Category Archives: Theatre

In autumn 2022, the duo that brought the James Plays to the stage, writer Rona Munro and director Laurie Sansom, returns to Scottish stages with a new collaboration,   James IV – Queen of the Fight. ‘Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish ​ women who were expected to take their place at aContinue reading “Cast Announced for Latest Part of Rona Munro’s James Plays Cycle”

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre has been accredited as a Living Wage employer that will see everyone working at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.90 per hour. This Living Wage rate, announced on Monday 15th November 2021 as part of Living Wage, is higher than the government minimum forContinue reading “Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Accredited as a Living Wage Employer”

Scenes for Survival, the innovative digital series created by National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, will draw to a close over the next six months. Each film will be taken down two years after it was premiered, with audiences being offered the last chance to view. The projectserved as an inventive online season of short works, following theContinue reading “National Theatre of Scotland Celebrates Scenes for Survival as Series Comes to End ”

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has for the fifth year launched its flagship community engagement programme, Fringe Days Out that has seen nearly 10,000 people participate since starting as a pilot programme in 2017 to mark the Festival’s 70th anniversary. Fringe Days Out involves partnerships with 33 schools, community groups, charities and organisations around Edinburgh, and provides FringeContinue reading “Fringe Society Launches Fringe Days Out for Its Fifth Year”

Ellen Wilkinson was a pioneer left wing working class politician who worked tirelessly on grassroots campaigns like the Jarrow March and went on to be the only female cabinet minister in Attlee’s Labour Government. Writer Caroline Bird deserves high praise not just for her firecracker script but for her research in unearthing a story about yetContinue reading “Red Ellen Lyceum Theatre”

The Bookies is a dark thriller comedy that’s based on an idea that emerged over 15 years ago from two working class Scottish writers and long term friends, Mikey Burnett and Joe McCann. Written in East Coast dialect, the play is set in an Edinburgh bookies’ and deals with themes of  misogyny, racism, greed and addiction.Continue reading “Cast Announced for Dundee Rep’s New Black Comedy The Bookies”

The Fruitmarket Warehouse, part of the Fruitmarket Gallery, is a new space for art in Edinburgh that lends itself to performance. In May it will play host to multi-media performer Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom  who challenges  ideas that that live performance involves seeing the performer’s body. There have been two iterations of the concept with the firstContinue reading “Sound–Based Performance from Appau Jnr Boayke-Yiadom at Fruitmarket ”

Theatre Company Wonder Fools, whose aim  is to present lost, unknown and forgotten stories in theatrical form, present a  version of award winning performance artist Bryony Kimmings’  Revolting played by a group of young theatre-makers. For one night only at  the Traverse, Scotland’s new writing theatre, young people from fifteen different locations across Scotland willContinue reading “Young Theatre-Makers to Present Bryony Kimmings’ Revolting at Traverse Theatre”

Sunday 24 April sees Assembly Roxy host the return of Scotland’s iconic Circus Cabaret Night created by Edinburgh-based company Delighters, with Cirqulation: Future –  a celebration of life, growth, survival, change and perseverance. The line-up, curated by founder Jusztina Hermann, seeks to represent a new wave of circus acts emerging alongside international touring talents that rarely take toContinue reading “Scotland’s Circus Cabaret Cirqulation is Back”

Here we have the latest offering from the “Goes Wrong” crew, Mischief Theatre – or perhaps that should be franchise rather than crew these days, given how they have built on the success of the original Play that Goes Wrong. With several follow ups, and two series on BBC television, they are a force toContinue reading “Magic Goes Wrong Festival Theatre”