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  • Taggart star Alex Norton  as Mr Fish N. Chips, The First Minister of Scotland performing in Home Project Edinburgh - Parliament Play.<br />
National Theatre Scotland Opening Night. 25th February 2006. Home Edinburgh is one of ten events to launch the opening.<br />
HOME EDINBURGH - The Queen’s Hall - created and directed by Anthony Neilson.<br />
With Tam Dean Burn, Shauna Macdonald, Colin McCredie, Raquel Cassidy, Dawn Steele Joe McFadden, Alex Norton, Daniela Nardini.<br />
A mock session of First Minister’s Questions, scripted by children between the ages of 10 and 12 years old and performed by a collection of Scotland’s finest actors.  An unusual and irreverent theatrical happening – part parliamentary occasion, part Mad Hatter’s tea party, revealing the imagination, naivety and idealism of children and their uncensored insights into what they think government is all about. <br />
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Picture  © Drew Farrell Tel 07721-735041. Payment at all times.<br />
Billed as a completely unique, never-to-be-repeated event: ten inspiring directors, ten surprising locations, ten brand new pieces of simultaneous site-responsive theatre created across the country to mark the launch of the National Theatre of Scotland. <br />
10 locations, 55 performances and theatre for 10,000 people.
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  • The Wolves in the Walls<br />
Frances Thorburn as Lucy ( pictured ) during the <br />
NTS ( National Theatre Scotland) and Improbable Co-production  of ' The Wolves in the Walls'  in association with Tramway, Glasgow. Based on the childrenÕs graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.Conceived and created for the stage by Vicky Featherstone, Julian Crouch and Nick Powell. Designed by Julian Crouch. With lighting by Natasha Chivers<br />
WITH <br />
Cora Bissett as mum, Iain Johnstone as dad, Ryan Fletcher as brother, Frances Thorburn as Lucy and Cait Davis, Ewan Hunter, Jessica Tomchak and Jason Webb as the wolves.<br />
This is the story of Lucy, who hears creeping, creaking, crumpling noises coming from behind the wallpaper and is convinced that there are wolves in the walls of her house. Her jam-making mother, tuba-playing father and video game obsessed brother think the noises are really mice, or rats or bats. But they are wrong and she is right as they will all soon find outÉ<br />
Picture Drew Farrell/Lebrecht. Note to Editors. Payment required at all times.
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  • Picture shows : National Theatre of Scotland Reveal's headline production, the only fully-finished production and certainly the one likely to grab the most attention, is Girl X, a collaboration between Scottish actor and equalities activist Robert Softley ( pictured centre )and Belgian director Pol Heyvaert..Venue and performances .TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH.4th to 13th MARCH 2011.CITIZENS THEATRE, GLASGOW.16th to 19th MARCH 2011.DUNDEE REP THEATRE.12th APRIL 2011.EDEN COURT THEATRE, INVERNESS.19th & 20th APRIL 2011.For further information press contact on this production is Andrew Neilson 0141-227-9497...Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.
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  • Picture shows :   Paul Higgins as the lead character William Paterson.<br />
World premiere of Caledonia, written by Alistair Beaton is a story of greed, euphoria and mass delusion. It is the story of a small, poor country mistaking itself for a place that is both big and rich. It is an ancient story for modern times. A co-production between the Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland. <br />
King's Theatre, Edinburgh. Friday 20th -26th August 2010. Edinburgh International Festival. Picture Drew Farrell. <br />
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William Paterson was a financial adventurer who in 1698 devised one of the most daring and disastrous speculations of all time. His plan: to found a Scottish colony in Darien on the isthmus of Panama in Central America and turn Scotland, one of the poorest nations in Europe, into a prosperous colonial power. He invited the public to invest. And they did - in a big way. Within weeks a vast proportion of the nation's wealth had been subscribed.<br />
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Inspired by documents, journals, letters, songs and poems of the period, celebrated playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton has created a work that is both a tribute to heroic ambition and a darkly witty take on the deceptions and self-deceptions of rich and poor alike. Caledonia is directed by Anthony Neilson, the Scottish writer and director whose award-winning work for the Edinburgh International Festival has included the National Theatre of Scotland's Realism and The Wonderful World of Dissocia.<br />
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World Premiere<br />
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National Theatre of Scotland<br />
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Anthony Neilson Director<br />
Peter Mckintosh Designer <br />
Chahine Yavroyan Lighting Designer <br />
Nick Sagar Sound Designer <br />
Paddy Cunneen Composer <br />
Anna Morrissey Movement Director<br />
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Cast Paul Blair, Tam Dean Burn, Cliff Burnett, David Carlyle, Alan Francis, Frances Grey, Paul Higgins, Neil McKinven, Robert Melling, Matthew Pidgeon, Morna Young.
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  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Thursday 28th March 2013. A scene from the National Theatre of Scotland production of 'Black Watch'. Since its very first performances, Black Watch has received standing ovations and enjoyed sold-out performances everywhere it has appeared, nationally and internationally.<br />
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Main Actor pictured is Stuart Martin, during a scene that depicts the historical attire of the Black Watch. Scott Flecther is lying down.

Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Gregory Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq. 

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror and what it means to make the journey home again. 

John Tiffany’s production makes powerful and inventive use of movement, music and song to create a visceral, complex and urgent piece of theatre that is as relevant now as ever.

To date Black Watch has played to tens of thousands of people across three continents and has garnered 22 awards, including four Laurence Olivier Awards - Best Director, Best Theatre Choreography, Best Play and Best Sound Design - and the National Theatre of Scotland won its first US award with the New York Drama Circle naming Black Watch Best Foreign Play.<br />
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The current tour kicks off in Glasgow today and finishes in San Francisco in June 2013.<br />
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SECC, Glasgow
28/03/2013 - 13/04/2013 <br />
Norfolk & Norwich Festival
17/04/2013 - 20/04/2013 <br />
Paramount Theatre, Seattle
25/04/2013 - 05/05/2013 <br />
American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco
09/05/2013 - 16/06/2013
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  • Picture shows :  Alan Cumming as Dionysus<br />
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The Bacchae by Euripides .<br />
A joint National Theatre of Scotland  and Edinburgh International Festival production. Kings Theatre, Edinburgh.<br />
A new version by David Greig from a literal translation by Ian Ruffell. Directed by John Tiffany. Designed by Miriam Buether Lighting Design by Colin Grenfell. Sound Design by Chris Shutt Associate Direction/Choreography by Steven Hoggett Music composition and direction by Tim Sutton.<br />
Cast<br />
Alan Cumming as Dionysus<br />
Tony Curran as Pentheus<br />
Paola Dionisotti as Agave<br />
Ewan Hooper as Cadmus<br />
Ralph Riach as Tiresias and  the Chorus as Bacchae, female followers of Dionysus,<br />
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The production opens at The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh from 11th  August  to 18th August. It then moves onto The Theatre Royal Glasgow  (28/08/2007 - 01/09/2007) and then to Lyric Hammersmith, London (05/09/2007 - 22/09/2007).<br />
Friday 10th August  2007.<br />
© Picture Drew Farrell / Lebrecht
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  • Picture shows :  <br />
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Joyce Falconer:  reveller<br />
Alan McHugh:  oil worker<br />
Rodney Matthew:  granite cutter<br />
Elspeth Turner:  fishwife<br />
Mark Wood:  Aberdeen FC fan<br />
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Some of the key players for the Grand Finale of 'Granite' .  A National Theatre of Scotland production.  Directed by Simon Sharkey.<br />
Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.<br />
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Granite is a sweeping, epic and unprecedented outdoor theatrical event, telling the story of Aberdeen, from 1863 to 2016, in just over an hour.<br />
Performed across a huge stage and featuring a large ensemble cast, live orchestra and choir,aerial performance, dance, digital soundscape and video projection, the production takes place in the majestic quadrangle of the iconic Marischal College.<br />
Prepare to be transported from the bowels of the earth, over the North Sea and into the heavens, across continents and centuries and back again.<br />
Through snowstorms, squalls and towering waves.<br />
From Kemnay to Calabar, Torry to Gothenburg, the North Sea oil fields to Tsarist Odessa.<br />
From a night on the tiles in Union Street to a month at sea on an Atlantic schooner.<br />
Meet the men and women who built this city:<br />
The cutters and gutters and oil workers, the scientists, revellers and football fanatics.<br />
Those who left Aberdeen to find their fortunes, and those arriving here today, to chase theirs.<br />
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The Grand Finale is over three nights, the 31stMarch, 1st and 2nd April 2016<br />
Marischal College, Gallowgate, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City<br />
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for further information.<br />
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Press contacts:<br />
Adam McDougall<br />
Marketing and Press Officer<br />
T : +44 (0) 141 227 9231<br />
M:  +44 (0) 773 815 3157<br />
Adam.McDougall@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
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Emma Schad – Press Manager, emma.schad@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
T: 0141 226 9016 M: 07930 308018 <br />
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Presented by National Theatre of Scotland and Aberdeen City Council<br />
Headline Sponsor: Deloitte<br />
Supported by Aberdeen Inspired, Balmoral Group, Mackie’s of Scotland and Creative Scotland<br />
Produced in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts, ACT Aberdeen, Cit
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  • Picture shows :  Duncan Anderson as Pony William.  Knives in Hens.Picture by Drew Farrell.The National Theatre of Scotland's new production of Knives in Hens by David Harrower opens at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on Saturday 4th until Saturday 11th June, 2011 before embarking on a Scotland wide tour..Written by David Harrower.Directed by Lies Pauwels.In a pre-industrial landscape, an unsettling and threatening love triangle emerges between the young woman, the ploughman and the hated miller..As the young woman journeys from ignorance to knowledge, her liberation is found through language and her need to name things to understand their place and hers in the world..First staged at the Traverse Theatre in 1995, Knives in Hens was playwright David Harrower's first professionally produced work. It has since been staged in 25 countries around the world and is widely acknowledged as a modern Scottish classic. .Cast: Duncan Anderson (Pony William), Susan Vidler (Young Woman) and Owen Whitelaw (Gilbert Horn).Written by David Harrower, Directed by Lies Pauwels, Designer Chloe Lamford, Lighting Designer Lizzie Powell, Sound Designer Mark Melville, Assistant Director Pauline Ghyselen...Performances -.Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.04/06/2011 - 11/06/2011.Eden Court, Inverness.14/6/2011 - 16/06/2011..Dundee Rep Theatre.28/06/2011 - 30/06/2011..Lemon Tree, Aberdeen.02/07/2011..Tramway, Glasgow.05/07/2011 - 02/07/2011..Byre Theatre, St Andrews.15/07/2011 - 16/07/11.For further information press contact on this production is Press Manager Wendy Grannon 0141-227-9016...Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041...
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  • Bloody Girls by Firefly Arts (Livingston, West Lothian)<br />
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Bloody Girls is a celebration of girlhood - bloody, dirty, ugly, wild, beautiful and soulful. It explores the strength and fragility of female bonds and the unsettling consequences when it is tested to breaking point.   <br />
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Firefly Arts provides quality theatre, film and arts activity in venues across West Lothian, working with over 300 children and young people each week. Our programme embraces classic and contemporary text, new writing, devised, physical and multi-media work.<br />
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Editors please note : This image is free to use in connection of NTS and their partners,<br />
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Picture Drew Farrell<br />
Tel : 07721-735041<br />
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For Further Information please contact <br />
Adam.McDougall@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
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Adam McDougall<br />
Marketing and Press Officer<br />
National Theatre of Scotland<br />
Civic House<br />
26 Civic Street<br />
Glasgow<br />
G4 9RH<br />
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DD:      +44 (0) 141 227 9231<br />
M:                    +44 (0) 773 815 3157<br />
F:      +44 (0) 141 331 0589<br />
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Exchange 2016<br />
Life. Love. Joy. Pain. Male. Female. Past. Future.<br />
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It’s all here. In ten new shows. <br />
Created by ten of the most exciting young theatre companies <br />
from Scotland, New Zealand and the USA.<br />
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For you, the chance to enjoy their work and expand your mind, <br />
with a double bill of fast-paced new performances each evening, <br />
from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 July 2016 at Macrobert.<br />
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Supported by the National Theatre of Scotland, each group has been given access to leading creative artists, encouraged to take risks, explore new approaches and create a piece of theatre that tells us about their lives, their universe. In under an hour.<br />
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So prepare to be inspired, to think, to be provoked, to laugh, to cry, to learn. <br />
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Now in its eighth year, the National Theatre of Scotland’s vibrant international festival for 16-25-year-old theatre makers returns to Macrobert for a week-long charge of performance and creative learning. By day, the 100+ participants from the ten companies take part in a range o
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  • Picture shows : Johnny McKnight as Callum( Policeman) , Jimmy Chisolm as Simon, Greg Hemphill  as  Finlay, and Paul Riley as Fran.<br />
Rehearsal of the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production ‘An Appointment with The Wicker Man’.<br />
Picture © Drew Farrell  ( Tel : 07721-735041 )<br />
On a remote Scottish island, the Loch Parry Theatre Players mount their am-dram version of The Wicker Man. When their lead actor goes missing in mysterious circumstances, they call on the services of a television cop from the mainland to step in and save their production. <br />
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The play opens at the MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling on 18th February 2012 before touring Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness and Dunfermline.<br />
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The Wicker Man regularly tops "Best Horror Film of All Time" lists and is regarded as a true film classic. With an unforgettable sense of creeping dread, a wonderfully memorable score by Paul Giovanni, career defining performances from Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee it also has arguably the best ending in cinema history. Now, in an affectionate new adaptation, the National Theatre of Scotland gives a gallus round of applause to this immortal chronicle of strange goings-on in a wee village. 

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An Appointment with the Wicker Man features Greg Hemphill (Chewin’ the Fat) and Johnny McKnight (Little Johnny's Big Gay Wedding) alongside a line-up of comic talent. 

It is at once a deliciously wicked homage to, and a tender celebration of, a piece of cinema history that reveals for us the spooky undercurrents lurking just below the surface of Scottish village life. <br />
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The Loch Parry Players are messing with forces they can't possibly comprehend but at the end of the night, only one thing is for sure . . . someone's going to burn for this.
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Cast<br />
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Sean Biggerstaff    as       Howie and Rory<br />
Jimmy Chisolm      as       Simon<br />
Greg Hemphill        as     Finlay<br />
Johnny McKnight   as      Callum<br />
Sally Reid                 as      Marie<br />
Paul Riley	         as      Fran<br />
Ros S
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  • Picture shows :<br />
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Maureen Beattie  (dark hair), John Bett( with glasses), Billy Boyd (dark jacket), James Anthony Pearson ( wearing bow tie), Gabriel Quigley (fair hair), Billy Riddoch (with moustache).<br />
Picture Drew Farrell.<br />
Tel : 07721-735041.<br />
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NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND In partnership with THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS present, 'ENQUIRER'<br />
A new site-specific theatre production.<br />
Based on interviews with leading figures in the newspaper industry in the UK<br />
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Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany<br />
Co-edited by Andrew O’Hagan<br />
Based on interviews by Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and Ruth Wishart.<br />
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The cast includes: Maureen Beattie, John Bett, Billy Boyd, James Anthony Pearson and Gabriel Quigley<br />
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The National Theatre of Scotland’s ENQUIRER project is a theatrical investigation into the current crisis in newspaper journalism in the UK and is a collaboration between National Theatre of Scotland directors, John Tiffany and Vicky Featherstone, Andrew O’Hagan, novelist, playwright, journalist and contributing editor on the London Review of Books and three leading UK journalists, Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and Ruth Wishart.<br />
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The creative team includes: Davey Anderson as Associate Director, Lizzie Powell as Lighting Designer, Janice Borgos as Costume Designer and Lisa Bertellotti as Design Associate.<br />
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These interviews will be transcribed, edited and structured into a piece of site- specific theatre to be performed in an empty floor of a media office block in Glasgow. The promenade production will explore the recent past, present and future of newspaper journalism in the UK and beyond and will be woven through with fact, anecdote, strong opinion, passion and theatricality.<br />
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In Glasgow from 26 April to 12 May 2012 at 8pm at The Hub at Pacific Quay, Digital Media Quarter with an opening performance on Saturday 28 April at 8pm and in London, in association with the Barbican from 3 October to 20 October 2012 at a venue in East London, to be announced with a
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  • Picture shows :  Glasgow Girls Dress Rehearsal 2014 Cast<br />
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Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.<br />
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National Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Citizens Theatre, Pachamama Productions, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with Merrigong Theatre Company (Australia) present<br />
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20/2/2014 - 08/03/2014 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow<br />
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The full cast is: Callum Cuthbertson, Roanna Davidson, Karen Fishwick,  Myra McFadyen, Stephanie McGregor,  Joanne McGuinness, Amaka Okafor, Patricia Panther, Juliana Yazbeck.<br />
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Conceived for the stage and directed by Cora Bissett. Book by David Greig<br />
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Music and Lyrics by Cora Bissett, Sumati Bhardwaj (MC Soom T), Patricia Panther and John Kielty.  Set Design by Merle Hensel, Musical Direction by Hilary Brooks, Choreography by Natasha Gilmore, Lighting Design by Lizzie Powell and Sound Design by Fergus O’Hare
Presented by National Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Citizens Theatre, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd and Pachamama Productions, in association with Merrigong Theatre Company (Australia).

Seven teenagers with a cause that captured the imagination of a country.

Based on a true story, Glasgow Girls follows a group of seven teenage girls whose lives are changed forever when they arrive at school one day to be told that one of their friends - and her asylum seeking family - have been forcibly taken from their home to be deported. 

After the initial shock of this news has worn off, these feisty young women are galvanised to take a stand and to fight for the life of their friend, her family, and, ultimately for the rights of all children of asylum-seekers in Scotland. They take on the Scottish Government and the Home Office and succeed where adults and politicians have failed. Their campaign became one of the most vocal and powerful asylum campaigns to capture the imagination of the media and to inspire a community to unite behind its residents; Glasgow Girls is not just a life
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  • John Tiffany on the set of MacBeth at The Tramway
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  • NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND & TRAVERSE THEATRE<br />
EDINBURGH’S FESTIVAL FRINGE 2011<br />
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Picture shows :  Rebecca Benson as the Girl. World Premiere - The Wheel .Written by Zinnie Harris, Directed by Vicky Featherstone opens at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Thu 28 July – Sun 28 Aug,   (Traverse 1 Fringe Venue: 15 )<br />
 Picture by Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.<br />
Beatriz and her sister Rosa are happily preparing for Rosa’s wedding. Their world is turned upside down when the groom arrives, pitchfork rabble in tow, ready to occupy their farm.  A little girl stumbles into their world, lost and looking for her father. In a moment of determination Beatriz takes the girl to find him – and so begins an unimaginable journey.  Beatriz and her charge, in their need to survive, witness more than anyone ever should.<br />
For further information NTS Press contact Andrew Neilson <br />
E: andrew.neilson@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
T:+44(0)141 227 9497 M:+44(0)7912 540 139
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  • Picture Shows  John Ramage and Barbara Rafferty (both seated) recounting their story  about an incident  about The Barrowland Dance Hall to Joe McFadden, who plays the young Scottish journalist.<br />
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The Missing<br />
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Adapted by Andrew O’Hagan from his book The Missing. Directed by John Tiffany. 

 National Theatre of Scotland
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© Picture Drew Farrell Tel : 07721-735041<br />
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The Tramway, Glasgow. Thursday  15th September to October 1st October<br />
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There are all sorts of missing. The world is full of missing persons, and their numbers increase all the time. The space they occupy lies somewhere between what we know about the ways of being alive and what we hear about the ways of being dead. They wander there, unaccompanied and unknowable, like shadows of people.

In 1994, a young Scottish writer finds himself standing outside 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, feeling that the media circus engulfing this now notorious address has overlooked the most important story. Who were these murdered women and why were most of them never reported missing? 

Compelled and troubled by this experience, he begins a pilgrimage that takes him from the south of England back to the bygone Glasgow of the late 1960s and from there out to Irvine and the haunting disappearance of a young boy in his childhood. The new towns promised so much to so many. A fresh start and a different life away from the darkness and danger of the old city, all tied up with a corporation red ribbon round bath taps that had never before been used.

Reuniting director John Tiffany (Black Watch) with author Andrew O'Hagan (Be Near Me) The Missing is a series of gripping encounters that retraces and reanimates the final journeys of sons, daughters, sisters and childhood friends; the missing.

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Cast includes: Brigit Forsyth, Joe McFadden, Myra McFadyen, Brian Pettifer, Barbara Rafferty and John Ramage.

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  • Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.<br />
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Communicado Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Scotland present <br />
Calum’s Road<br />
Adapted by David Harrower, from the book by Roger Hutchinson<br />
Directed by Gerry Mulgrew<br />
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Cast: Angela Hardie, Lewis Howden, Ceit Kearney, Alasdair Macrae, Iain Macrae and Ben Winger<br />
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Touring to: Ayr, Greenock, Dumfries, Perth, Musselburgh, Arbroath, Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, Stranraer, Inverness, Ullapool, Isle of Skye and Stirling.<br />
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Calum's Road has become the stuff of modern folklore. It is the remarkable true story of one man's single-minded determination to challenge the powers-that-be. <br />
Calum MacLeod, having battled the inaction of authorities on Raasay for years, sets off alone with a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow to build a road that will connect up the island. <br />
His daughter has been forced to board at secondary school on Skye and now Calum’s not having it any more. <br />
He wants to turn the tide of neglect and indifference and keep his family - and community - together. <br />
His unpaid labour of love was to dominate the last 10 years of Calum’s life and leave behind a legacy – both practical and poetic - carved into the landscape he loved. <br />
Based on Roger Hutchinson’’s book of the same name, playwright David Harrower offers audiences the richly detailed and unhurried description of a dying way of life in Northern Raasay.<br />
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Creative team:  Gordon Davidson (Design), Sergey Jakovsky Lighting Design.  Alasdair Macrae (Music), Malcolm Shields (Assistant Direction Movement) John McGeoch (Video Design).  <br />
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Cast <br />
Calum - Iain Macrae<br />
Julia/Lexie - Ceit Kearney<br />
Young Julia - Angela Hardie<br />
Alex/Young Iain - Ben Winger<br />
Iain - Lewis Howden<br />
Performer/Musical Director - Alasdair Macrae (playing offstage most of the time)<br />
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Press contacts:<br />
Liz Smith – Publicist, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart daisy.ben@live.co.uk <br />
T:  0141 423 4373 M: 07971 417210<br />
Emma Schad – Press Manager, emma.schad@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
T: 0141 226 9016 M:
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  • NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND & TRAVERSE THEATRE.EDINBURGH'S FESTIVAL FRINGE 2011..Picture shows : Rehearsals for 'The Wheel' - director  Vicky Featherstone (l), Catherine Walsh and Ryan Fletcher. World Premiere - The Wheel .Written by Zinnie Harris, Directed by Vicky Featherstone opens at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Thu 28 July - Sun 28 Aug,   (Traverse 1 Fringe Venue: 15 ). Picture by Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041..Beatriz and her sister Rosa are happily preparing for Rosa's wedding. Their world is turned upside down when the groom arrives, pitchfork rabble in tow, ready to occupy their farm.  A little girl stumbles into their world, lost and looking for her father. In a moment of determination Beatriz takes the girl to find him - and so begins an unimaginable journey.  Beatriz and her charge, in their need to survive, witness more than anyone ever should..For further information NTS Press contact Andrew Neilson .E: andrew.neilson@nationaltheatrescotland.com.T:+44(0)141 227 9497 M:+44(0)7912 540 139.
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  • Picture shows :  John Pfumojena<br />
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Picture : Drew Farrell<br />
Tel : 07721 -735041<br />
www.drewfarrell.com<br />
Image is free to use in connection of the promotion of 'I am Thomas' the National Theatre of Scotland, Told by an Idiot and their partners. <br />
Permissions for ALL other uses needs to be sought and payment make be required.<br />
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Collaborating with award-winning poet Simon Armitage, Told by an Idiot, National Theatre of Scotland and The Lyceum, Edinburgh in association with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse present a wildly comic and provocative piece of music theatre.<br />
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Edinburgh; a cold town on the edge of civilisation, in very much the Year of Our Lord, 1696. The church has spies everywhere. Here, you keep your counsel and choose your words with care ... unless you are Thomas Aikenhead – a loud-mouthed, smart-arsed and likeable student at the university. A man in the wrong place at absolutely the wrong time ... trouble is brewing for Thomas. <br />
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (S.G Tallentyre)<br />
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A rich vein of black humour is exploded in this account of the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy. Using Told by an Idiot’s internationally celebrated theatrical invention, we glimpse into Edinburgh’s dark past to reveal this true story with universal resonance. <br />
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A riotous and unsettling drama which swings between 1696 and the present day, I Am Thomas is performed with an original live score.<br />
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Opens at The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh 23 March - 9 April 2016.<br />
Additional performances<br />
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Eden Court, Inverness<br />
12/04/2016 - 16/04/2016 <br />
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Wilton's Music Hall - London<br />
20/04/2016 - 30/04/2016 <br />
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CAST<br />
John Cobb<br />
Charlie Folorunsho<br />
Amanda Hadingue<br />
Iain Johnstone<br />
Myra McFadyen<br />
Hannah McPake<br />
Dominic Marsh<br />
John Pfumojena<br />
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CREATIVE TEAM<br />
Paul Hunter, Director<br />
Simon Armitage, Lyricist<br />
Iain Johnstone, Composer<br />
Laura Hopkins, Designer<br />
Paul Anderson, Lighting Designer<br />
Adrienne Quartly, Sound Deisgner<br />
Judith Williams, Assistant D
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  • Picture shows : Iain Macrae as Calum...Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041...Communicado Theatre Company and the National Theatre of Scotland present .Calum's Road.Adapted by David Harrower, from the book by Roger Hutchinson.Directed by Gerry Mulgrew..Cast: Angela Hardie, Lewis Howden, Ceit Kearney, Alasdair Macrae, Iain Macrae and Ben Winger..Touring to: Ayr, Greenock, Dumfries, Perth, Musselburgh, Arbroath, Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, Stranraer, Inverness, Ullapool, Isle of Skye and Stirling....Calum's Road has become the stuff of modern folklore. It is the remarkable true story of one man's single-minded determination to challenge the powers-that-be. .Calum MacLeod, having battled the inaction of authorities on Raasay for years, sets off alone with a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow to build a road that will connect up the island. .His daughter has been forced to board at secondary school on Skye and now Calum's not having it any more. .He wants to turn the tide of neglect and indifference and keep his family - and community - together. .His unpaid labour of love was to dominate the last 10 years of Calum's life and leave behind a legacy - both practical and poetic - carved into the landscape he loved. .Based on Roger Hutchinson''s book of the same name, playwright David Harrower offers audiences the richly detailed and unhurried description of a dying way of life in Northern Raasay...Creative team:  Gordon Davidson (Design), Sergey Jakovsky Lighting Design.  Alasdair Macrae (Music), Malcolm Shields (Assistant Direction Movement) John McGeoch (Video Design).  ..Cast .Calum - Iain Macrae.Julia/Lexie - Ceit Kearney.Young Julia - Angela Hardie.Alex/Young Iain - Ben Winger.Iain - Lewis Howden.Performer/Musical Director - Alasdair Macrae (playing offstage most of the time)...Press contacts:.Liz Smith - Publicist, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart daisy.ben@live.co.uk .T:  0141 423 4373 M: 07971 417210.Emma Schad - Press Manager, emma.schad@nationaltheatrescotland.c
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  • Picture Shows :   Paul Thomas Hickey (lying down) and Ewan Stewart (r) as Hakan.<br />
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The full cast is: Rebecca Benson, Paul Thomas Hickey, Lorraine M McIntosh, Angus Miller, Cristian Ortega, Martin Quinn, Chris Reilly, Stuart Ryan, Ewan Stewart.<br />
Director John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett as Associate Director.<br />
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UK premiere of Let The Right One In, presented by the National Theatre of Scotland, by arrangement with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright, in association with Dundee Rep Theatre.<br />
Performances Dundee Rep Theatre  05/06/2013 - 29/06/2013 <br />
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Tony and Olivier Award-winning director John Tiffany heads up a world-class creative team to bring the cult Swedish romantic horror film Let the Right One In to the Scottish stage. The cast features Deacon Blue and McIntoshRoss musician, Lorraine McIntosh and Dundonian actor Angus Miller, who will be making his professional theatrical debut in his home-town. <br />
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John Tiffany will be working with Steven Hoggett as Associate Director. The two previously worked together on Black Watch (currently on tour in San Francisco) and The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland and most recently on Once (winner of eight Tony awards and currently playing on Broadway and the West End).  <br />
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The production will feature John and Steven’s trademark high physicality and lyricism in the telling of this horror story and music by Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, who recently created the score for the successful ITV detective series Broadchurch.<br />
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The adaption of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and film is by Jack Thorne, one of the original creators and writers of hit Channel 4 show Skins, who in May last year, uniquely won writing BAFTAs for both The Fades and This Is England ’88.<br />
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John Ajvide Lindqvist’s original 2004 novel Let the Right One In and Tomas Alfredson’s (Director of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,Spy)
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  • World Premiere<br />
Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre (China)<br />
present DRAGON. Written by Oliver Emanuel. Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds.<br />
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Picture shows : <br />
(l-r ) Tao Yan, Zhang Kai.<br />
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Permissions for all other uses must be approved and this production.<br />
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Directed by Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison, designed by Jamie Harrison, puppet design by Jamie Harrison and Guy Bishop, music composed by Tim Phillips, lighting design by Simon Wilkinson, sound design by Mark Melville and assistant director Guo Yan.<br />
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Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland, and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre (China) present the world premiere of Dragon - a spectacular piece of theatre without words for adults, teenagers and children, marking the first co-production between the three companies. Two Chinese physical artists from Tianjin People’s Art Theatre (China) are joining the company, bringing a unique international dimension to this groundbreaking production.  There are plans for the play to be produced in China in 2014.<br />
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Dragon opens at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow from 11 October to 19 October and tours to Eden Court, Inverness from 22 to 26 October; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from 30 October to 2 November and The Quays Theatre, The Lowry, Salford on 8 and 9 November 2013 with a press performance at the Citizens Theatre on Tuesday 15 October at 7pm.<br />
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The production features leading Scottish actors and puppeteers as well as marking the professional stage debut for Scott Miller. <br />
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Cast:  Martin McCormick, Joanne McGuinness, Scott Miller, Adura Onashile, Gavin Jon Wright, <br />
Zhang Kai and Tao Yan<br />
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Press contacts:<br />
Jo Lennie – Freelance Publicist – jo.lennie@ntlworld.com M: 07708 980 918<br />
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Emma Schad - Press Manager - emma.schad@nationaltheatrescotland.com<br />
T: 0141 227 9016 M:  07930 308018
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  • Picture shows :  'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart', is a storytelling show based on the Border Ballads and begins touring pubs, howfs and other unlikely venues in a quirky, boisterous show in the Scottish Folk tradition. A National Theatre of Scotland production..Cast Madeleine Worrall ( Prudencia Hart), Andrew Clark, David McKay, Annie Grace, Aly Macrae..Created by Wils Wilson and David Greig. Directed by Wils Wilson.. For further information press contact on this production is Liz Smith 07971 417210...Picture © Drew Farrell. Tel 07721-735041.
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  • Mary Stuart  -  Picture Shows –  Siobhan Redmond as Queen Elizabeth and Catherine Cusack as Mary Stuart.<br />
Picture Drew Farrell / Lebrecht. Payment at All Times.<br />
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CAST :    Catherine Cusack, Callum Cuthbertson, Ken Drury, Robin Laing, Phil McKee, Jamie Michie, Siobhan Redmond, Ralph Riach<br />
Roy Sampson, John Stahl, Eileen Walsh<br />
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One of European theatre’s major plays, Schiller’s masterpiece hinges on a brilliantly imagined meeting between Mary Queen of Scots, focus of simmering Catholic dissent, and her cousin, Elizabeth, Queen of England, who has imprisoned her.<br />
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Written by Friedrich Schiller A new version by David Harrower from a literal translation by Patricia Benneke Directed by Vicky Featherstone Designed by Neil Warmington Lighting designed by Natasha Chivers Music composed by John Harris.<br />
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Opens at The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow 03/10/2006 - 21/10/2006 and the onto The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh  27/10/2006 - 18/11/2006
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  • Picture shows : Simone James in background with match and fire.<br />
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'365'<br />
World Premiere<br />
National Theatre of Scotland <br />
Text by David Harrower<br />
365 has been created especially for the Edinburgh International Festival by the National Theatre of Scotland's Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone and written by David Harrower, one of Scotland's leading playwrights.<br />
365 follows the lives of a group of young people who with their humour, imagination, wit and raw courage pass through the practice flat, taking their first faltering steps towards adulthood and the outside world.<br />
A Practice Flat is one of the state's mechanisms to gently introduce these children to the adult world. 365 is the story of a practice flat - a purpose-built witness to hopes, dreams, fear, opportunity and memory.<br />
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Vicky Featherstone Director?Georgia McGuinness Designer?Steven Hoggett Movement Director  ?Adrienne Quartly Sound designer?Colin Grenfell Lighting designer?Paul Buchanan Songs<br />
Playhouse  Theatre, Edinburgh.<br />
First performance Friday 22nd August until Saturday 25th August 2008.<br />
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© Picture Drew Farrell <br />
Tel : 07721-735041.
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  • Men Should Weep<br />
Written by Ena Lamont Stewart<br />
Directed by Graham McLaren <br />
Set amid the grinding poverty of Glasgow's tenements in the 1930s, Men Should Weep has long been a favourite with audiences.<br />
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Following the misfortunes of the Morrison family, Ena Lamont Stewart’s landmark play is a searing depiction of the hand to mouth poverty that working class people lived in at that time. <br />
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At the centre of the story is Maggie, the care-worn matriarch. Supported and hindered in equal measure by a network of neighbours and family - from whom it is impossible to keep any secrets - she does her very best in the worst of circumstances, always putting herself last.<br />
The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
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