Liz Lochhead

The Stand announces final batch of Edinburgh Fringe shows

After a tempestuous couple of years resulting in one missed Fringe in 2020 and one barely recognisable one in 2021, The Stand release their final batch of shows for the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th May 2022

Here's a good comedy to listen to as you peel those hard neeps for your Burns Night supper. It's about young English lawyer Nicola (Sophie Thompson) whose work takes her to a Burns Night dinner in London, a corporate one. The water of life (aka whisky) flows and she's a bit put out by the general goings on. But then, as the evening continues, she starts to comprehend why the poetry of Robert Burns spoke to many a woman in its time, and still reaches hearts today. Nimbly dramatised by Liz Lochhead from a story by Helen Simpson.

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 24th January 2012