Political
List of Engaged Theatre
BLOOD RED LINESBlood Red Lines: Verbatim theatre as a form of restorative justice by Maria HASSAN for Shared Future News, 1 March 2019 A Friday night at the Brian ... Read More
Arts For Labour & Cultural DemocracyAt last years World Transformed (2016) Alan Tomkins - once Senior Cultural Policy advisor to Livingstone’s radical GLC - urged attenders to seize the moment, ... Read More
Manifesto on Artists' Rights by Tania BrugueaArt is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right. Art is a way of building thought, of being ... Read More
Trouble SleepingSynopsis In this, Theatre Workshop's first full-length film, the company examine the everyday experience of asylum seekers in Scotland. Based primarily in Edinburgh, it follows the ... Read More
The Happy Lands TrailerInspired by true stories from local families in Fife, the Happy Lands follows the journey of law-abiding citizens who become law-breakers in a heroic battle ... Read More
Babylon Burning (Another Lovely War)The recent war on terror has become a key theme for politically-engaged theatre companies. BABYLON BURNING narrates the origins and consequences of the war in ... Read More
Black Sun Over Genoa"There was a sense, on the eve of the giant Make Poverty History March and the G8 summit in Gleneagles, that this latest piece by ... Read More
Consider Rather The RiverThis play was performed on the banks of the Water of Leith and combines the realities of life in 2003 and the history of the ... Read More
Oh What A Lovely War!JOAN LITTLEWOOD’S Musical Entertainment Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop and Charles Chilton Research by Gerry Raffles after treatments by Ted ... Read More
Jimmy C! - a ballad of James ConnollyThe life and death of the revolutionary figure James Connolly provides the story for this play. Rather than concentrate solely on the macro-politics of the ... Read More
Stockaree!This community play focuses on the area of Stockbridge, the district of Edinburgh where Theatre Workshop's Hamilton Place theatre is situated. It looks at the ... Read More
The Lost Harp / Y Delyn GoledigWritten by local playwright Peter Cox, it was set at the start of the nineteenth century , a time of profound change - with deep ... Read More
The Bodhran Makers"That's where heaven is. Where the sound ends and the silence begins". Anyone whose heard the sound of the Irish Bodhran will know it seems ... Read More
Go See Fanny Deakin"its a powerful tale, powerfully told in this promenade production, directed by Robert Rae. Designer James Helps creates the farm, the terraced homes, the pit ... Read More
The Hedgey Road Plays - "Ma Hat Ma Coat And The Ghandi Girls" -BelfastThe Marillac Theatre Company was created by Fedelma McVeigh to showcase the talented young women of the drama department of St.Lousie's Comprehensive College, Falls Road, ... Read More