Author

Mark Lawson

Other articles by this author

1. Everybody out
2. Just soap
3. Out of period
4. Staying power
5. Shooting gallery
6. Stage whiskers
7. Race, religion and revelation
8. Out of season
9. Russian accents
10. To heightened effect
11. Man of the moment
12. A mother’s courage
13. Ultimate questions
14. Lord of misrule
15. It’s diabolical
16. Love hurts
17. Fault lines
18. Playthings
19. A great talent
20. Voices in the dark
21. Flawed heroines
22. Edge of despair
23. Nuclear option
24. Ritual power
25. Who rules Britain?
26. Leading ladies
27. Ill-starred crew
28. Creativity’s roads that lead from Rome
29. Mind to deceive
30. A house divided
31. Taking liberties
32. The Elephant Man
33. Lost and found
34. Classic resonance
35. In the shadows
36. The Importance of Being Earnest
37. Dynamic duo
38. Not as we know them
39. After a fashion
40. Setting the house on fire
41. Out on their own Shows for single performers have been among this year’s biggest successes at Edinburgh
42. All the tyrant’s women
43. This Dane rocks
44. Cabin fever
45. Stage of confinement
46. It takes two
47. Ham and exotica
48. Paying tribute to Brian Friel
49. Music and madness
50. Ideas under the spotlight
51. Audience, we surprised you
52. On and off message
53. West Sussex Story
54. Political perennial
55. Home comforts
56. Enduring love
57. The bard at 400: death, judgement, forgiveness and reconciliation
58. Certainties and surprises
59. Eros and the upper crust
60. Fallout from Camelot
61. No instant recall
62. Female focus
63. Like a puppet on a string
64. Showing the best
65. Playwrights’ play-off
66. A verdict on history
67. Tragedies loud and small
68. French fries
69. Voices of generations
70. Reversing the lies
71. Young, gifted, black – and back
72. A ripe pair
73. Understanding why
74. Space odyssey
75. Life, death and being Irish
76. The shadow of the Marchmains
77. Lines in the sand
78. Playing the fool
79. God’s own players
80. High price to pay
81. Gangsters and molls
82. Slick, quick and clichéd
83. Age before beauty
84. Masterful masterclasses
85. Seeing is believing
86. Constant recall
87. The Tablet Interview: Lord Williams of Oystermouth: When worlds collide
88. Edinburgh: the stage is set
89. Passion in a real garden
90. Ayes for eyes
91. Immaculate misconceptions
92. Don’t clap too loudly
93. When Christ met Caesar
94. Money, money, money
95. Race wars
96. Hanging out the family washing
97. Cutting-edge Beckett
98. Timeless conceit
99. Boxing clever
100. Electric Mozart