Nicola McCartney

Class Act: Ukraine Edition

Class Act: Ukraine Edition

Special Ukraine version of Trav’s flagship engagement project

The Traverse has announced a week-long version of its flagship schools engagement project, Class Act, working with young Ukrainians from across Scotland to create plays to be performed script-in-hand on Saturday 13 April 2024.

Apr 2 2024 | By | Reply More
Ragnarok

Ragnarok

★★★★☆ Dark

Tortoise in a Nutshell has brought all its considerable prowess in live animation to the stage with Ragnarok, a dark and foreboding take on an ancient Norse myth, foretelling the end of our world.

Feb 13 2024 | By | Reply More
How Not To Drown

How Not To Drown

★★★★☆ Relentless

How Not To Drown is a moving true story of a young boy’s perilous journey from Kosovo to England, co-written and performed by the man himself. Which, in this ThickSkin and Traverse Theatre Company production, makes for a vital piece of theatre.

Mar 31 2023 | By | Reply More
Muster Station: Leith (EIF)

Muster Station: Leith (EIF)

★★★★☆ Chilling

Muster Station: Leith, by immersive theatre specialists Grid Iron for the EIF, uses the halls and corridors of Leith Academy to suggest what it might be like when the climate emergency reaches a crisis point, here, in Edinburgh.

Aug 20 2022 | By | Reply More
How Not To Drown

How Not To Drown

★★★☆☆     Human drama:

How Not To Drown at the Traverse is an involving and humane piece of theatre, detailing stories that need to be heard. However – in theatrical terms – problems of structuring cause its impact to be diminished.

Aug 5 2019 | By | Reply More
Bedfest returns

Bedfest returns

EUTC’s theatre festival at Bedlam:
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s theatre festival BedFest runs at its home at the Bedlam this week with six different productions and 14 workshops.

Jan 19 2016 | By | Reply More
Dear Scotland – Review

Dear Scotland – Review

✭✭✭✭✩ Portrait of a mindset

Dear Scotland, You are a country of many fine actors, both young and old, a country with many ideas that have to be said and with many people who have the wit to say them. Now the NTS has found a stage on which this to happen.

Apr 29 2014 | By | Reply More