National Theatre of Scotland
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 […]
The Vicious Circle
First published in The Stage, March 18 2010 Now entering its fifth year, the National Theatre of Scotland has suffered considerable criticism in recent times through the press, with accusations that it is failing to fulfil its duty as a promote of Scottish theatrical tradition. Such vilification is misguided, argues Thom Dibdin, and in fact […]
Skrynka Mounts the Wall of Death!
By Thom Dibdin Stephen Skrynka, the visual artist at the centre of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Wall of Death: A Way of Life has fulfilled a lifetime’s dream and ridden a motorbike onto the wall of death. The show, which features the Ken Fox Troupe and their wall of death fairground side-show, started in […]
Theatre Review – Wall of Death: A Way of Life
* * * * Royal Highland Centre By Thom Dibdin Thrilling and theatrical, the National Theatre of Scotland’s latest piece of sight-specific theatre arrives at the Royal Highland Centre with the piece’s originator, Stephen Skrynka, finally succeeding in riding his motorbike up onto the lipped edge of the wooden wall of death. Skrynka has achieved […]
Preview for the week: 22 – 28 February, 2010
By Thom Dibdin There’s a pervasive darkness to Edinburgh’s stages this week. Not dark in the traditional theatrical sense of shut theatres, but dark in the sense of calamitous events holding their own in the background. The Lyceum’s early McDonagh, both the Traverse’s new works and even Wilde’s melodrama at the Kings all carry a […]
Preview for the week: 15 – 21 February, 2010
By Thom Dibdin Edinburgh’s stages are choca-block this week with ten different musical, theatre and dance productions hitting town. There’s the first performance at a new venue as Tempo get down at Broughton High School and a completely one-off venue out at Ingliston as the National Theatre of Scotland bring round their Wall of Death. […]
Wall of Death or Way of Life?
By Thom Dibdin When you call your show the Wall of Death and open it on a Friday night in Glasgow, you’d have to expect the cast of Taggart to turn up en masse, on the lookout for a Murrderr. In fact, nothing of the sort happened at the SECC last night – at least […]
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