Rona Munro

Rona Munro's rom-com-thriller Pandas features candid humour and fine performances but lacks focus

25 Apr 2011

Pandas set-up as a series of two-handers between seemingly disparate characters, all with a connection to tax-dodging businessman Andy (Keith Fleming), who imports rugs from China. When he’s shot in the backside and suffers a heart attack the main…

Rona Munro’s play Pandas set for Traverse Spring Summer season

Romantic comedy explores links with China through three couples

18 Mar 2011

Just a few weeks after Rona Munro’s Pandas was revealed as part of the Traverse’s Spring Summer season, Edinburgh Zoo announced that it would soon be home to the first pair of giant pandas to live in the UK for 17 years. The timing may have been…

Jim Loach's Oranges and Sunshine a worthy follower in dad Ken's footsteps

Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham solid in social drama

18 Mar 2011

(15) 104min Jim Loach, son of Ken, was always going to be on a hiding to nothing with his debut feature. Bringing a worthier-than-thou tale to the screen, the comparisons to his father’s immense body of work are inevitable, even more so given how…

The House of Bernarda Alba preview

Rona Munro on her latest theatrical endeavour

3 Sep 2009

It’s been a big year for Rona Munro. Just weeks after the premiere of The Last Witch at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish playwright is gearing up for the first performance of her adaptation of The House of Bernarda Alba, by revered…

Theatre hitlist

3 Sep 2009

Arches Live! The Arches continues to push performance boundaries with a mouth-watering season of shows, many of them by non-traditional theatre-makers. Arches, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 26 Sep. The Cherry Orchard Dundee Rep ensemble turns its…

The Last Witch

Sensual story of power and the state

24 Aug 2009

Beneath its bare story there’s something far more complex at work in Rona Munro’s new piece for the Traverse and the EIF. This re-imagining of the true, though factually sketchy, demise of Janet Horne, a Dornoch woman executed for witchcraft in 1727 and…

The Last Witch - Rona Munro

12 Aug 2009

Outside of panto season, it’s difficult to find a dramatist these days who’s keen to write about witches. While the idea of witchcraft might bring a certain primal frisson to some, and a sociological fascination to others, the contemporary theatre has…

The Last Witch

10 Aug 2009

Beg, borrow or steal a ticket to the preview shows of leading Scottish playwright Rona Munro’s new work, based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland. Tune in to The List’s festivals magazine…

Best of the Rest - Edinburgh International Festival

Highlights of the Edinburgh International Festival

13 Jul 2009

The Return of Ulysses, Bryn Terfel, The Last Witch, Bernarda Fink, Peter and Wendy, Actus Tragicus and Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert

Figures of fun

What the Edinburgh Festival means in numbers

13 Jul 2009

1,535,519 tickets, 34,265 performances and nine rubber ducks. All that and more make up a busy August.

Paines Plough at Oran Mor

1 Nov 2007

LUNCHTIME THEATRE Oran Mor, Glasgow, until Sat 17 Nov One of the features of Oran Mor’s Play, Pie and Pint of recent times has been its capacity to forge links with other companies. Over the next few weeks, there’ll be a chance to see three pieces…