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Scotland

Reviews

Leo Tetteh as the Young Boy, on set of Scottish Ballet's first ever feature film The Secret Theatre

The Secret Theatre

Choreography by Christopher Hampson & Peter Darrell, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tc...

Scottish Ballet

21–24 December 2020

Ali Watt as Lari, Clare Grogan as Mrs Claus, Colin McCredie as Santa and Barbara Hockaday as Hari

The Magic of Christmas

Russell Beard and Elizabeth Newman, based on a short play by Elizabeth Newman...

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Pitlochry Festival Theatre Garden

9–23 December 2020

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

News

Bringing The Metaphor To Life Workshop - MANIPULATE Festival

MANIPULATE digital

17 January 2021

This year's MANIPULATE Festival goes online to deliver screenings, workshops and a celebration of womxn in animation, with some lucky Scots getting a moving sculpture installation.

We Ask These Questions of Everybody

Verbatim online opera from all-disabled ensemble

13 January 2021

New verbatim opera We Ask These Questions of Everybody from composer Amble Skuse will be performed online by an all-disabled ensemble at Scotland's Sound Festival 2021.

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.

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.