Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Can the Scots really be as small-minded, mistrustful and chippy as Spoiling suggests?

Plus: the Scots dialect shouldn’t put you off The Flouers o’Edinburgh at the Finborough Theatre that uses suspense and surprise reversals to great effect

Gabriel Quigley (Fiona) in Spoiling by John McCann. [30th July 2014. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Traverse Theatre Company present Spoiling by John McCann. Directed by Orla O'Loughlin] 
issue 13 September 2014
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  • Spoiling

    Theatre Royal, Stratford East, until 13 September

  • The Flouers o’Edinburgh

    Finborough Theatre, until 27 September

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