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The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre

In Cora Bissett’s highly enjoyable and accessible production, a deaf man reintroduces a busker to the joy of music

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16

KT Tunstall behind new Edinburgh Fringe show about young deaf singer

What does it mean to sing if you cannot hear? And can you sing with your body, if not your voice?

The National (Scotland) · Aug 9

The Burns Project review – Scotland’s national poet in all his glory and contradictions

Drawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett’s imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love life

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025

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Protests held on stage at Edinburgh festival over Scottish arts funding cuts

Anger grows over proposed cuts of up to £10m for Creative Scotland affecting freelance artists and performers

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2024

Encore! Surefire shows returning for the Edinburgh festival in 2023

In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewed

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2023

Community arts performance project launches in Paisley with an eye-catching Yellow Brick Road

Volunteers are needed to get involved in spectacular street performance next year

Daily Record · Jun 23, 2022

Orphans review – buoyant musical about death, grief and boozing

Four adult siblings react to their mother’s death in wildly different ways, in this raucous musical adaptation of Peter Mullan’s 1998 film black comedy

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2022

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Diary of a director: ‘I am buzzing off the passion and sweat of this gang’

Cora Bissett is staging a musical adaptation of Peter Mullan’s film Orphans for the National Theatre of Scotland. Here, she shares her notes from rehearsals

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022

Glasgow Film Festival announces 2022 programme featuring 10 World premieres

World premieres at GFF include Christina Ricci's Monstrous and Skint, a series of powerful monologues about living in poverty from a creative team led by Peter Mullan, Jenni Fagan, Cora Bissett and Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee.

Glasgow Live · Jan 27, 2022

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