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Festival directors are always going to talk up their programming choices, right?
Wanted: Rabbit Church Hill Theatre Studio, until tomorrow Alles Seen at Dance Base, ends today; Paisley Arts Centre, May 14 Mise – Story Of A Girl Seen at Church Hill Theatre Studio, run ended
Of the numerous theatre festivals which take place in Scotland, I have to declare a particular affection for the annual Imaginate Children's International Theatre Festival in Edinburgh.
Scottish, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funding for digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland's Make:IT:Happen fund.
Even though the team behind Wanted: Rabbit are from the Netherlands, this short but action-packed piece of whimsy unfolded like a Dario Fo farce for three to five-year-olds.
When a woman called Coralie turned up at Dundee Rep's box office to say the next production was about her, the company sat up and took notice.
For the last couple of years Alec Finlay has been writing himself into the landscape of Skye.
What would happen if the revolution became reduced to a series of letterwriting parties that gathered the converted together under the guidance of the sort of perma- grinning cheerleader normally the preserve of high street charity muggers?
Additional News from Scotland
A TWEET by Commons Speaker's wife Sally Bercow pointed "the finger of blame" at Tory peer Lord McAlpine during a media frenzy over allegations of child sex abuse, a judge has heard.
A GRANDMOTHER has told how she is moving to England to access a cancer drug denied her on the NHS in Scotland.
MILLIONS of pounds paid out to "shameless" Amazon by the Scottish Government should be clawed back and any future payments must be frozen to punish the internet giant for its tax avoidance, the Greens have demanded.
NADINE Dorries, the maverick Tory MP, has raised the possibility of standing on a joint Conservative-Ukip ticket at the next General Election, a prospect swiftly dismissed by her party's high command.
ONE-QUARTER of MPs believe there is an unhealthy culture of drinking in Parliament, a poll suggests.
Scotland faces significantly higher borrowing costs than the rest of the UK – even before any move to independence, new analysis suggests.
Downing Street has refused to rule out inviting Sri Lanka to a First World War commemoration service despite an outcry from human-rights organisations.
BRITAIN is to double its non-lethal military support to Syria to help the opposition withstand the onslaught from Bashar al Assad's regime and to convince him he cannot win by force.
Nick Clegg will add to David Cameron's woes today, accusing parts of the Tory party of being "obsessed" about Europe and gay marriage.
Downing Street yesterday insisted it would not adopt a Plan B on the economy, ahead of a crunch report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
