National Theatre of Scotland
Lyceum adds Dolls House to season
The Royal Lyceum has added the NTS’s new production of A Dolls House to its 2012/13 season, following the rescheduling of its planned production of new David Haig play, Pressure, to 2014.
Pass the Spoon up for CS Award
Edinburgh-based Magnetic North’s Pass The Spoon is one of 39 finalists from across Scotland which have been shortlisted for inaugural Creative Scotland Awards.
Five Minute Theatre Returns with Youth theme
NTS calls for new pieces for 14 July transmission By Thom Dibdin The National Theatre of Scotland is calling for submissions for its next Five Minute Theatre event, which will take place on Saturday 14 July. The second of five planned transmissions this year, the theme will be Youth. Applications are open now and should […]
Review – Damascus-Aleppo
✭✭★✩✩ Traverse Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin Lunchtime theatre returns to the Traverse with a production of such rich complexity that it is not so much fit to be accompanied by a pie and a pint but a three course meal and an after-dinner brandy. David Greig, the curator of the current Play, Pie and […]
Featherstone to leave NTS at end of 2012
NTS artistic director takes up post with Royal Court By Thom Dibdin Vicky Featherstone, inaugural artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland is leaving to take up the post of artistic director at the Royal Court in London. Featherstone will take up her new position in Spring 2013 and will continue to lead the […]
NTS Announces Five Minute Theatre participants
The National Theatre of Scotland’s latest Five Minute Theatre project includes seven Edinburgh groups with pieces on the theme of “protest”.
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 […]
Five minutes of theatrical protest
NTS to reprise online five minute theatre initiative By Thom Dibdin The National Theatre of Scotland is to build on last summer’s online Five Minute Theatre experience with five short-burst open-call themed projects scheduled during 2012. The first of these will take place on May 1 with a general theme of “protest”. Members of the […]
The Thistle Has Landed
NTS Staging the Nation political theatre event at Holyrood By Thom Dibdin Staging the Nation, the National Theatre of Scotland’s road show talking shop, arrived back in Edinburgh this week with all guns blazing, to prove that political theatre is alive and well and quite capable of pricking against the kicks in Scotland. Staged in […]
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?
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