Category Archives: Theatre

When the shops put Back to School signs in their windows, at a date that can seem way too early, it has always been a reminder that the long summer days of the holidays really did have an end in sight. After an imposed period away from school for reasons that few of us couldContinue reading “Back to School Videos from Puppet Animation Scotland”

Edinburgh Youth Theatre (EYT), under the artistic directorship of Shauna Macdonald, has built a thriving community of young people gaining confidence and learning life skills through drama classes and training in all aspects of performance from acting to design to film production. Like so many parts of the arts, the EYT weekly classes, held atContinue reading “Edinburgh Youth Theatre gets Support from Glasgow Film Star James McAvoy”

Like every arts venue in the land, the Honest Toun’s wee gem of a venue, The Brunton, has had to cancel its annual pantomime.  This year, it was to have been a production of panto favourite, Aladdin. The temporary cancellation will be a great disappointment to the folks in East Lothian to miss the YuletideContinue reading “Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre Joins Ranks of Pantomime Postponement”

One of the favourite parts of the normal Traverse Festival programme is the feature of their Breakfast Plays. Traditionally taking place at 9am, with breakfast roll included, it is a part of the Traverse’s talent development programme that showcases new short plays by early career writers who are often alumni of the theatre’s Young WritersContinue reading “Traverse Theatre Iconic Breakfast Plays to be Spread Across the Globe”

The annual pantomime at Edinburgh’s King’s theatre is legendary. It is not only Scotland’s biggest and best-selling panto, with over 90,000 theatregoers attending each festive season, it is a Yuletide institution in the Capital. But not this year. The restrictions due to the Covid crisis mean that this festive production of Sleeping Beauty will beContinue reading “The King’s Sleeping Beauty to Stay Dormant till 2021”

A dog may be man’s best friend but his favourite space is supposed to be a shed. This may or may not have influenced producer Francesca Moody and writer and performer Gary McNair when they decided on the concept of Shedinburgh, but it’s a thought! This August may not have the usual cornucopia of actsContinue reading “It’s the Shedinburgh Fringe Festival!”

An immersive film experience entitled Declan is a new take on Kieran Hurley’s original work Mouthpiecethat was a hit in the 2019 Festival Fringe.  Using cinematography in Edinburgh locations, original animation and audio, it has as its central character 17 year old Declan, who shows viewers his Edinburgh as he confronts the city’s exclusion ofContinue reading “DECLAN Announced as First Event of Traverse Digital Festival 2020”

Restrictions may be lifting, and people getting out and about more, but normal life isn’t quite back yet. For those who are still a wee bit wary of wading back into the current façade of normality, Glasgow based theatre company, Rapture, continues to post a weekly theatrical treat in the form of Rapture Mini Bites.Continue reading “Rapture Theatre in Quarantine”

A 60-minute Fringe variety show and fundraiser, AJ Bell Fringe on Friday, has its first line up announced by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. This new digital event, supported by Manchester based investment platform company AJ Bell, will stream every ‪Friday from 07 to ‪28 August during the Fringe when it will showcase a snapshotContinue reading “AJ Bell Fringe on Friday Announces First Line Up”

Darkfield is a company that creates new innovative work at the forefront of technology and theatre, utilising binaural sound and sensory effects. It has been announced that their first broadcast as Darkfield Radio, entitled DOUBLE, is confirmed as the first ever audio-only experience in the programme for the Venice International Film Festival that runs fromContinue reading “Darkfield’s Latest Work Selected for Venice International Film Festival 2020”