The Scotsman

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

- Susan Mansfield has been writing about the arts for The Scotsman since 2001 and is a Fringe First judge. She comes back every year, hoping for shows that bring her to the limits of her adjectives.

down and talk, it reminds me of the Truth and Reconcilia­tion Commission in South Africa, and the Good Friday agreement.”

It’s not the first time Knowles has taken a leading role in a trilogy of plays at the Internatio­nal Festival. In 1993, she played Chris Guthrie in Alistair Corning’s adaptation of Grassic Gibbon’s A Scot’s Quair, the linchpin of that year’s drama programme. But she’s no stranger to the Fringe either. In 2011, she took a leading role in Paddy Cunneen’s double bill Fleeto and Wee Andy, for which she won a Best Actress award when it which transferre­d to the Adelaide Fringe.

And she still remembers the debut production of David Harrower’s Knives in Hens, which opened with a Highlands and Islands tour, then played at the Traverse during the Festival. “It was a fantastic job, a

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