Category Archives: Theatre

This December, Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, is supporting Scottish dance artists and collaborators to bring life back to their Grassmarket premises with a show filmed in their Edinburgh studiosentitled Now Here This that will be streamed to audiences across the world. In a night of performance, movement and celebration that will featureContinue reading “Now Here This – a Night of Creativity from Dance Base Scotland”

Eva O’Connor walks barefoot on to the Peacock stage of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre carrying two big jute supermarket bags. Looking directly outwards, she begins her brutally honest exposé of the effects on her character E of the break-up of an imbalanced affair.   E already has an unusual way of dealing with anxiety. It is self-harmContinue reading “Mustard – A Searing One Woman Show from Ireland at Traverse 3”

As we all plod our way through a bleak 2020, this strange year’s final month will be lit up by some festive fare from the Traverse Theatre’s all year digital platform known as Traverse 3. The range of shows, from new productions to returning shows, should bring some theatrical anticipation this advent. Award winning GlasgowContinue reading “Treats from the Traverse across this December”

Edinburgh International Magic Festival, aka Magicfest, that was founded in 2010 by Svetlana McMahon and Kevin Quantum, is a not for profit organisaton that promotes magic as an art form.   Like other arts organisations, Magicfest can’t have live performances so, like many others, is going digital over 5 days in December 2020 with a line-upContinue reading “Edinburgh International Magic Festival 2020 Goes Digital This December”

The 2020 Fringe may have been cancelled but hope runs high for 2021 with the launch of a campaign called Fringemas Fundraiser that aims to raise £25,000 by the 17th December 2020 for the charity. The money will allow the organisation to help bring back the festival in 2021; support artists and other participants toContinue reading “Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Launches Fringemas Fundraiser”

As part of the Traverse digital programme, a Scotsman Fringe First Award winner in 2019 comes back to Edinburgh in Traverse 3 for the first two weeks in December. Mustard, written and performed by Eva O’Connor, is a one-woman show about heartbreak, madness and condiments as coping mechanisms. When E meets the man of herContinue reading “Early Festive Treat at Traverse from Irish New Play Company Fishamble”

Scotland’s visual theatre, puppetry and animated film festival, Manipulate, that’s been brightening Edinburgh’s dark early months since 2008, announce it’s 2021 return in a new form.  In a brief YouTube video, Puppet Animation’s CEO, Dawn Taylor launched the programme that will run from 21st January till 21st February 2021 with the three aims of provocation,Continue reading “New Version of Annual Manipulate Festival Announced for 2021”

This year’s annual panto in Musselburgh’s Brunton theatre takes a new form. Instead of a live stage production, this season’s version of the Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel from the redoubtable John Binnie, will be screened in the Brunton’s cinema space instead. We will see Rapunzel who was locked in a tower being rescued by herContinue reading “Rapunzel the Pantomime to be Screened at The Brunton”

Fibres, the jointly produced play from Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre and Edinburgh’s Stellar Quines, has been remade as a filmed version that will premiere online on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm. Written by award-winning playwright Frances Poet, Fibres explores the deadly legacy of asbestos in the Clyde shipyards, giving voice to the stories of women andContinue reading “Premiere of New Filmed Version of Stage Play Fibres Announced”

The Traverse Theatre online festival, that takes place in the digital space known as Traverse 3, for the next month presents a rehearsed reading entitled The Bus Stop.  Written by actor Gavin Yule, the play has been developed as part of a new mentoring programme from Lung Ha Theatre, Scotland’s leading theatre company for peopleContinue reading “Lung Ha Theatre Company Brings Play on Disability Experience to Traverse 3”