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Opinion: does the Royal Lyceum's new season display a gender bias?
17 May 2013
Critic Hannah McGill takes a look at the theatre's 2013 programme and finds it lacking
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Scotland’s largest producing theatre, just announced its 2013–14 programme. Artistic Director Mark Thomson is proud to have mounted ‘in tough times… a season of work that celebrates the inspiration of great thinkers…
A guide to the best upcoming Scottish theatre talent
6 Nov 2012
The brightest and most multitalented young stage talents in Scotland
Joe Douglas After graduating in 2006 with a degree in theatre directing, Douglas got an early break when he became a trainee director in residence with the National Theatre of Scotland. His production of Dennis Kelly’s children’s show Our Teacher’s a…
Interview: Cora Bissett and David Greig on Whatever Gets You Through the Night
25 Jun 2012
Night-themed project brings together theatre, music, film and a book
Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One have stayed up past their bedtimes to hang out with some of Scotland’s coolest actors, bands and artists. Anna Burnside takes an extra slug of coffee to find out Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Whatever Gets You Through the Night - artist interviews
25 Jun 2012
Stef Smith, Kieran Hurley, Withered Hand, Wounded Knee and Annie Griffin
Stef Smith playwright ‘Everyone knows what 4am feels like. How exciting to explore the secrets, silences and stolen moments that take place then. My piece is about an elderly man driving through the night to get to Loch Lomond. I felt it was…
The Silence of Bees
13 Apr 2012
New play by the writer of Roadkill explores family tensions against a backdrop of bee-keeping
This moving site-specific piece written and directed by Stef Smith, award-winning playwright behind 2010’s human trafficking drama Roadkill, focuses on three generations of women who have dedicated their lives to bee-keeping and honey production.
Behaviour theatre festival 2012
27 Feb 2012
Highlights include work by Mammalian Diving Reflex, Stef Smith Fish & Game
‘There are some performances I see and think right away, that’s a Behaviour show,’ says Arches artistic director Jackie Wylie. Controversial American dancer-performance-artist Ann Liv Young’s The Mermaid Show – performed naked apart from a silvery tail…
2011 Arches Live! theatre programme is biggest yet
24 Aug 2011
Over 30 performances of challenging theatre and live art
As Edinburgh’s yearly festivities wind down, Glasgow’s Arches steps up with another packed out schedule of new, challenging theatre and live art. Often regarded as a platform for exciting young Scottish artists, 2011’s Arches Live! programme is the…
