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 Imaginate is Scotland’ national organisation that promotes, develops and celebrates theatre and dance for children and young people and produces the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (EICF). It has been involved in a 3-year project in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts that will focus on children’s rights, placing them at the heart of the creative process and decisionContinue reading “Imaginate’s New Project Creative Encounters to Be Led by Children”

The Traverse theatre has announced the first shows of their 2023 programme, including the return of Manipulate with two UK premieres Anthropoda and Love Beyond (Act of Remembrance); National Theatre of Scotland’s Dear Billy by Traverse Associate Artist Gary McNair; Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo from Actors Touring Company; Love the Sinner from Vanishing Point and performance poet Imogen Stirling and surrogate productions’Continue reading “Traverse Theatre Announces First Shows of 2023  “

After the uncertain period when we were all under the heel of the pandemic, National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) is now able to set itself on the road to recovery with a year-long programme. This full and broad package of theatrical plans is rightly rooted in the popular culture and geography of Scotland, with classicContinue reading “National Theatre of Scotland Announces 2023 Programme”

As part of the programme of events from the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, Teatro Metastasio Stabile Pubblico della Toscana presented a play that marks the 30th anniversary of the mafia orchestrated massacres in 1992 of two prominent Sicilian anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Written by journalist, playwright, scriptwriter and former Italian MP,Continue reading “The Last Summer – Falcone and Borsellino 30 Years Later (L’ultima estate – Falcone e Borsellino 30 anni dopo) Assembly Roxy”

Exactly one month before Christmas day, the Lyceum opens their theatrical festive fare with a reprise of their successful 2019 production, An Edinburgh Christmas Carol, from writer and director Tony Cownie. Set in mid 19th century Edinburgh, on the basis that Dickens was alleged to have seen the name Scroggie on a gravestone in EdinburghContinue reading “An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Royal Lyceum”