3 To See biography

Originally directed for the stage by Alan Cumming, Jacob Storms’ Tennessee Rising: The Dawn Of Tennessee Williams (Assembly Rooms, 3–27 August, 5.05pm) is quite the mouthful. This piece focuses on those years when young Tom Williams went from being a wannabe scribe to one of the world’s most famous playwrights. Andrew O’Hagan is having a busy year, and The Ballad Of Truman Capote (theSpace @ Niddry Street, 4–26 August, 6.05pm) is his debut play, all about a man described by the Glaswegian as ‘the inventor of self-invention’. In recent times we’ve heard all about Hamnet Shakespeare, but what of his twin sister? Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 2–27 August, 12.10pm) brings her story to the fore.