Culture
Scottish Field visits Scottish Ballet’s Snow Queen
Scotland’s national dance company, Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary is currently being marked by CEO/artistic director Christopher Hampson’s The Snow Queen. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved tale, which was also the basis for Disney’s hit film Frozen, this glittering new production opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre on Saturday 7 December (until December 29), before touring…
Read MoreWe Will Rock You – a killer (queen) of a musical
Successful band? Check. Hit after hit after hit? Check. Big fan base? Check. Straight away, you have the formula for a musical. What did I know about We Will Rock You before I went to see it? Well. Not much. It’s based around the music of Queen. The story was by Ben Elton. And… erm……
Read MoreWINNERS OF SCOTS TRAD MUSIC AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Kilts swinging, fiddles blazing and the skirl of the pipes booming loudly – there’s nothing that sets the heart alight quite like an evening of traditional Scottish music. Celebrating the best trad talent in the country was the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, and in between some exceptional toe-tapping performances, the 2019 winners…
Read MoreThe Steamie returns in just a couple of weeks
Tony Roper’s play The Steamie, which Scotland has taken to its heart, is coming to The Hydro with a bigger cast, bigger sets and more songs and music than ever before. It will run from 27-31 December, The Steamie is a theatre classic; an ode to the hard-working women of the 1950s and to a…
Read MoreNew work by Peter Howson unveiled in Glasgow
A new artwork by artist Peter Howson OBE has been unveiled at St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. The Massacre of Srebrenica, on loan to Glasgow Museums for an initial three year period, is a large-scale painting portraying the religious and ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s and depicts the…
Read MoreOriginal Robert the Bruce document goes on show
One of Aberdeen’s most iconic documents will celebrate its 700th anniversary tomorrow (Tuesday 10 December). The Stocket Charter – an original document signed by King Robert the Bruce will go on show at a free talk tomorrow at the Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill, Aberdeen at 7.30pm to mark the 700th anniversary of its signing. Many Aberdonians…
Read MoreJack and the Beanstalk will raise plenty of smiles
In recent years, Glasgow’s King’s Theatre has had its panto stars, around whom it bases its show each year. The current dynamic duo are Elaine C Smith and Johnny Mac, who have been reigning supreme for three years now, and follow up their 2017 succes Sleeping Beauty, and 2018’s Aladdin, with Jack and the Beanstalk.…
Read MoreThe Titanic and the ruined Fife palace
The fate of Leslie House in Fife, once the seat of the Earls of Rothes, is in the balance. The A-listed house, which was known as the Palace of Rothes, stands burntout and bereft. In its heyday it resembled Holyrood Palace and was described by Daniel Defoe as ‘the glory of the whole province of…
Read MoreThree is the magic number for Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre Panto
He’s back! And judging by the rapturous welcome given to Andy Gray by the audience at the annual Edinburgh institution that is the King’s Theatre panto, we’re all delighted that he has returned from a stint of ‘no bein’ well’. This year’s King’s Theatre pantomime is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Well I say that,…
Read MoreScotland’s fight with parasites in new exhibition
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland has opened today, exploring Scotland’s role in the fight to eliminate tropical diseases by tackling the parasites that cause them. Parasites: Battle for Survival will run from Thursday, 6 December, to Sunday 19 April 2020, and will examine five deadly diseases, which together affect 1 in…
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