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THE STAGE: 18 November 2009 Ramshorn Theatre under threat
CITY LIFE: 30 October 2009 Be Near Me nominated for three Manchester Evening News Awards
THEATRE SCOTLAND: 29 October 2009 Arches to close Jan-Feb for train works
THE STAGE 13 October 2009 Scottish Opera buys land next door to expand theatre
AYRSHIRE POST 3 July 2009 Borderline shuts up shop
THE SCOTSMAN 25 June 2009 Plan to revive Leith Theatre
THE STAGE 19 May 2009 Brian Cox rumoured to be working with NTS in 2010
![]() Johnny McKnight as the Dame in the MacRobert's Sleeping Beauty 2009 |
25 November 2009 The Guardian
A MacRobert Arts Centre and Random Accomplice preview
IF you're planning on seeing Sleeping Beauty at Stirling's MacRobert this season – and all the omens suggest you should – don't set too much store by the advertised running time. Last year's festive offering, Mother Goose, lasted anything between two hours and two hours 40 minutes depending on how carried away writer and star Johnny McKnight became during any given performance.
1 November 2009 Scotland on Sunday
Feature about JM Barrie and Peter Pan.
PETER Pan might be the boy who wouldn't grow up, but he has no trouble proliferating. As we approach the 150th anniversary of the birth of JM Barrie, our appetite for the Kirriemuir writer's most famous creation appears to be insatiable. The boy from Neverland is everywhere.
![]() Duncan McLean leads the Lone Star Swing Band in Long Gone Lonesome Pic: Rebecca Marr |
21 October 2009 The Guardian
By Duncan McLean. A National Theatre of Scotland review.
EVER since it started in 2006, Vicky Featherstone's National Theatre of Scotland has sought to redefine theatre. The company launched with a string of site-specific events in Aberdeen flats and Stornoway shops – and is now staging a show that is more country-and-western hoolie than conventional play. On an extensive Highland tour, Duncan McLean's Long Gone Lonesome is a curious hybrid of music and theatre that recalls the ceilidh spirit of John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil.
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