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• Lightening the Gloom
These columns have struck a rather pessimistic note of late, and there is a bit more of that to come below, but what better antidote to the gloom over the parlous state of arts funding than a bit of Laurel & Hardy, courtesy of the late Tom McGrath and Mull Theatre.
• Mull Theatre – Laurel and Hardy
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 26 March 2010, and touring
• Caithness Dialect – A Response
JOHN CAIRNS replies to Barry Gordon's observations on Caithness dialect in George Gunn's Fields of Barley.
• In Defence of Dialect
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”.
• Island Nights Entertainments
Pavilion, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, 21 August 2009
• Reasons To Be Cheerful
THE SUMMER may be wearing on, but there is still plenty going around the area. The Blas Festival takes pride of place this month, with Blair Douglas’s much anticipated Gaelic Mass heading a busy programme.
• The Festivals Roll On
AS DAVE SMITH’s cartoon reminds us, if it’s August it must be the Edinburgh festival extravaganza again. Kicking off right at the end of July with the Jazz Festival and taking in the full razzmatazz of the International Festival, the Fringe and the Tattoo, it will be a month of colourful mayhem amid the uncollected rubbish in the capital.