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Dateline: 27th February, 2011

NTS Stages the Nation

In its fifth year, the National Theatre of Scotland is instituting a nation-wide conversation about theatre with Scottish artists and audiences. Staging The Nation features a number of strands – lectures, debates, curated events, book clubs - and is open to everyone who cares about theatre-making in Scotland. The Staging the Nation website features further information, updates and box office details.

Lectures

During the course of the year, a variety of artists will be delivering lectures and talks as well as contributing online essays, responding to and further provoking discussion around a number of themes. National Theatre of Scotland will host opportunities for public participation, including live online discussions, some of which include:

• Andrew O’Hagan on civic memory in Scottish culture
• David Greig on what is a Scottish play?
• Anne Bonnar on entrepreneurialism and Scottish theatre

Dramatic Legacy Events

Each of these curated events aims to unite audiences with some of the country’s most interesting and creative minds to discuss and debate Scotland’s dramatic legacy. Taking place across Scotland, in a variety of locations and venues, each conversation will be led by a different artist to uncover and explore different topics:

• The Traverse, New Writing and how it changed the World curated by Chris Hannan, joined by John Byrne, David Hayman and members of the original cast of The Slab Boys
• The design of the Citizens Theatre and its influence on UK theatre curated by Stewart Laing
• Scottish Political Theatre and its impact on the contemporary theatrical landscape (curator to be announced)
• Scotland’s Popular Form: Variety, Pantomime and theatre for the people (curator to be announced)

Organisers invite the theatre community to suggest the theme of the fifth event by visiting the website.

Online Book Group

Each month, the public will be invited to read a play selected from the Scottish canon to then be discussed online. The initial selection:

• March: The Anatomist by James Bridie (ISBN 978-0-948877-70-4)
• April: Bondagers by Sue Glover (available on Amazon and from Methuen)
• May: The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald (available at www.fairplaypress.co.uk)
• June: McGrotty and Ludmilla by Alasdair Gray (some used on Amazon, and at www.alasdairgray.co.uk)
• July: Willie Rough by Bill Bryden (some used copies available on line, but out of print)
• Aug: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by Sir David Lyndsay (available from Amazon)

Organisers invite the public to suggest additional books by visiting: www.stagingthenation.com

Favourite Play Events

The National Theatre of Scotland has asked Scottish playwrights to pick their favourite Scottish plays. Throughout 2011, a number of these plays will be performed in staged readings in locations across the country.

The first event will feature Peter Arnott introducing a rehearsed reading of Joe Corrie’s Time of Strife (venue details to be announced on the website).

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