MARCUS J WILSON reports on three Highlands and Islands shows at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Dogstar Theatre’s The Tailor of Inverness, The Sorren Maclean Band, and Mull Theatre’s production of Right […]

ROBERT LIVINGSTON speaks to Founder and Director of the Moray Art Centre, RANDY KLINGER.

Robert Livingston explains why Northings cannot continue
BACK at the turn of the Millennium, I was keen to set up an online journal that would properly represent the dynamism and diversity of the arts and culture […]

Empire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 19 March 2013
COMBINING dance with digital media is often attempted but rarely succeeds as well as it does in Labyrinth of Love, the work which opened Rambert’s welcome […]

Empire Theatre. Eden Court, Inverness, 20 February 2013
AN EXCITED buzz filled the Empire Theatre, thronged with an audience which, while still predominantly female, had a healthy leavening of males by comparison […]

Robert Livingston welcomes the opportunities to be offered by the new Drama Degree in development at Inverness College
IT’S not easy making theatre in the Highlands.

EVEN though a full house in a village hall […]

Celtic Connections, Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow, 3 February 2013
SORREN Maclean spent much of his childhood in and around An Tobar, Tobermory’s renowned arts centre where his father Gordon is Artistic […]

Celtic Connections, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, 26 January 2013
THE elaborately corniced, portico’d and vaulted hall of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery soars high above row upon row of chairs.

SOLD out for […]

Celtic Connections, City Halls and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, 19 January 2013
AT Sabhal Mòr Ostaig’s birthday party the honour of playing the first notes was given to a native of that well-known […]

Celtic Connections, Glasgow Art Club, 23  January 2013
FIRST on stage in the vaulted hall at the Glasgow Art Club was folk singer Ian Smith, originally from Kilmarnock but now resident in Donegal.

One […]

Ross-shire-based Zenwing Puppets may have started small, but with the launch of Creativity in Care this month their work takes an exciting new direction. Robert Livingston talked to Karrie Marshall about Zenwing’s […]

Strathpeffer Pavilion, 14 January 2013
ASKED to produce a touring family show – but not a panto –  on a limited budget,  Wildbird’s Chris Lee has come up with an interesting production which is part film, part […]

The Stables and other venues, Cromarty, 30 November – 2 December 2012
THE FIRST weekend in December starts with mulled wine in a boat store and ends with curry and malt whisky in Resolis.

IN BETWEEN there are […]

At a recent meeting of members of the Highlands and Islands Theatre Network, a colleague from the Edinburgh-based company Stellar Quines gave a fascinating presentation on the company’s experiments with live […]

OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 25 November 2012
NO ROOM for a wren in the OneTouch tonight – every seat is full of people who have travelled from far and near to listen to this unassuming woman on […]

Empire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 30 October 2012
FIREFLIES in the rainforest, water flowing, birdsong, and a girl (Julia Robert Pares) sleeping on the leaf-strewn floor; the Jasmin Vardimon Company’s […]

Ardross Community Hall, 19 October 2012
A LENGTH of white material scattered with pebbles and more fabric scrunched into the shape of a torc form the performance site for the four dancers of Edinburgh-based […]

Phipps Hall, Beauly, 17 October 2012
AS THE capacity audience files in, an excited buzz of conversation grows louder and louder; it sounds like the start of a rather good party.

THIS IS not entirely […]

We are binary creatures, cursed by our bilateral symmetry to think in terms of pairings and oppositions: black and white, right and wrong, formal and informal, incomer and native. We are (no pun intended) […]