When Serge Denoncourt, the French Canadian director, was casting the 15 women required for Michel Tremblay’s now world-famous play, he said that he met enough first-rate actors in Scotland to have cast the show three times over.
And verily this is the season of the women. Sharman MacDonald’s She Town in Dundee has been keeping another 40 women busy for a month. Perth Theatre has just opened its female version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple .
Cora Bissett has nearly a dozen women rehearsing her Glasgow Girls musical in Glasgow. And that’s without mentioning Maureen Beattie and Gabriel Quigley, currently appearing in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Enquirer in London, Phyllis Logan, still keeping house in Downton Abbey, or Rachael Stirling, shortly to