Robert Softley Gale
Traverse Springs delights
New play and six PPPs added to Traverse’s Spring season
The Traverse has announced the first new productions of its sixtieth year in operation and a new season of lunchtime theatre, along with the appointment of a new Chair and two new trustees to sit on the board.
Don’t. Make. Tea.
★★★★☆ Surprising
Don’t. Make. Tea., at the Traverse for four nights only, finds Rob Drummond scripting a dark tale of the labyrinthine benefits system for Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.
One of Two
★★★☆☆ Involving
One of Two, a one-hander from Jack Hunter in association with Birds of Paradise at Summerhall, presents a personal story with comic assurance and the odd flash of anger.
Children’s Fest Listing
What’s on at the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
As the end of May looms, thoughts turn to the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, which this year runs from May 25 through to the first weekend of June.
Lyceum Christmas Tales V – VIII
★★★★☆ Fresh
The last four of the pre-recorded Lyceum Christmas Tales provide another helping of laughter, reflection and hope.
Musicals Hub for Studio
Cap Theatres to develop new Scottish musicals
Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre have set up a new joint venture, the Musical Commissioning Hub, to work with Scottish musicians and writers to develop new musicals.
Lyceum’s Live Xmas
Live Shows planned for Christmas:
The Lyceum Theatre has revealed plans for a live family production in December, staged in a dramatically re-shaped auditorium to enhance social distancing.
National Partnership for Culture
New ScotGov Culture Group:
The Scottish Government has set up a new group to advise it delivering its cultural strategy which will also address the challenges facing the culture sector from Covid-19.
Time for the Tin Soldier
Birds of Paradise retell Hans Christian Andersen for the stage:
The Festival Theatre Studio is being taken over by Birds of Paradise theatre this December with a brand new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s first ever story for children – The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Purposeless Movements
★★★★☆ Startling:
There is a layer of magic of the theatrical kind to Robert Softley Gale’s Purposeless Movements for Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, at the Traverse for a limited run.
