Platform 18

Theatremaker Amanda Monfrooe on the award-winning Poke and Wuthering Heights double bill

The Platform 18 double bill partners Poke with the all-male Wuthering Heights, by Peter McMaster

With its prize of a fully-funded production at the Arches and the Traverse, the Arches Platform 18 Award is one of Scottish theatre’s most coveted accolades. Former recipients include Nic Green and Cora Bissett, and 2012 winners Amanda Monfrooe and…

Theatre writer and performer Clare Duffy's new show about money

Platform 18: Money - The Game Show

What drew you to the subject of money for your new show? I was amazed by the enormity of the financial crisis in 2008. I hadn’t really realised before that money might actually stop working on a global scale. Of course I was glad that it didn’t! But it…

Internal and Adrian Howells among highlights of Arches Behaviour festival

In the era of the ASBO, more restrictions are placed on our behaviour than existed a generation ago. Our media focuses so much attention on the possibility of dangers presented by other people’s behaviour that we end up fearing others while policing our…