Tuesday, January 31, 2006
National Theatre of Scotland online
The new National Theatre of Scotland is due to upgrade its website today. It will carry more detail about its inaugural programme, which starts on February 21 with a series of ten performances called Home that take place up and down the country. Follow the links on my Scottish theatre links website: Scottish theatre companies N
Monday, January 30, 2006
Pitlochry, Elaine C Smith and Brian Rix
It's always remarkable that Pitlochry, a small and picturesque town, can support a large and popular theatre that packs them in through the summer months.
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Companies/scottish-theatresP.html
and
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Reviews/pitlochry-theatre.html
So it seems more remarkable still that the same town is now supporting Winter Words, a weekend literary festival in the same location in the midst of January. I was there on Saturday to chair a session with well known lord, Brian Rix, and well known dame, Elaine C Smith, and the theatre was buzzing with life.
Rix and Smith were in fine anecdotal form both on and off stage. Rix in particualar has changed career so many times in his 82 years - actor, miner, farceur, theatre manager, Mencap president, writer, arts council drama panel chair, house of lords, etc etc - that it was like interviewing several people at once. Smith with her acting, directing, writing and campaigning isn't far behind.
Some chairing sessions are about trying to get the speakers to talk - this one was about trying to get them to stop. I only just wrapped up the event in time.
Best conversation over dinner was about actors they'd worked with who'd been pissed on stage.
New on the website today is a link to an article in Scotland on Sunday about a new gallery in Leith called the Corn Exchange.
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Mark
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Companies/scottish-theatresP.html
and
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Reviews/pitlochry-theatre.html
So it seems more remarkable still that the same town is now supporting Winter Words, a weekend literary festival in the same location in the midst of January. I was there on Saturday to chair a session with well known lord, Brian Rix, and well known dame, Elaine C Smith, and the theatre was buzzing with life.
Rix and Smith were in fine anecdotal form both on and off stage. Rix in particualar has changed career so many times in his 82 years - actor, miner, farceur, theatre manager, Mencap president, writer, arts council drama panel chair, house of lords, etc etc - that it was like interviewing several people at once. Smith with her acting, directing, writing and campaigning isn't far behind.
Some chairing sessions are about trying to get the speakers to talk - this one was about trying to get them to stop. I only just wrapped up the event in time.
Best conversation over dinner was about actors they'd worked with who'd been pissed on stage.
New on the website today is a link to an article in Scotland on Sunday about a new gallery in Leith called the Corn Exchange.
http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Mark
Saturday, January 28, 2006
First things first
The bulk of my journalistic work as well as comprehensive links to Scottish theatre websites is archived at my website: Mark Fisher's Scottish Theatre Links: http://www.mark-fisher.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
I'll be using this blog to write about the writing - if that doesn't turn out to be too self-referential for its own good.
Mark
I'll be using this blog to write about the writing - if that doesn't turn out to be too self-referential for its own good.
Mark
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