Adapted from John Schlesinger’s Oscar winning film, Waldo Salt’s screenplay, and the novel by James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy was the main theatre show at the Assembly Rooms Edinburgh during the 2006 Festival. It starred Olivier Award winning Con ‘O Neil as Ratso Rizzo and Charles Aitken as Joe Buck. The show was directed by John Clancy
“A powerful night of theatre”
The List
To read The List review of the show click here
“Aitken is as good as I recall Jon Voight being in John Schlesinger’s film in 1969...O’Neill comes impressively close to matching Dustin Hoffman, who won an Oscar in the role”
The Times
To read a review of the show in the Telegraph click here
“Con O'Neill is superbly seedy and asthmatic as the pickpocket Ratso.' Daily Mail
To read a review of the show in The Guardian click here
To read a review of the show in the Daily Telegraph click here
To read Tim’s Sunday Times article on the show click here
To read Tim’s Guardian article on nudity in the show click here
To read an interview with Tim in the Daily Telegraph click here
To read an interview with Tim in Metro click here
To read a Scotsman interview with Sylvia Miles about the show click here
To read Tim’s article in Scotland on Sunday click here
To read another Guardian article on the show click here
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