Traverse

Traverse theatre launch new writing festival Write Here

Offers audience chance to see works in progress by many writers

21 Mar 2012

Two months into her role as the Traverse’s artistic director, Orla O’Loughlin has launched one of the most exciting new writing festivals Edinburgh has seen in years. Write Here will showcase work from the theatre’s Young Writers Group graduates…

Tim Price discusses his new play, For Once

The Pentabus production examines the impact of a car crash on the sole survivor

14 Mar 2012

Shropshire’s Pentabus Theatre has earned a shelfload of awards for its imaginative and challenging productions of stories set in rural areas. Television writer Tim Price’s debut play, For Once, is a case in point. Set in Wales, it’s about the impact of…

Spring Awakening unites Douglas Maxwell, Grid Iron and Traverse

Frank Wedekind's attack on sexually-oppressive culture relocated from Germany to Calvinist Scotland

3 Nov 2010

Boldly returning to Frank Wedekind’s original play in the wake of the enormous success of the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening, Douglas Maxwell, together with Grid Iron and the Traverse, has created a fresh, creative and relevant new adaptation…

How a bumper programme at the Traverse Theatre in 1985 changed Scottish culture

25 years of The List

23 Sep 2010

1985 was a landmark year for The Traverse theatre. Peter Arnott, Chris Hannan and Jo Clifford recall working there to Mark Fisher

Traverse Theatre autumn festival 2009

Why the Edinburgh Theatre is ready for battle

10 Nov 2009

Dominic Hill tells Mark Fisher why the Traverse is still on a festival footing

Traverse is the Cat's Whiskers

28 May 2009

Cheshire cat grins all round at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre which has no fewer than 12 nominations in the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). Tickets are now on sale to the public for the annual ceremony at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on…

Raising the curtain

15 Sep 2008

The List steps out from the wings and showcases the very best performance spaces and cherry picks the shows you cannot afford to miss.

Acting out

15 Sep 2008

With the sheer range of different clubs at university you could be forgiven for setting your watch by them, but there is still plenty more to be had just beyond your reach. One man waiting for your call is Tawona Sitholé, whose urban poetry…

Fall

War requiem - Traverse

17 Jul 2008

New director of the Traverse Dominic Hill’s own directorial debut is an unobtrusive choice. Kirstin Innes meets Zinnie Harris, the playwright behind Fall

Rupture

4 Oct 2007

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, until Sat 6 Oct NEW WORK I suppose that in a society obsessed with surveillance and security there’s bound to be a certain level of paranoia among our citizenry, and this itself can turn into neurosis. This certainly…

New Artistic Director at the Traverse

News

17 Jul 2007

TRAVERSE APPOINTS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Scotland’s new writing theatre, the Traverse, which launched the careers of playwrights such as John Byrne, Liz Lochhead and Gregory Burke, has announced the appointment of Dominic Hill as its new…

Re:Union

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 11 - Sat 14 Apr,

9 Apr 2007

NEW WORK Given the amount you’ll be reading over the next few weeks on the issue of the future of the union, I’m loathe to add to your burden. But 7:84 are determined to approach this issue from angles that you won’t expect. True to their general…

New directions

Philip Howard, the longest-serving artistic direct

16 Oct 2006

As Philip Howard walks towards my booth in the far corner of the Traverse bar, I am reminded, not for the first time, of an Englishman abroad, at least in that sense that we foreigners are taught to think of them. There’s something undemonstrative…

Traverse

New directions

12 Oct 2006

As Philip Howard walked towards my booth in the far corner of the Traverse bar, I was reminded somehow, not for the first time, of an Englishman abroad, at least in that sense that we foreigners are taught to think of them. There’s something…

Stage Whispers

7 Sep 2006

? Whispers writes from a darkened room, with a warm damp towel on his head and his feet in a bucket of hot soothing water after the rigours of the festival, but has enough life left in him to lean toward his keyboard and type his regular missive to you…