Archive for March, 2020
White Easter Egg
Catherine Wheels’ White gets Easter streaming
Catherine Wheels are to live stream Any Manley’s smash hit children’s theatre play White for free on YouTube over the Easter weekend, Friday 10 – Monday 13 April 2020.
Covid latest news
Latest updates on effects of Covid lockdown
EdFringe to announce this week; Creative Scotland announces funding package for creative community; Traverse shutters to June; King’s refurb on ice.
Cultural quickies
Edinburgh’s responses to Covid-19
With everyone having to stay at home, and all the theatres and TV studios dark, it seems that every actor and their cat has started up a daily YouTube or Facebook Live show.
7,000 tune in to Stand
First Saturday Night Live from The Stand a hit:
Almost 7,000 people tuned in live to watch the Edinburgh Stand comedy club’s first ever Saturday Night Live streaming event on Youtube.
Scenes for Survival
NTS creates online theatre project, supports artists:
The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) is to deliver a digital season of new theatre, fulfilling its “without walls” remit and providing support to theatre practitioners.
Comedy keeps Standing
The Stand to stream Saturday Night Live free
Edinburgh’s Stand has announced it is to live stream its Saturday Night Live show, this Saturday 21 March 2020. The stream will be free, with donations welcome.
Anger at government “advice”
Government’s refusal to ban social gatherings slammed, but theatres aren’t giving up the day job just yet.
The Government has been attacked for insisting on providing “advice” to the public on social distancing and to organisers in pulling public events, rather than providing clear instructions to do so.
Covid-19 Theatre status
The current status of Edinburgh’s theatres due to Covid-19:
As the Covid-19 situation changes hourly, this page contains the current open or closed status of each Edinburgh theatre.
More shows off
Two more amateur shows postpone:
This week’s production of Men Should Weep at the Church Hill Theatre has been postponed as one of the EPT company has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the coronavirus.
Donate your ticket!
Support theatres, donate your cancelled ticket
Theatre goers are being asked to support theatres by donating the cost of tickets for cancelled events back to the theatre involved.