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The Scandal at Mayerling ready to open this week
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet about a dysfunctional royal family, depicting shocking real events from 1889, opens for its new tour in Glasgow this week. This production was boldly created in 1978 and is now reimagined and redesigned by Scottish Ballet, in a sumptuous production that is at once both intimate and epic. This is…
Read MoreScottish Opera coming to our television screens
On Easter Sunday (17 April), the new Scottish Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, described by audiences as ‘wonderful and heartwarming’, is scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Four at 8pm. This co-production with D’Oyly Carte Opera and State Opera South Australia is directed by Stuart Maunder, artistic director at State Opera South…
Read MoreAuld Bride – a Glencairn Glass crimewriting prize runner-up
The Glencairn Glass – the world’s favourite whisky glass – has been celebrating Scottish crime writing talent over the past two years. It’s been the headline sponsor of the prestigious McIlvanney and Bloody Scotland Debut crime-writing prizes and last year, launched its first very own crime short story competition, inviting all budding crime writers to…
Read MoreTeardrops – a Glencairn Glass crimewriting prize runner-up
The world’s favourite whisky glass – The Glencairn Glass – has been celebrating Scottish crime writing talent over the past two years as headline sponsor of the prestigious McIlvanney and Bloody Scotland Debut crime-writing prizes. To support this creative collaboration, The Glencairn Glass launched its first very own crime short story competition, inviting all budding…
Read MoreThe May 2022 Scottish Field is out now
The latest issue of Scottish FIeld puts the focus on one of Scotland’s most endangered birds, the capercaillie. In our May edition, our monthly wildlife feature sees Patrick Galbraith gets up close to the capercaillie, examining why it has become under threat as a species. We also ask what price animal welfare? With the corporatisation…
Read MoreConservatoire in world top 5 for performing arts education
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is ranked one of the world’s top five destinations to study the performing arts, in prestigious global rankings published today (Wednesday 6 April). Scotland’s national conservatoire – which celebrates its 175th anniversary this year – is ranked number five for performing arts in the QS World University Rankings by Subject…
Read MoreThe Curious Incident is far more than a shaggy dog story
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a play many of my friends have talked about, but I’d never actually seen. I’d seen it advertised on visits to London, and knew actress Pearl Mackie had appeared in it before joining Peter Capaldi in his final season in Doctor Who. Aside from the…
Read MoreDiving into the archives to find stunning prints
A new exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers reveals treasures from the vaults as curator Tiffany Boyle selects prints from their archive. Running from 8 April to 26 June, Workshop includes rarely seen works, exhibition posters produced in-house and archival objects In an essay commissioned to mark Edinburgh Printmakers 40th anniversary in 2007 art critic John Calcutt…
Read MoreFirst Spring Flingers launch programme for 20th year
Artists and makers from the first Spring Fling got together to launch the programme for the 20th annual open studios weekend. The event, set up in the aftermath of the foot and mouth epidemic, now hopes to make a significant contribution in the drive to rebuild after the COVID pandemic. Spring Fling, which takes place…
Read MoreYoung Walter Scott Prize winners announced
The winners of this year’s prestigious prize for young writers of historical fiction, the Young Walter Scott Prize, have been revealed. The award has been won by Leo Wilson for his For the Love of the Sun in the 11-15 years category, and by Oliver Dhir, author of A Lost Generation, in the 16-19 years…
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