Joyce McMillan
Book Festival round-up part 2
Writing and performance from all corners of Scotland
Now firmly at home in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Book Festival continues to feature theatre-related events, performances and much else of interest.
Book Fest Round-up
Words from Charlotte Square Gardens
Things theatrical at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
In recent years the Book festival has made a definite effort to engage with the more theatrical side of things
Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams
★★★★☆ Invaluable and illuminating:
Remarkably consistent in quality and generosity of spirit, Joyce McMillan’s Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams, edited by Philip Howard, is vital to anyone seeking to understand Scotland’s cultural life in the last 30 years.
Critics celebrate Romanes
Special CATS Whiskers award for ex Stellar Quines AD:
The Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland will recognise recently departed Stellar Quines artistic director Muriel Romanes for her role as a “tremendous force” in promoting the work of women in Scottish Theatre.
Managerialism threat to theatre
Theatre creativity threatened by ‘managerialism’ says McMillan:
It is ‘the long march of managerialism’, not government cuts, that threatens the vitality of Scottish theatre, according to Joyce McMillan.
EdBookFest Theatre
Tickets on sale 8.30am, Tue 23 June:
Edinburgh Book Festival 2015 tickets go on sale tomorrow morning with a strong number of theatre-related events in the mix.
Sex and death – selling theatres
There’s nothing like a good story to set the pulse racing. Especially one that promises sex, absolute peril or triumph over adversity. Last night on Radio 3, Joyce McMillan’s fantastic little homage to the Traverse Theatre – which you can’t really escape noticing is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year – had all three.
Traverse on Radio 3
A documentary marking Traverse Theatre’s 50th anniversary is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 17 March at 7.45pm as the station’s Sunday Feature.
Traverse Reaches 50
A tour of the three sites occupied by Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre over its 50 year history has been organised for January the 2nd, 2013 – the actual anniversary of the theatre’s opening in 1963.
