Neil Munro tale

16 Sep 2011

My Skye granny was an inveterate haunter of provincial auction houses and would often return home with baskets of books which nobody wanted and which a wily auctioneer had partnered with household items of more immediate interest to buyers. These books…

The Government Inspector

4 Mar 2010

The prescience of Gogol’s comedy of political corruption, avarice and ineptness goes without saying. What’s remarkable about Communicado’s revival of The Government Inspector is that it manages to be riotously funny and entertaining while never losing…

Panel Event discusses The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil

19 Jan 2010

We’re really looking forward to this one, folks, we won’t lie to you. Tying in with the National Library of Scotland’s utterly great exhibition Curtain Up: 40 Years of Scottish Theatre (exhibits from which are modelled by the equally great John Byrne…

The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer

13 Nov 2008

Following its acclaimed premier at Glasgow’s Oran Mor earlier in the year, Iain Heggie’s satirical insight into the moral dubiety of the merchant class in late-18th century Glasgow takes to the road by popular demand. The play has garnered particular…

Mrs Warren's Profession

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 10 Mar

27 Feb 2007

REVIVAL Easy truisms about the corruption that comes with money come as readily to the lips of those in authority today as they did in 1893, when Shaw’s classic first appeared, only to banned for for 30 years. That money should be roundly condemned…