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Plays from RSC, National and Almeida theatres in running for Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2025

The Fair Maid of the West review – songs, silliness and a musical ham

Isobel McArthur gives a giddy fresh spin to Thomas Heywood’s 16th-century romp which sends a Cornish landlady, in her repurposed bar, to sea

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

‘It’s got to be evocative’ … why has a famous Glasgow bar been built at the RSC?

She cast an armchair as Mr Bennet in a Pride and Prejudice reboot. Now Isobel McArthur’s been let loose on lusty romp The Fair Maid of the West. So is she worried about outraging mothbally academics?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2023

Kidnapped review – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife

Older, American and previously divorced, Frances Stevenson frames the National Theatre of Scotland’s pantomime-inspired recasting of the novelist’s adventure classic

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

Kidnapped review – razzle-dazzling Robert Louis Stevenson

There’s an optimal mix of irreverence and affection in this bracing adaptation of the swashbuckling classic

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Joyous and emotional: inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards returned last night after a two-year pandemic-enforced break, in a night that reflected the strength of London’s theatre recovery

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2022

Acclaimed Scots adaptation of Pride and Prejudice to make welcome return

IN the summer of 2018 at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the young, Scottish actor and playwright Isobel McArthur and her ensemble took to the stage…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 13, 2022