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Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian take on the Scottish referendum

An impressive ensemble makes the most of Peter Arnott’s new country house play, set during Scotland’s 2014 independence vote

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian attempt to capture a political turning point

At a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023

‘It’s the first major work about the referendum’: how Scotland’s big moment finally made good drama

A drunken and divided dinner party in 2014 is the setting for Peter Arnott’s Chekhovian new comedy. But almost a decade on from the independence vote, why did it take so long?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2023