Covid-19
roulette
★★★☆☆ Frothy
roulette, Production Lines’ latest foray into online theatre, makes excellent use of technology. If it is unaware of exactly where it is heading, there is considerable enjoyment to be had along the way.
Extra £9m for creative freelancers
Creative Scotland’s emergency fund topped up
Creative Scotland is to share £9 million of new funding with Screen Scotland, for their Covid-19 hardship funds for creative freelancers.
Love theatre – live
Live online perfs for roulette premiere
Production Lines is to premiere Claire Wood’s racy new play, roulette, live – and online – for Valentines, with the Edinburgh grassroots company streaming five performances this weekend (13/14 Feb 2021) and next.
Lyceum’s home theatre experience
Sound Stage offers “at home theatre experience”
A new play by Mark Ravenhill is to open Sound Stage, the Lyceum’s latest experimental online theatre season of eight new premieres from leading Scottish and British playwrights, presented in an immersive audio theatre setting.
Covid-19 impact research
Creative Scotland to asses financial impact on sector
Creative Scotland has created a new online survey to examine the impact and challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic on Scotland’s creative sectors.
Brunton puts panto on screen
Rapunzel hangs out on Brunton’s Silver Screen
The Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh is determined to put on panto this year, so has created a film version of Rapunzel The Pantomime, screening in its cinema over Christmas – and available to stream online
£500k lifeline for Cap Theatres
Capital Theatres gets £0.5 million emergency funds
The Scottish Government has announced an emergency grant of £500,000 for Capital Theatres, the charity which runs Edinburgh’s King’s, Festival and Studio theatres.
Freelance Hardship Fund Details Published
How to apply for the CS £5m emergency fund
Creative Scotland has published details of who is eligible for the £5m Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers and how to apply when it goes live on Monday 26 October 2020 at noon.
Shrapnel Live & Online
Pandemic show Shrapnel gets Zoom premiere
Edinburgh grassroots theatre company Production Lines is staging C.M.F. Wood’s pandemic play Shrapnel live on Zoom for four performances at the end of November.
Performers eligible for £5m hardship fund
Creative Scotland confirms eligibility:
Creative Scotland has confirmed that actors, dancers and other performers will be eligible to access the Scottish government’s £5 million Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers.
