Jenna Watt
Faslane
✭✭✭✭✩ Therapeutic:
Jenna Watt’s affecting exploration of Trident in Faslane may never go nuclear, but her sympathetic approach to a complex issue restores some much-needed humanity to an increasingly polarised body politic.
How You Gonna Live Your Dash
★★★★☆ Invigorating:
Arriving at the Traverse for the last three dates of a small Scottish tour, Jenna Watt’s How You Gonna Live Your Dash is an invigorating, flawed and constantly needling hour of live theatre.
Nurturing talent
Traverse Hothouse response to explosion of local productions:
This August, almost 90 Edinburgh-based productions appeared at the fringe – more than ever before. While the amateur, professional and youth companies were present as usual, it was in Edinburgh’s unfunded, shoestring companies that the real growth was obvious.
WITS on the case for IWD
High profile playwrights, emerging artists and intellectual heavyweights are joining together for a Women in Theatre Scotland event at Edinburgh’s Traverse on Saturday 8 March, International Women’s Day.
Review – Flâneurs
The attack and mugging of a friend in London, horrified writer and creator Jenna Watt. Even more so, when she discovered that the attack to place in front of many witnesses.
Preview of the week Mon 20 – Sun 26 May
There is not quite as much on this week, after last week’s hectic schedule left many Edinburgh theatre-lovers wondering which way to turn. But there is still something for most tastes, from Beckett to Buckan by way of Liz Lochhead.
Trav 50 join in down the pub
Details of the February Villag Pub Theatre event have been announced, with six short plays being presented as rehearsed readings at the Villager, South Fort Street on Thursday, 28th.