New Theatre podcast launched
A history of Scottish Drama in six plays
Fergus Morgan, the Stage’s Scotland correspondent and theatre critic, is launching new podcast, A history of Scottish Drama in six plays, with a recording of the seventh and final episode tonight, Monday 28 October 2024, at the Traverse.
The Seven part podcast will be available weekly from today. It charts the evolution of Scottish drama from pre-reformation times to the present. To accompany the release of the podcast, Morgan will host a panel discussion on the current state of Scottish drama at a launch event on Monday 28 October, which will be recorded live and released as a seventh and final episode of the series on Monday 9 December.
A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays
The opening episode examines what theatre looked like in pre-Reformation Scotland. Experts including the critic Joyce McMillan, director Gregory Thompson, and academics Professor Trish Reid and Dr Lesley Mickel discuss who David Lyndsey was and why he wrote A Satire Of The Three Estates. What makes it such a remarkable play? And what came next, after the Reformation?
The launch event will run from 6.30pm until 9pm in the Traverse Bar, with the discussion taking place from 7.15pm until 8.15pm. Panellists include the critic Mark Fisher, the playwrights Nicola McCartney and Isla Cowan, and Traverse Theatre artistic director Gareth Nicholls. Free tickets are available here.
A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays has been created with support from the Scottish Society of Playwrights’ SSP@50 Fellowship Awards, which are supported by Creative Scotland, and Bespoken Media. It is made in association with the Traverse Theatre.
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A history of Scottish Drama in six plays
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- Episode one (Monday 28 Oct) delves into A Satire Of The Three Estates, written by Sir David Lyndsay in the mid-sixteenth century.
- Episode two (Monday 4 Nov) focuses on Glasgow Unity Theatre and Ena Lamont Stewart’s social realist classic Men Should Weep (1947).
- Episode three (Monday 11 Nov) explores the explosion of activity in Scottish theatre in the 1970s, concentrating on 7:84 and John McGrath’s ceilidh play The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil (1973)
- Episode four (Monday 18 Nov) is about the Traverse Theatre in 1980s and focuses on Jo Clifford’s Losing Venice (1985).
- Episode five (Monday 25 Nov) looks to the 1990s and Stephen Greenhorn’s Passing Places (1997).
- Episode six (Monday 2 Dec) arrives in the twenty-first century, centring on the foundation of the National Theatre of Scotland and the success of Gregory Burke’s Black Watch (2006).
- Episode seven (Monday 9 Dec) a panel discussion on the current state of Scottish with critic Mark Fisher, playwrights Nicola McCartney and Isla Cowan, and Traverse Theatre artistic director Gareth Nicholls.
Your host: Fergus Morgan. Pic: Alex Brenner.
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