If an exciting new generation of young women theatre directors is beginning to emerge in Scotland, then Shilpa T-Hyland seems likely to play a leading role in that movement. She is the first-ever winner of the Cross Trust Young Director Award, set up to allow a young Scotland-based director to create a full production for Perth Theatre, with strong support from the thatre’s artistic director Lu Kemp and the whole organisation; and her new production of Zinnie Harris’s version of Miss Julie – Strindberg’s searing 1889 drama about a midsummer’s night encounter between the young mistress of a big house and her father’s ambitious manservant, Jean – is set to open at Perth next weekend.
