Covid-19
House lights up!
Lyceum reveals lock-down & re-start plans:
Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre has announced House Lights Up, a series of initiatives for the coming months of lockdown, as well as projects preparing to celebrate the theatre’s re-opening, when that day eventually comes.
Phone Fictions online
Visible Fictions host Watch Party:
Glasgow-based theatre company Visible Fictions, whose aim is “to get people thinking, talking, sharing and creating” is premiering the results of a project to create short films on mobile phones.
Five from Inside
★★★☆☆ Zippy:
A series of enigmatic, eclectic discoveries, Five From Inside’s guerrilla-portraits of isolation expose some of the tensions facing theatre-makers staring down a digital ‘new normal.’
The Tempest
★★★★☆ Virtual storm:
While many theatre companies have resorted to screening films of existing shows during lockdown, Banbury-based Creation Theatre has not only created a new piece of theatre but is performing it live.
Hidden Door Postpones
Festival will pop-up in Spring 2021:
Edinburgh’s innovative Hidden Door Festival has postponed the majority of this year’s event because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Seaside streaming
Dunbar company puts Mary QoS play online:
Battery Theatre, which creates site-specific shows for and about the community of Dunbar, is putting its most recent production online, after being forced to cancel this summer’s offering due to Covid-19.
Broadway Bound 2020
Easter school continues in lockdown
While many Easter holiday performance schemes have decided not to run during Covid-19 lockdown, one school has stayed resolutely open and is even going to give its annual concert – online.
Capital Theatres dark to midsummer
Festival, Kings & Studio closed to June 21:
Capital Theatres has announced that its Festival, King’s and Studio theatres will now be closed until Sunday 21 June 2020 due to the Covid-19 lockdown, while the Jazz Festival cancels completely.
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.
In celebration of the Public House
★★★★☆ Virtually strong:
The Leith-based Village Pub Theatre made a welcome return on Friday evening by virtue of virtual meeting platform, Zoom, for a live performance of seven sparkling new plays, performed script-in-hand.
