British Theatre Guide

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Scotland

Reviews

Mustard

Eva O'Connor

Fishamble: The New Play Company, in association with Sunday’s Child Theatre

Traverse 3

1–14 December 2020

Jonathan Watson, Suzanne Magowan and Maureen Carr

Fibres

Frances Poet

Citizens Theatre and Stellar Quines

Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

25 November–23 December 2020

In Someone Else’s Shoes

In Someone Else’s Shoes: Edinburgh’s Unexpected Summer

Hannah Price

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

28 September–25 October 2020

News

Tom McGovern in Peter Arnott’s The Signalman (Òran Mór)

Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland

15 November 2020

Playwright Peter Arnott calls for a radical restructuring of the arts post-COVID at the 2020 CATS, a celebration of what we can look forward to and a reminder what we stand to lose, says CATS convenor.

Director Jemima Levick in rehearsals for a new filmed version of Fibres, a co-production between Stellar Quines and the Citizens Theatre

Where Are The Women? Part 2

9 November 2020

Building on 2016's Where Are The Women?, this new report provides a largely good news story for gender equality in the industry in Scotland.

Ken Gouge, Chair of the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival

Live performance returns to Scotland

4 October 2020

Dumfries and Galloway Council's funding sees live performance return to the region next year, National Theatre of Scotland augment their online programme with live streams, but horror from Edinburgh is delivered safely online.

Features

Creative Scotland allocates first tranche of Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund

Scotland's Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund

8 November 2020

£11.75 million of Scotland's £15 million Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund has been allocated by Creative Scotland.

Finborough Theatre

Favourite theatres on death row and an extra-terrestrial solution

11 September 2020

Philip Fisher highlights the plight of the Finborough Theatre in London and some of Edinburgh's finest, while remaining cynical about the government's Moonshine project.