Theatre review: Safe Place

It’s a rare thing, to see a fierce media row sparked by one controversial individual taken straight out of the press, and made into a 50-minute play. That’s what happens, though, in Clara Glynn’s Safe Place, the last of five Play, Pie And Pint shows to transfer to the Traverse this spring. The central character, Martine – brilliantly played by Jennifer Black – is a middle-aged Glasgow academic shamelessly based on Germaine Greer, who has recently been extensively “no-platformed” by universities and broadcasters, after saying that while the rights of trans-sexual people should be fully respected, it’s nonetheless wrong for those born male to claim that they share the experience of “real women”.