Zinnie Harris
Tracks of the Winter Bear
★★★☆☆ Two winter’s tales:
Tracks of the Winter Bear, the Traverse’s pre-Christmas show which plays up until Christmas Eve, is an odd beast.
NTS 2016 Season announce
Edinburgh tickets on NTS list:
Big hits and tight flits are among the Edinburgh shows and events announced in the first six months of the National Theatre of Scotland 2016 season.
The Garden
★★★★☆ Insightful dystopia:
Truth permeates The Garden, Zinnie and John Harris’ semi-opera, commissioned by Aberdeen’s sound Festival and playing off-site at the Traverse.
Letters Home
★★★★☆ Power of communication
Letters Home combines inventiveness, variety, sophisticated writing and sheer visual magnetism.
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.
Lyceum adds Dolls House to season
The Royal Lyceum has added the NTS’s new production of A Dolls House to its 2012/13 season, following the rescheduling of its planned production of new David Haig play, Pressure, to 2014.
TravCasts available to download
#EdFringe playwright interviews online By Thom Dibdin Interviews with four playwrights whose work was performed at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre during this year’s fringe are now available to download. The Traverse podcasts – TravCasts – are the latest foray into new media from Scotland’s new writing theatre. The fringe TravCasts feature the theatre’s literary editor, Jennifer […]
Theatre Review – The Garden
★★★☆☆ Lingering:
Short, bleak and lingering, Zinnie Harris’ The Garden feels like a very fitting end to this Spring’s season of A Play, A Pie and a Pint at the Traverse.
