Emma Hay

THEATRE Gerda Stevenson has cracked the balance between a complex need to preserve the past and the want to get 'oan wae' it.

PHYSICAL THEATRE This delicate Chaplinesque clown act has made art with silence.

Why not to use the Fringe for career-advancement opportunities?

THEATRE Ontroerend Goed's latest show is bound to divide but is a necessary and timely piece of theatre, a must see.

SOLO SHOW Even the Pope is getting down with the idea of gay marriage; what's the deal with belief systems and ideologies thesedays?

Emma finally gets round to planning her Fringe; uninspired, she resorts to spontaneity.

CONTEMPORARY DRAMA Perceptions of identity and image in an ever-evolving marketplace.

[Rating: 4/5] Liz Lochhead’s translation of Moliere’s L’ecole des Femmes (School for Wives) discards our reservations and inhibitions by making us laugh at ourselves. And it works.

In Educating Agnes, as with Tartuffe, the language is transposed to Scots and rhyming couplets, a combination which is sure to produce a rapier wit-filled farce.

Emma Hay talks to writer Lindsay Miller and director Amy Gilmartin about Alone, Face to Face a piece of new writing to be showcased at the Drama and Theatre Arts Graduate Show at the end of the month.