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The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler – Review

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler – Review

✭✭✭✭✩ Slightly imperfect

Infectious and entertaining, The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler is an engaging production whose flaws do not detract from its essential likeability.

Apr 30 2014 | 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
First Look: Dear Scotland

First Look: Dear Scotland

It is half time at the press performances of Dear Scotland, the National Theatre of Scotland’s collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. While we wait for Tour B to start, here are some photos of the show taken by Peter Dibdin.

Apr 28 2014 | By | Reply More
First Look: Ivor Cutler

First Look: Ivor Cutler

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler opens in Glasgow Words: Thom Dibdin Photos: Tim Morozzo The strange and idiosyncratic world of Ivor Cutler has been brought to the stage in a new co-production between Matthew Lenton’s Vanishing Point and the National Theatre of Scotland. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler opened at the Glasgow Citizens […]

Apr 16 2014 | By | Reply More
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart  – Review

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart – Review

Playful and proficient, David Greig and Wils Wilson’s celebrated production of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart for the NTS continues to delight audiences and is well worthy of any compliments it has been paid.

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Five Minute Theatre returns for referendum debate

Five Minute Theatre returns for referendum debate

Proposals for entries to this summer’s Five Minute Theatre event from the National Theatre of Scotland will close this Sunday, 23 March 2014.

Mar 17 2014 | By | Reply More
Prudencia’s coming home

Prudencia’s coming home

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, the pub-set, site-specific hit by David Greig and Wils Wilson for the National Theatre of Scotland is to play limited dates at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy theatre this March.

Feb 26 2014 | By | Reply More
Rantin – Review

Rantin – Review

✭✭✭✭✩ Solidarity in storytelling

Possibilities splurge out from Kieren Hurley’s Rantin, which enjoyed a one-night stand at Summerhall while on its month-long tour around the country under the auspices of the National Theatre of Scotland.

Feb 6 2014 | By | Reply More
Preview of the week Mon 27 May – Sun 2 June

Preview of the week Mon 27 May – Sun 2 June

There’s a busy but rather bitty week ahead for theatregoers in Edinburgh with plenty of new shows opening – or arriving in town – but few on for more than a day or three.

May 27 2013 | By | Reply More
Snowman & Carol extend theatre to new audiences

Snowman & Carol extend theatre to new audiences

The Festival Theatre is to stage a one-off “relaxed” performance of The Snowman on Friday 14, to benefit children with complex additional and behavioural needs.

And a similar performance of the National Theatre of Scotland’s award-winning A Christmas Carol is to be staged in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Sunday 16.

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