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UNBELIEVABLE: Rona munro | History Defined

Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review: it's a neglected classic for a reason

3/5 There are some fine performances here, but it’s an effort to tough your way through the more saccharine moments

Evening Standard

Emerging playwright schemes should include over 40s, say UK theatre figures

Ageism standing in way of older writers breaking into the industry, playwrights claim

The Guardian - UK

James V: Katherine review – queer love in the time of the Scottish kings

The fifth of Rona Munro’s James plays fails to develop an interesting premise about a hidden romance

The Guardian - UK

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James V: Katherine review – romance and religion in the court of a volatile manchild

Catriona Faint’s witty performance as a pragmatist caught up in fanatical times is the heart of the latest historical drama from Rona Munro’s James Plays series

The Guardian - UK

Our pick of the 50 best plays of the 21st century

The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen

Evening Standard

Podcast: Theatre Review (David Tennant in Good & Mary at Hampstead Theatre)

David Tennant in ‘Good’ at the Harold Pinter Theatre and why it’s an important watch.

Evening Standard

Mary review – Douglas Henshall’s courtier defends a Queen in quick-fire debate

Rona Munro’s engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots

The Guardian - UK

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Mary at Hampstead Theatre review: Rona Munro’s queen’s tale utterly fails to spark

This play about Mary Stuart draws juicy contemporary parallels but this talky and monotonous production is less than the sum of its parts

Evening Standard

James IV: Queen of the Fight review – Rona Munro’s knotty latest Stewart dynasty play

A racist verse by the court poet William Dunbar is the problematic inspiration for the fourth of Munro’s James plays exploring Scotland past and present

The Guardian - UK

James IV: Queen of the Night and Don Quixote: Man of Clackmannanshire reviewed

SOME eight years have passed since Rona Munro’s “James Plays” (a trilogy set during the reigns of the kings James I, II and III of Scotland)…

The National (Scotland)

New play provides fresh perspective on the history of the Scottish aristocracy

WHEN Scottish playwright Rona Munro began writing James IV: Queen Of The Fight – the fourth on her series of “James Plays” about the kings…

The National (Scotland)

Queen of the Fight: the royally revelatory drama about James IV’s court

After her gripping trilogy The James Plays, Rona Munro continues her ambitious series on Scottish history with a saga about power and race in the 16th century

The Guardian - UK

Former National Theatre boss turns playwright at Hampstead

Fomer National Theatre boss Richard Eyre has written his first original play 25 years after leaving the Southbank institution.

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