Laura Walker: 'We're ... at this really exciting stage where we're about to really change up our model for how we make work' Vivid Roots Collective's CEO and creative director Laura Walker talks about stage productions past and future, Highland theatre and festival Roots 24. Picture: Alexander Williamson Questions by Margaret Chrystall QUESTION 1 Looking … Continue reading INTERVIEW
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Roots 24 returns to Inverness with four days of theatre festival events Last year's festival expands with panels, workshops and performances. Roots Theatre Festival 2024 October 16-19 by Margaret Chrystall The Roots festival is back and this year the second theatre festival based in the Highlands is a four-day programme of digital and in-person events … Continue reading PREVIEW
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The latest Chris to fight the world Sunset Song written by Morna Young after Lewis Grassic Gibbon Dundee Rep Theatre and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Empire Theatre, Eden Court | Thursday, May 16 ★★★ WITH costumes, music, movement, backdrop and set, this version of Sunset Song may blur the fact Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s story … Continue reading REVIEW
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How not to lose the world ... James V: Katherine by Rona Munro | RAW Material and Capital Theatres | Friday, May 10 | OneTouch, Eden Court, Inverness ★★★★★ It was great to be able to get one of the last tickets left for the latest part of Rona Munro’s James plays series – the … Continue reading THEATRE
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This triumph from Vivid Roots Collective sets a high bar for the new generation eager to create their own Highland theatre. Now – after some years of research, development, rehearsals and evolution as the project progressed – writer and now playwright Annie MacDonald’s first stage play has blossomed - a very Highland story.
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New play challenge for Annie MacDonald MAY 2 | Eden Court, Inverness Playwright Annie MacDonald (seated) with producer Laura Valerie Walker. Picture: Alex Williamson THERE should be almost no-one better at describing what is at the core of new play The Wound, The Rag And The In-between than Annie MacDonald, as cast and crew hit … Continue reading INTERVIEW
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On a stage near you, Highland theatre deserves an audience ... New playwright Annie MacDonald (second left), first rehearsal for The Wound, The Rag And The Inbetween. Picture: Alex Williamson IT’S an exciting thought that over at Eden Court theatre in Inverness right now a new play is being rehearsed with a new Highland playwright … Continue reading THEATRE
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