Linda Crooks

Football play closes Trav 60
Same Team – Street Soccer Story to play Traverse in December
The final play of the Traverse’s 60th anniversary season is to be Same Team – Street Soccer Story, by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, created with the women of Street Soccer’s Dundee Change Centre and inspired by the Homeless World Cup.

Disappearing Act
Scottish producing theatre in existential danger
Scotland’s producing theatre sector, which includes the Traverse and the Lyceum, is in imminent danger of collapse unless it can take collective action on a number of different fronts, according to a major new report.

Traverse Springs delights
New play and six PPPs added to Traverse’s Spring season
The Traverse has announced the first new productions of its sixtieth year in operation and a new season of lunchtime theatre, along with the appointment of a new Chair and two new trustees to sit on the board.

Physical distancing lifted – official responses
Theatres and events respond to physical distancing news
The announcement in Holyrood on Tuesday that, if all goes according to plan, physical distancing will be completely lifted on Monday 9 August 2021 has been welcomed by Edinburgh’s theatres and events organisers.

Trav in redundancy talks
Over a third of jobs at risk as theatre closed to 2021:
The jobs of 11 customer-facing and technical staff at the Traverse are at risk as the theatre enters redundancy talks with its 28 permanent staff and announces it will be closed until 2021.

Five from Inside
Traverse responds to Donny’s Brain cancellation
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre is releasing a quintet of video monologues to coincide with what would have been the world premiere run of Rona Munro’s Donny’s Brain.