Clare Duffy
Many Good Men
★★★★☆ Troubling
Many Good Men, from Civic Digits, Stellar Quines and Stories Untold at Heart of Midlothian’s Tynecastle Stadium, is an urgent and timely production, hard-hitting yet sympathetic.
Theatrical Science
Science Festival kicks off this weekend
Just in time for the school summer holidays, and with Covid restrictions still in place, Edinburgh’s brilliant International Science Festival comes online, running from Saturday 26 June to Sunday 11 July.
Lyceum’s L20 artists
All 21 Lyceum L20 artists announced
The Lyceum has announced the 21 creatives have been invited to join the pilot year of its multi-discipline artists attachment programme, L20, which will run through 2021.
Arctic Oil
★★☆☆☆ Feeble:
Great forces of vital importance are brought into a claustrophobic setting in Clare Duffy’s new two-hander, Arctic Oil, which is the main Autumn production at the Traverse, running to Saturday 20 October.
Some Other Stars
★★★☆☆ Twinkling:
Ghosting in under cover of darkness, Clare Duffy’s darkly questioning play into the nature of sentience opens the new season of lunchtime theatre at the Traverse by stealth.
VPT on ArtCOP beat
Climate Change special at the Pond:
The Village Pub Theatre is to present a one-off performance at Leith’s Pond bar as part of the climate change project ArtCOP Scotland.
MONEY the Game Show
✭✭✭✩✩ Serious fun
An extremely clever idea lies behind MONEY the Game Show, Clare Duffy’s play which originated with the Platform 18: New Directions Award and now returns to the Traverse for a two night run.
Duffy is Trav’s new Creative Fellow
Professional playwright and director Clare Duffy, who is a founding director of Unlimited Theatre, has been made this year’s Creative Fellow at the Traverse Theatre, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
Review – Village Pub Theatre Twitter Special
The record books might not have been bothered at the Village Pub Theatre’s twitter special when only 30 or so of the possible 170 play-in-a-tweets were performed, but the ones which were staged certainly left the audience wanting more.
