Articles categorised as theatre

Clarinda

Clarinda will be shawin at St Andrews in the Square, Glesca on Monanday 4 an Tuesday 5 Februar at 7.30pm. Tickets costs £9.50 (or £8.50 less-sillert). For mair parteeclars please see as abuin.

A braw nicht, thanks tae the SLC

Hello aw, howp ye hae been makkin the maist o wit braw simmer...or the twa-thrie braw hours we hae been gettin. Michael wis sayin this wad be the year fer a bonnie simmer - but sae faur it's...

Scots Theatre

Hello aw, howp ye's daein weil. I stairtit readin David Lindsay's "Thrie Estatis" the ithir day, certaint ane tae be recommendit tae aw fowk (that's not fashed by sweiry wurds an laich...

New RLS Website Now Live

A new website about the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson is now live on the internet. With full information about RLS’s life, pictures never before seen by the public and downloadable...

Literature Working Group

The Scottish Government's literature working group has published its policy proposals. The report contains recommendations concerning literature and publising in Scots. This page collects Scottish...

Tom Fleming - voice of the Scots Gospels

Tom Fleming began acting in 1945, co-founded the Edinburgh Gateway Company in 1953, and from 1962-4 was a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He founded and directed the Royal Lyceum...

Iseabail's list of literature in Scots language

Collections of Modern Scots Fenton, James (2000) Thonner an Thon. An Ulster Scots Collection, Belfast: Ullans Press. Poetry and prose in Ulster Scots. MacCallum Neil R and Purves, David eds...

Drunk Man set to music

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Scots poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, is set to music of huge imagination and vibrancy by Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney  in a...

"A Braw Nicht Oot"

Prestonpans storyteller Tim Porteous, together with storytellers from around Scotland, is set to mark the forthcoming Scots census question with a night of storytelling in Scots followed by a play...

Rab Wilson - Tradition of Scots language

BBC Scotland has produced a range of new Scots language resources. Check them out at the BBC Learning Zone.

Scotspeak

Scotspeak was first published by the SLC’s predecessor organisation, the Scots Language Resource Centre. It was hugely popular with actors and others who wanted to know what Scots and Scottish...

Artist man and the mother woman - a new play in Doric

Written in Morna Pearson's trademark "lurid, post-modern  Doric" (The Scotsman),The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional...

Charles Barron Prize for Doric Drama

The Charles Barron Prize for Doric Drama is now up for grabs. The first prize, which is in memory of playwright Charles Barron (who sadly died in 2012), is worth £1000, with two runner-up prizes...