by Barry Gordon
Darren Manson: Cinema in Thurso
Mar 1 2010 in Features, Film, Highland by Barry Gordon
BARRY GORDON catches up with Darren Manson to look at the chequered history and present prospects for cinema in Thurso.
by Barry Gordon
Donald Mackenzie: Breakdance in Caithness
Mar 1 2010 in Dance & Drama, Features, Highland by Barry Gordon
BARRY GORDON recalls the glory days of the early 1980s for Donald Mackenzie and his fellow Caithness breakdancers, and catches up on where the scene is going now.
by Northings
Caithness Dialect – A Response
Oct 1 2009 in Dance & Drama, Features, Highland, Writing by Northings
In Defence of Dialect
Oct 1 2009 in Editorial, Highland by Kenny Mathieson
I BEGIN this month with an apology. In September, Northings ran a review of a reading of George Gunn’s play Fields of Barley in Thurso. I received an e-mail from John Cairns, writing on behalf of both Grey Coast Theatre and Caithness Arts, strongly objecting to what he saw as “an attack on the use of Caithness dialect”.
