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We look back at the life of the boy from Dundee who dedicated himself to the pursuit of a Scotland "as good as it possibly could be".

After an 18-month closure, staff and artists at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre are raring to welcome audiences back on September 7 2021.

It would be hard to match online the thrill of Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother in a theatre. This seminal work arrived with the force of a punch, the visceral pulse of its drum-beat hitting your chest and ears, the bright lights and surging dance blinding you in a frenzy of movement. It was a work that matched its huge theme – about indoctrination and totalitarianism, about the fine lines between joy and agony – with a blast of pure energy that sent you out into the night dan...

As imagined by Brian Beacom A BIT of background here; there is as much chance of this ‘spat’ between me and Nicola Sturgeon being about border controls than there is of the Gallagher brothers singing He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother in their mum’s living room this weekend. There is even more chance of Matt Hancock saying, ‘Honestly, I was performing the internal Heimlich Manoeuvre.’ Let me explain; the First Minister’s resentment runs deeper than an Irn-Bru stain or your au...

As Succession fans await a third season, we celebrate the life and times of Brian Cox as he turns 75 with a look back on his career.

Submitting... “I enjoyed all of that, of course,” says Sievewright, “but I just felt there was something about me that didn’t quite fit in to that West End world. I wanted to get back into the Scottish scene; and In 2012, I had an audition for Cora Bissett’s Glasgow Girls, the musical about the Glasgow schoolgirls who campaigned for their asylum seeker friends to stay in the UK. Dawn Sievewright and John McLarnan “And as soon as I got into that, I just thought, this is it, this is w...

Pitlochry Festival Theatre Announce Summer Ensemble For 70th Anniversary Season The season will include Adventures with the Painted People, Jekyll and Hyde, The Wind in the Willows, A Night by the River Tay, and more!by BWW News Desk Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the Summer Ensemble for its 70th anniversary season which will take place in the picturesque grounds of the Perthshire theatre from the end of this month. Pitlochry Festival Theatres exciting 22-strong Summer Ensemble will ...

Leading Performing Arts Venues, Federation Of Scottish Theatre, Call On The Government To Review Social Distancing Guidelines Without a change to the guidance, significantly more public sector finance will be required to protect an already deeply damaged sector.by BWW News Desk Eleven of Scotlands leading performing arts venues, with the Federation of Scottish Theatre, have collectively called on the newly returned Scottish Government to urgently review the social distancing requirements requi...

Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 05.35 EDT Theatres in Scotland have called for an urgent review of Covid-19 social distancing restrictions for audiences, saying that the current two-metre rule leaves them in a perilous position. On Monday, all of Scotland is expected to move into protection level 2, which permits theatres to open with social distancing and capacity limits agreed with local authorities. But in a survey conducted by the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST), 96% of members respon...

© Supplied by Dundee Rep Theatres only exist through the relationship with their audience. Staying connected with the people who turn up in every weather to fill the seats and support productions has been key to planning successful re-openings, whenever those might be. When lockdown began, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre reached out with “Where Are You Dundee?”, a way to keep in touch with the audience through creative projects. “As a follow-up we put out a call for works that were...