⭐️⭐️⭐️ Billy Connolly is surely one of Scotia’s most treasured exports and peeling back the layers of our beloved comic is no easy feat. So where do you even start with Billy Connolly? The sprightly …
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Review: Kidnapped, Theatre Royal Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In modernising a classic text as well-kent as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, Isobel McArthur and the National Theatre of Scotland deliver a rib-tickling adaptation that will delight, enchant and inspire. This swashbuckling adaptation of …
Review: Enough of Him, Pitlochry Festival Theatre Studio
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There is a wave crashing over Scottish theatre this Black History Month, disrupting the peaceful equilibrium to focus minds on Scotland’s uncomfortable relationship slavery and racism. Two major productions turn the spotlight on this …
Kidnapped – a riotous retelling of a classic, touring the UK
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novella is touring Scotland and Northern England in a riotous new retelling in 2023. This swashbuckling new production from the National Theatre of Scotland, adapted by Isobel McArthur with Michael John McCarthy, …
Review: Orphans, SEC Armadillo Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ More than twenty years since the cult classic film, Orphans has been adapted for the stage by the National Theatre for Scotland in a joyous celebration of the fragility of humanity. It’s the night …
NTS announces ‘Ghosts’ – a new immersive digital project
Audiences are invited to download a bespoke app, to plug in their headphones, and immerse themselves in this AR experience exploring the myth of the collective amnesia of slavery and racialised wealth, of empire and identity, and of being lost and found in space and time.
New series of Scenes for Survival confirmed for BBC iPlayer
A new selection of Scenes for Survival shorts will be released on BBC iPlayer on the evening of Monday 14 September. These will include The Present, a tender poetic lament to an absent loved one from writer Stef Smith, starring Moyo Akandé; The …
Final Scenes for Survival announced by National Theatre of Scotland
Scenes for Survival, the innovative digital project created by the National Theatre of Scotland in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, will draw to a close this week with the final four short films in the series set to be released online from today. …
Full Details of NTS ‘Scenes for Survival’ revealed
The National Theatre of Scotland has today revealed the details of the Scenes for Survival launch night and the first “scenes” to be released as part of its crisis responsive artistic project: Scenes for Survival …
Scenes for Survival from National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland has announced further details of its online activity during the current COVID-19 crisis, including a call-out for writers as part of its Scenes for Survival programme of online work, as …