Scottish Ensemble – Green

Approaching the very dead of winter, it was refreshing to be reminded of the coming spring, and green shoots.   This was a performance of minimilist music, with a new piece, called Green, from Scottish composer (now living in the USA) Thea Musgrave.   And in a change of venue, this was in St Ninian’s Cathedral in [...]

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Arts Round-Up 2008

It has been another busy year in the arts:
25 plays seen – Jo Clifford’s touring version of Great Expectations from Prime productions impressed, as did John Byrne’s fouth part in his Slab Boys ‘trilogy’ Nova Scotia at the Traverse.     At Dundee Rep, Romeo and Juliet, Les Parents Terribles,  and their wonderful Christmas show Beauty and the [...]

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Beauty and the Beast – Dundee Rep

I confess to wondering that with the Dundee Rep ‘A’  Team busy wowing audiences across Scotland with their award-winning show Sunshine on Leith, that the ‘B’ Team left at home might be struggling in terms of resources to get on a substantial Christmas show back at the Rep.
I need not have worried:   Beauty and the [...]

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Letter Boxes – Poor Posties.

Now and again, I find myself on a delivery round for one cause or another.   I am just back from such a round with literally bloody knuckles from difficult letterboxes. 
Now I know, living in the Perthshire countryside, that letterboxes can be a reliable source of drafts, and I understand why people fit brushes or sprung [...]

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