Johnny McKnight

The Hot 100 2011: 100-50

The definitive list of Scottish creative talent

16 Dec 2011

100: Gordon Ferris. Kilmarnock crime author makes good. The already packed Scottish crime writing field has finally found a bit of elbow room for another burgeoning talent. Joining the likes of Rankin, Brookmyre, McDermid and co is this Ayrshire-born…

Jackie and the Beanstalk

Johnny McKnight's panto manages to entertain while challenging traditional gender roles

7 Dec 2011

According to panto dame Dott Von Trott, things have got so bad in the austerity-stricken pantosphere that ‘parents in Bridge of Allan have started firing their nannies and learning their own kids’ names’. Serious times indeed, and there’s something…

Double Nugget - Mary Massacre and Seven Year Itch

A dark comedy that's too light and a play for for a rewrite

27 Feb 2012

Lovers of Johnny McKnight’s brand of pathos-laden, observational comedy will find some moments to enjoy in Mary Massacre (such as a sullen, gossipy sales assistant in Argos or the dubious joys of online dating). However, the twin track monologues of…

An Appointment with the Wicker Man

Robin Hardy’s 1973 classic to become the play-within-the-play for new NTS production

1 Feb 2012

‘There are many films that people would love to see adapted cleanly onto the stage,’ says Greg Hemphill, and if current trends are anything to go by, he looks to be right, ‘but when we discussed it with Vicky [Featherstone, National Theatre of Scotland…

Smalltown collects work by Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight

Random Accomplice’s trio of Ayrshire-set plays

7 Mar 2011

Random Accomplice’s trio of Ayrshire-set plays by three of Scotland’s leading talents seems intended as an affectionate parody of the portmanteau horror films popularised by Amicus in the 1960s. The individual segments do, however, offer a snapshot of…

Random Accomplice's Smalltown offers three plays by leading Scottish playwrights

New works by Douglas Maxwell, DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight

26 Jan 2011

Typical. You wait ages for a great new play to arrive and then three come along at once. As luck would have it the trio of plays that make up Random Accomplice’s latest production, Smalltown, have been crafted by three of Scotland’s leading young…

Valhalla!

14 Jul 2010

Paul Rudnick’s Valhalla! interweaves the coming-of-age stories of notoriously eccentric 19th century monarch Ludwig II of Bavaria (Johnny McKnight) and a teenage tearaway named James Avery (Mark Prendergast) growing up in 1930s redneck Texas. While the…

Tron Theatre summer production sets sail for Valhalla!

23 Jun 2010

Theatre-goers beware: reality will leave the building for artistic director Andy Arnold’s latest summer production. Following on from last year’s darkly comic Cooking With Elvis, Valhalla! looks similarly offbeat, replete as it is with magic swans…

Little Johnny’s Big Gay Wedding

28 May 2010

Fans of Johnny McKnight’s five-year search for ‘the one’ are cordially invited to a theatre show with a difference this fortnight. Little Johnny’s Big Gay Wedding casts you the audience as the guests at the nuptials, where you’ll be rubbing shoulders…

Pantomimes

27 Nov 2008

Earlier this year, I took a trip to Scarborough to check out the headquarters of the Qdos Entertainment empire. This is the organisation responsible for 21 pantomimes in the UK alone, not to mention a handful of theatres, a couple of talent agencies…

Little Johnny’s Big Gay Musical

18 Oct 2007

Random Accomplice’s Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight have resurrected the loveable, if diminutive anti-hero of Little Johnny’s Big Gay Adventure, the deserved hit of Glasgay! in 2005. This time out they bring us an all-singing, all-dancing escapade as…

Little Johnny’s Big Gay Adventure

Arches, Glasgow, Thu 10-Sat 12 May

23 Apr 2007

ONE-MAN THEATRE SHOW It’s been 18 months since Johnny McKnight last performed his squirmingly honest solo show at the Arches and things have changed. ‘Thirty’s looming, Madonna’s adopted a black baby and designed a range for H&M, and I’ve been to…