Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland announced
The 2023 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland has been awarded to author Rodge Glass. The £1,500 prize, established in 2021 by the family of the late BBC Scotland journalist and Wigtown Festival Company chair Anne Brown, celebrates the best literary essay by a Scottish writer. Best-known for his biography of Alasdair Gray, Glass’s essay…
Read MoreLanark Men’s Shed moving to new premises within grounds of World Heritage site
Lanark Men’s Shed has announced it is moving to new premises within the grounds of the New Lanark World Heritage site. The move follows a period of uncertainty after the local community group had to move from its previous base. The men’s shed is run by volunteers to encourage older men to come together to…
Read MoreFringe Review: Ringer
Jeremy Welch reviews Ringer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. RINGER tells the tale of a callous, dissolute actor called Fabian Bevan, played by Fabian Bevan. Fabian Bevan as the character is an actor that has, and continues to have, endless problems in his life, all self-inflicted; his is the life of the uncontrolled Hollywood star.…
Read MoreNational Theatre unveils Dracula and Mina
THE National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) has today unveiled the first look at its production of Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning. The play was written by Morna Pearson and shifts Bram Stoker’s narrative to the North-East. The NTS has assembled an all-female and non-binary cast for the production, which will tour Scotland, Liverpool, and Coventry in September…
Read MoreFringe review: My Neighbours Are Kind Of Weird
When entering a venue for an hour-long self-proclaimed witty and wry look at millennial culture, with a side salad of hypocrisy and narcissism, one arrives with a heavy heart. One was wrong though. This was a thoroughly enjoyable comedic excursion that fused universally good performances from all five young actors, and some admirably taut script-writing…
Read MoreFringe review: Salty Irina
Jeremy Welch reviews Salty Irina at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play is set in some non-defined Northern European city where there have been a series of murders, all the murdered are foreigners, all recent immigrants. Irina, played by Yasemin Ozdemir, arrives at her apartment and the steps are steeped in blood, obviously the result…
Read MoreFringe Review: Six Chick Flicks…
Richard Bath reviews Six Chick Flicks…Or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches While Writing a Notebook on the Titanic. The premise of this parody is that two wisecracking sassy young women take the piss out of six iconic chick flicks: Titanic, Legally Blonde, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Beaches and The Notebook.…
Read MoreExplore September’s issue of Scottish Field
Your copy of Scottish Field is now available to buy, both in shops and online, with the very best luxury lifestyle features, news, interiors, properties, antiques, motoring, gardens, wildlife, field sports, whisky, and more. This is the issue each year where we focus in on Autumn Breaks around the country and this year’s thread has been the film…
Read MoreGordonstoun stages new-look Macbeth 60 years after King Charles took leading role
Pupils from King Charles’ former school will stage a performance of Macbeth 57 years after Charles played the leading role. Event goers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be treated to a rock adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, showing from 5-12 August. Pupils at Gordonstoun will bring the story to the…
Read MoreBloody Scotland: Kate Foster on The Maiden
Each week Scottish Field will be talking to one of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize shortlist authors about their novels and feature an extract from the book. This week we hear from Kate Foster from Edinburgh, about her novel The Maiden (Mantle). Set in the 17th century, it is a reimagining of true historical events…
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