After 10 years of publication, 'Northings' (the monthly arts e-magazine for the Highlands & Islands) closed down in 2013 and is archived here. High Life Highland is pleased to enable this extensive body of work to remain accessible to the public. Please note, though, that material will not be updated or added.

Articles tagged ‘open book’

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Review by Jenny McBain

Taking Stock

20 Mar 2012 in Dance & Drama, Gaelic, Highland, Music, Reviews, Showcase, Writing

Poet Aonghas MacNeacail was among the contributors to Taking Stock

Taking Stock: The Claim of Crofting, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, 16 March 2012.

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Review by Jennie Macfie

Play Pieces: Swan Song

3 Oct 2011 in Dance & Drama, Highland, Reviews, Showcase

Garry Collins in Swan Song (photo Matt Campbell)

The Ironworks, Inverness, 1 October 2011.

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Review by Mark Fisher

Para Handy – A Voyage Around The Stories of Neil Munro

27 Sep 2011 in Dance & Drama, Highland, Reviews, Showcase

The cast of Open Books' colourful Para Handy

Empire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 22 September 2011, and touring.

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Editorial by Kenny Mathieson

A Voyage Around A Highland Icon

1 Sep 2011 in Editorial

John Bett checks out a Clyde puffer

Eden Court Theatre and Open Book take on a Highland classic.

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Review by Jennie Macfie

Open Book – Macbeth

21 Jul 2011 in Dance & Drama, Highland, Reviews

Helen Mackay and James Mackenzie

The Stables, Cromarty, 20 July 2011, and touring.

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Feature by North by North East

NxNE: Marcus Roche of Open Book

15 Jul 2011 in Aberdeen City & Shire, Argyll & the Islands, Dance & Drama, Features, Highland, Outer Hebrides, Showcase

Marcus Roche, Cameron Mowat, Ewan Donald and Michelle Gallagher

Marcus Roche is the director of Open Book’s new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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Feature by North by North East

NxNE: Open Book in Production

15 Jul 2011 in Aberdeen City & Shire, Argyll & the Islands, Dance & Drama, Features, Highland, Outer Hebrides

James Mackenzie in rehearsal for Macbeth

Kenny Mathieson investigates the process of creating a new Macbeth with the principal actors and designer Patricia Niemann.

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Feature by David Pollock

RSAMD Making Connections in the North

1 Jul 2011 in Dance & Drama, Features, Gaelic, Music, Showcase

The Sabhal Mòr Ostaig campus at Sleat on the Isle of Skye

David Pollock explores the RSAMD’s burgeoning H&I connections with the Academy’s principal, John Wallace.

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Feature by Northings

Caithness Dialect – A Response

1 Oct 2009 in Dance & Drama, Features, Highland, Writing

JOHN CAIRNS replies to Barry Gordon’s observations on Caithness dialect in George Gunn’s Fields of Barley.

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Feature by Mark Fisher

John Cairns

15 Apr 2009 in Dance & Drama, Features, Highland

MARK FISHER hears how JOHN CAIRNS hopes to kick start the stalled theatre touring circuit in the Highlands & Islands.