Peer Gynt – on Tour

Dundee Rep and National Theatre of Scotland are taking the 5 star award winning Peer Gynt to the Barbican, opening on the 30th April.    Then it is coming back to Scotland for a short tour.     We are planning to see it again – in Glasgow this time.
But the Barbican is a huge stage, and given [...]

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CATS Awards

The CATS awards will soon be upon us, with a shortlist announced soon – on May 16th.    (They have a spectacularly horrible website with sideways scrolling required – yuck! -  but now fixed for IE users like me – thanks Mark!)
But I wonder what they will choose.    And I also wonder if blogs covering theatre [...]

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Be Near Me – Perth Theatre

Be Near Me, a  joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland and the Donmar Warehouse reached Perth last week.
Ian McDiarmid adapted this from Andrew O’ Hagan’s book, and he also starred in this disturbing piece.     The story, set in a sectarian west coast community is about Father David Anderton, a very English, Catholic priest, [...]

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Farming and Stones

The Blog has been neglected recently because I have been on a tractor for days and days and days.      Farm spring work.  
Ploughing, power harrowing, spreading fertilizer, lifting stones and rolling.      A neighbour comes in with his seeder to sow barley and oats.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
We have had quite a crop of stones this year – all this off [...]

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Fresh Air for Babies

My siblings and I were put outside as  babies  in the pram to sleep, and we put our own children outside likewise, well wrapped up.     They would wake up with rosy cheeks from the fresh air and often lie for ages looking up at tree branches and leaves moving in the breeze.      Don’t people do [...]

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Costa: 7 out of 10 – who are they kidding?

There is a sign currently on display at Costa coffee shops saying that 7 out of 10 Coffee Lovers Prefer Costa.        Well, not me.   I am one of the 3 in 10 who go out of my way to avoid it, because I just don’t like their coffee.    I can live with that.
But there are situations when [...]

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