David Greig
Yellow Moon – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Thunderstruck
The EUTC give a thunderous showing of David Greig’s Yellow Moon at the Bedlam, with a production that flows seamlessly through Greig’s dark, poetic, script.
Dunsinane
★★★★☆ Subtlety finds solid ground
David Greig’s Dunsinane, a ‘continuation’ of Macbeth with nods to contemporary events, is once again on tour thanks to the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and if anything it seems like an even better play than it did last time round.
Blog – Found at Sea
Every bit of Found at Sea is brilliant. This “preview of work in progress” at the Traverse to Saturday, is a succession of shimmering moments and glittering sequences.
Traverse announces first half of fiftieth anniversary season
Well known playwrights and completely unknown writers are among the highlights of the Traverse’s 50th anniversary season, announced on Wednesday.
Traverse bartender’s bid for NY Academy
A short play by the Midsummer team of David Greig and Gordan McIntyre will head up a benefit in the Traverse bar tonight, Monday 15 October, to help faise funds for Steve McMahon to take up a place at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Prudencia Hart to go on year-long tour
Border Ballad show to hit the global road By Thom Dibdin The National Theatre of Scotland has announced a year long tour of last year’s Fringe hit, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, which is selling out even before it has begun. There are no public tickets left for either the Edinburgh dates in April […]
Bissett and Pidgeon reunite for Midsummer in January
One-off performances of Traverse smash hit prior to Oz tour:
Midsummer (a play with songs), the 2008 smash hit by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre for the Traverse, is to get a one-off staging in January, ahead of a tour to Australia.
What makes a play Scottish?
Greig and Scott go head to head in Staging the Nation debate:
What is a Scottish play? Not The Scottish Play – everyone knows of thespians’ superstitious euphemism for Macbeth when under a proscenium arch – but how do you define a truly Scottish play? Indeed, can it even be done?
NTS brings Staging The Nation events to Edinburgh
Bonnar on entrepreneurialism – Greig and Henderson Scott on the Scottish Play By Thom Dibdin The first of a pair of events in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Staging the Nation series takes place at the Royal Lyceum on Thursday 6 october, when cultural and creative consultant Anne Bonnar presents a lecture on the tradition […]
TravCasts available to download
#EdFringe playwright interviews online By Thom Dibdin Interviews with four playwrights whose work was performed at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre during this year’s fringe are now available to download. The Traverse podcasts – TravCasts – are the latest foray into new media from Scotland’s new writing theatre. The fringe TravCasts feature the theatre’s literary editor, Jennifer […]
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