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Dateline:20th July, 2006

Dràma Na h-Alba

The Highlands and Islands Theatre Network is planning to mount Scotland's first Theatre Arts Festival and Forum - Dràma Na h-Alba (DNA) during October 2007 and biennially thereafter to celebrate the best of today's theatre in the Highlands and Islands, offering a forum to learn, create and debate.

A Festival Implementation Group is in place, with representatives from HITN member companies and observers from major agencies, including the National Theatre of Scotland, the Playwrights' Studio Scotland, The Federation of Scottish Theatre, Promote YT Scotland, HI~Arts, Highland 2007 and Eden Court Theatre.

The aims of the Festival are:

• To celebrate, share and promote the highest quality theatre and build links between the Highlands and Islands and national and international practitioners;
• To create opportunities for the involvement of the wider communities, including young people and children;
• To provide an environment for Scotland's theatre community to learn, debate, innovate and create.
• The working group has already agreed a set of Programming Principles for the Festival and a provisional core structure for the event, which is currently programmed to run from Thursday 18 to Monday 22 October 2007 and using Eden Court Theatre as the main Festival and Forum hub venue. It is planned to hold the event biennially thereafter.

The Festival plans include new and remounted work from HITN member companies; a partnership production with the National Theatre of Scotland; work from two visiting UK companies, at least one of which will be Scottish; and visiting international companies, which for 2007 are likely to be Dramaten, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, with their new production of "Macbeth" and, Profilteatern, an experimental Swedish company.

The programme also includes Forum and Masterclass Workshop supporting events with national and international visiting practitioners in theatre arts.

A formal announcement of the Festival and Forum Programme will be made at next year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS).

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