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In Conversation With Eleanor Tindall

Reading Time: 2 minutesEleanor Tindall discusses her play Tender, which explores modern relationships and identity through characters Ivy and Ash. The play incorporates surreal elements and reflects on themes of emotional separation. Tindall emphasizes the importance of collaboration in her creative process, noting how the director and team enriched her original vision.

Unlocking Creativity Across Scotland: New report highlights Traverse’s Class Act’s transformative impact

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Traverse Theatre has released a report highlighting the success of Class Act on Tour, which engaged over 400 young people in creative education across Scotland. The initiative included 257 workshops, leading to 149 original works and significant increases in student confidence about creative writing and theatre knowledge. The program's legacy is anchored by The Jotter, a resource library for ongoing arts education.

In Conversation with: Iona Lee, Acolyte

Reading Time: 3 minutesAcolyte is an Edinburgh-based poetic and psychedelic ensemble, founded in 2018. Described by The Skinny as a ‘supergroup’, Acolyte is made up of bassist Ruairidh Morrison (The Dark Jokes, The Microband), with synth and backing vocals from Gloria Black (Maranta), percussionist Daniel Hill and fronted by award-winning poet and spoken-word artist, Iona Lee. Acolyte fuse soundscapes with storytelling, hypnotic loops, harmonic depth and existential motifs to create truly unique performances and a genre-defying sound. 

In Conversation with: Sara Farrington

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a flash of modern warfare, a mother loses her child, igniting a powerful one-woman journey through every iconic character in The Trojan Women. This reimagining of the world’s first anti-war play, originally staged in Athens in 415 BC as Euripides' protest against the Peloponnesian War, combines intense drama with uplifting and comedic physical theatre at its best. With world politics as they currently stand, this 2000 year old story reflects a world all too familiar!