Allan Scott, Author at Catholic Herald

Allan Scott

My clash with Roald Dahl over ‘The Witches’

January 02, 2020

So long as the Big Things are right, we can ignore the niggles, the little but regular annoyances which keep me from dropping off at night. I am a cradle Catholic brought up in the schools of harder knocks (or Knox?) and there are still a handful of things to get off my chest. I

Susan Boyle, lunchtime Mass and the Dramatists Club: a week in theatreland

February 21, 2019

Ten years ago I devised a stage musical based on the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert. We developed the script in a workshop in Melbourne where everyone was invited to suggest ideas, songs and scenes. A most relaxing kind of writing ensued where the author simply jotted down the best notions. My favourite was:

St Bernadette, a medallion and the miraculous saving of a soul

January 24, 2019

This is a true story, the details set out as accurately as knowledge and memory permit Peter was born in Thurso, the most northerly town on mainland Britain, where the wind and the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth carved the rugged geography of the coast. He was subsequently brought up in a large happy

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