Donald Stewart, Author at SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland

Donald Stewart

A group of nine performers in matching light blue jumpsuits and vibrant, patterned superhero-style capes posing triumphantly in a row on a large, fallen tree trunk. The scene is set outdoors in a rural landscape under a soft sky.

Interview: ‘Afronauts’ on Staging the Ultimate Underdog Story of the Space Age

In 1964, Zambia was getting ready for independence. Science teacher Edward Mukuku Nkoloso, who ...

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A photograph of artist James Gladwell, a smiling man with a beard and glasses wearing a blue and white checkered shirt, sitting at a work table in a studio with a piece of fabric featuring an intricate line-drawn embroidery pattern in front of him.

Interview: Project Ability on Bringing James Gladwell’s Dream-Inspired Art to Glasgow

Project Ability – Scotland’s foremost visual arts company for people with learning disabilities and ...

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A close-up photograph of actor Barrie Hunter seated at a table during rehearsals. He has a grey beard, wears black-framed glasses and a brown corduroy shirt, and is smiling gently towards the camera. To his left, the side profile of Dawn Steele in a blue t-shirt is softly out of focus.

Interview: Barrie Hunter on Celebrating Gary McNair’s Words and Joy of ‘Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil’

Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil is a novel dressed up as a love ...

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Cora Bissett, seated holding a megaphone, and Hannah Lavery, leaning against a red brick wall featuring a fly poster for Mayday. A pasting bucket and two face-down placards rest on the ground.

Interview: Hannah Lavery and Cora Bissett on ‘Mayday’, Fighting Back, and the Power of Art

A National Theatre of Scotland production, Mayday is for one night only, a curated ...

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Lærke Schreve Engelbrecht crouching on an illuminated glass stage, with cast members kneeling behind her.

What I’m Here For: A bleak backdrop to a hospital under severe pressure (Theatre Review) 4 stars

Scotland’s Vanishing Point, in a co-production with Theatre Katapult of Denmark have created a ...

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Interview : Clare Duffy of Civic Digits on new play Many Good Men and Online Radicalisation of Masculinity

Many Good Men employs the form of interactive Forum Theatre. Originated in Brazil, it ...

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The Saltmarket Six: Retelling of a little known Glasgow story (theatre review) 3 stars

Ayrshire’s Theatre Alliance are making a solid career out of bringing little known Scottish ...

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The Saltmarket Six: Historic Young Glasgow Gangs In Focus with Story Sadly Relevant To Any UK City Today (Theatre –interview)

Kilmarnock based Theatre Alliance are becoming widely known for original Scottish stories told based ...

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