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Another nomination for Martin O’Connor! Huge cong Another nomination for Martin O’Connor!

Huge congratulations to Martin, who has been nominated for Best Scottish Theatre Writer 2026 at the Scottish Theatre Awards!

It's been quite a year for Martin. His acclaimed solo show Through the Shortbread Tin, produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, has already won Scots Stage Production o the Year at the Scots Language Awards.

Witty, provocative and wonderfully inventive, Martin's writing challenges Scotland's myths, celebrates its languages and asks searching questions about national identity, culture and belonging.

We're proud to publish Through the Shortbread Tin at Salamander Street and would love to see Martin's outstanding work recognised once again.

Please give Martin your vote!

Vote via the Scottish Theatre Awards website. 

#MartinOConnor #ThroughTheShortbreadTin #ScottishTheatreAwards #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScottishTheatre #ScottishPlaywrights #ScotsLanguage #NewWriting #SoloShow #SalamanderStreet
25 years on, the story of The Strokes’ extraordina 25 years on, the story of The Strokes’ extraordinary beginnings is still making headlines.

A great new interview in MusicRadar sees legendary producer Gordon Raphael reflecting on the early days of The Strokes, the making of their groundbreaking debut album Is This It, and the extraordinary moment when a band and producer captured a sound that would help redefine guitar music.

For the full story, Gordon's hugely entertaining memoir The World Is Going To Love This: Up From the Basement with The Strokes takes readers behind the mixing desk and into the studios, clubs and creative chaos of the New York music scene.

An essential read for anyone who loves The Strokes, music production and the stories behind the records.

Read the MusicRadar interview and discover Gordon's memoir, The World Is Going To Love This, published by Wordville.

#GordonRaphael #TheStrokes #IsThisIt #TheWorldIsGoingToLoveThis #MusicRadar #Wordville #MusicMemoir #IndieRock #MusicProduction #MusicBooks
Small town. Big trouble. And absolutely no idea wh Small town. Big trouble. And absolutely no idea what happens next.

We're buzzing to announce the forthcoming publication of Little Town Blue by Red Biscuit — a wildly funny, fast-paced and gloriously chaotic new play that's heading to London's Pleasance Theatre this November.

Described by The Review Hub as “unfailingly hilarious”, Little Town Blue promises outrageous characters, sharp comedy and plenty of unexpected twists.

Pre-orders are now open on the Salamander Street website, so get your copy ordered ahead of publication.

And if you're in London this November, get along to see the show.

#LittleTownBlue #RedBiscuit #SalamanderStreet #PleasanceTheatre #NewWriting #ComedyTheatre #LondonTheatre #ContemporaryTheatre #NewPlays
Another brilliant nomination for Kari Hall! Big c Another brilliant nomination for Kari Hall!

Big congratulations to Kari, who has been nominated for Best Scottish Theatre Writer 2026 at the Scottish Theatre Awards!

Kari's powerful play hame. teeth. CLUB has made such an impact this year, from its Edinburgh Fringe run to its upcoming London performances at Theatre503.

Rooted in working-class Scottish life, the play tackles consent, accountability, friendship and the experiences of young women with a distinctive voice and fearless honesty.

We're proud to publish Kari's work at Salamander Street and would love to see them recognised for their extraordinary writing.

Voting is open — please show Kari your support at Scottish Theatre Awards https://scottishtheatreawards.co.uk/

Voting ends 31st October. 

#KariHall #ScottishTheatreAwards #HameTeethClub #ScottishTheatre #ScottishPlaywrights #NewWriting #WomenInTheatre #WorkingClassTheatre #Theatre503 #SalamanderStreet
“Well, ma name is The Loch Ness ‘Monster’… but I p “Well, ma name is The Loch Ness ‘Monster’… but I prefer Nessie.”

One of eight plays in QUEER PLAYS, VOLUME ONE, Hannah McGregor's NESS is a gloriously strange encounter between Em, a young non-binary person, and Nessie—an ancient being with excellent timing, sharp patter and plenty to say.

Blending a queer coming-of-age story, Scottish myth, Gaelic, grief, humour and monster folklore, NESS asks what it means to be seen, named and recognised... especially when the world keeps trying to tell you what you are.

Originally presented at an A Play, A Pie and A Pint production at Òran Mór, NESS now appears in QUEER PLAYS, VOLUME ONE, our anthology of Scottish LGBTQ+ drama.

CAST: 3

#QueerPlays #Ness #HannahMcGregor #ScottishTheatre #LGBTQTheatre #QueerTheatre #ScottishLGBTQ #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #Gaelic #LochNess #DramaStudents #TheatreTeachers #SalamanderStreet
We are very sorry to hear of the death of Adam Len We are very sorry to hear of the death of Adam Lenson.

Adam was a much-loved theatre director, theatre-maker and passionate advocate for musical theatre. His work as a director, dramaturg and writer helped open up conversations about what musicals can be, why they matter, and how they speak to us.

We were proud to publish his book Breaking Into Song: Why You Shouldn’t Hate Musicals, a generous, thoughtful and persuasive celebration of the form he loved.

Sending lots of love to Adam’s family, friends, collaborators and the many artists and audiences whose lives were touched by his work.
Happy 18th birthday to Strange Town. We’ve loved Happy 18th birthday to Strange Town.

We’ve loved working with this brilliant Edinburgh theatre company since 2021, and are proud to have published four of their original plays: Love Bites by Sam Siggs, HER by Jennifer Adam, Balisong by Jennifer Adam and Storm Lantern by Duncan Kidd.

Strange Town’s work with young people, writers and theatre-makers is full of energy, ambition and heart — championing new voices, telling urgent stories, and creating opportunities for the next generation of performers and creatives.

Here’s to 18 years of Strange Town — and to everything still to come. Lots of love to Steve and the whole crew. 

#StrangeTown #HappyBirthdayStrangeTown #YouthTheatre #ScottishTheatre #EdinburghTheatre #NewWriting #YoungPerformers #TheatreForYoungPeople #Playwriting #SalamanderStreet
Listen up — Kari Hall joins the Putting It Togethe Listen up — Kari Hall joins the Putting It Together podcast to talk all things hame. teeth. CLUB.

Kari chats about the journey of the play from Edinburgh Fringe to transfer, the world of the Dalkeith Miners Club, writing working-class Scottish stories, and the questions of consent, accountability and community at the heart of the piece.

A great listen for anyone who caught the show, followed its Fringe success, or wants to hear more about the making of one of this year’s most talked-about new Scottish plays.

Find Putting It Together on Spotify and listen now.

#hameTeethClub #KariHall #PuttingItTogetherPodcast #Spotify #SalamanderStreet #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #EdinburghFringe #TheatrePodcast #WorkingClassStories #WomenInTheatre
What a beautiful evening last night at the Univers What a beautiful evening last night at the University of Glasgow for the official launch of Queer Plays, Volume One.

A huge thank you to Katherine Mendelsohn for chairing such a passionate and important discussion, and to the University of Glasgow for hosting the event.

It was a real privilege to hear from playwrights Jo Clifford, Christopher Deans, John Binnie, Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh and Ian Brown, about the history of their plays within the anthology. And to meet Hannah McGregor too. 

Thank you to JD and the Scottish Society of Playwrights for the inspiration behind this great book and their support in helping bring it into the world.

Queer Plays, Volume One is available now from Salamander Street and all booksellers. 
#QueerPlays #ScottishTheatre #LGBTQDrama #QueerTheatre #SalamanderStreet #ScottishSocietyOfPlaywrights #UniversityOfGlasgow #NewWriting #Playwriting #TheatreBooks @uofglasgow
Join London Drama Book Club for an online session Join London Drama Book Club for an online session on Buckled by Helen Jeffery.

On Sunday 1 November, 5–6pm, Helen will lead an hour of shared reading and discussion, exploring four or five scenes from the play and opening up conversation around its key themes: addiction, sobriety, mental health, family, friendship and recovery.

Helen Jeffery's 'Buckled' asks how we navigate sobriety in a world that often seems to revolve around drink. The session will also offer the chance to hear from Helen about taking the play from commission to publication. 

Online via Zoom
Sunday 1 November, 5–6pm
Book via London Drama / Ticket Tailor.

#Buckled #HelenJeffery #LondonDrama #LondonDramaBookClub #SalamanderStreet #DramaTeachers #PlayReading #ContemporaryDrama #NewWriting #TheatreEducation #DramaEducation #Sobriety #Recovery #MentalHealthAwareness
Happy World Teachers’ Day to the drama teachers, t Happy World Teachers’ Day to the drama teachers, teaching artists and youth theatre leaders who keep young people thinking, questioning, imagining and creating.

At Salamander Street, we’re constantly inspired by the teachers who put plays into the hands of students — not just to study them, but to speak them aloud, explore them together and discover what theatre can do.

Thank you for championing young performers, encouraging bold choices and keeping drama alive in classrooms, rehearsal rooms and school halls everywhere.

#WorldTeachersDay #DramaTeachers #SalamanderStreet #DramaEducation #SchoolDrama #YouthTheatre #TheatreEducation #GCSEDrama #ALevelDrama
London… hame. teeth. CLUB is coming for you. Af London... hame. teeth. CLUB is coming for you.

After a hugely successful Fringe run, Kari Hall’s unflinching solo show comes to Theatre503 from 19–21 November.

Meet Morgan Shields: working-class, Dalkeith-born, sharp-tongued, night-out ready — and trying to hold herself together in a world that keeps asking young women to laugh off the unacceptable.

A bold new play about class, friendship, consent, survival and the moment the party stops being funny.

Book now via Theatre503.
#hameTeethCLUB #KariHall #Theatre503 #LondonTheatre #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #SoloShow #WorkingClassTheatre #WomenInTheatre #ContemporaryDrama #Theatre #SalamanderStreet
WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR comes to Findhorn Bay Fest WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR comes to Findhorn Bay Festival.

Alan Bissett’s warm, witty and imaginative play brings together two giants of Scottish culture: Billy Connolly and Alasdair Gray.

A playful meeting of art, comedy, politics, Glasgow, class and creative friendship, WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR asks what might happen when two extraordinary minds sit down together — and spark off each other.

Catch it at the James Milne Institute, Findhorn, from 26–27 September, as part of Findhorn Bay Festival.

Originally commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive and Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Tickets from £11.

#WhenBillyMetAlasdair #AlanBissett #AlasdairGray #BillyConnolly #FindhornBayFestival #AlasdairGrayArchive #GlasgowInternationalComedyFestival #ScottishTheatre #ScottishWriting #Glasgow #NewWriting #SalamanderStreet
Balisong by Jennifer Adam comes to the Traverse Th Balisong by Jennifer Adam comes to the Traverse Theatre this week, presented by Strange Town.

Written for young people, Balisong asks urgent questions about responsibility, friendship and active citizenship when young people become aware of a pupil carrying a knife. At the centre is Finlay Richards: an average 15-year-old boy who just wants to be seen.

A previous production toured schools in every local authority in Scotland, and this new production is at the Traverse for two public performances only:

Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September, 7pm
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Book via the Traverse Theatre.

#Balisong #JenniferAdam #StrangeTown #TraverseTheatre #SalamanderStreet #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #TheatreForSchools #DramaTeachers #YouthTheatre #ActiveCitizenship #EdinburghTheatre
PUBLISHED TODAY One day can divide a life into be PUBLISHED TODAY

One day can divide a life into before and after.

On 24 February 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed millions of lives.

In 24 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes, Mark Wheeller brings together real voices from Ukraine and Lichfield to tell some of those stories: young people forced to leave home, families living with separation and uncertainty, and the people who found themselves welcoming strangers into their communities.

It is Mark Wheeller’s first new play since Pandemexplosion.

And there could hardly be a more fitting way to mark its publication.

Tonight, on the day the play is published, Lichfield Cathedral School performs 24 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes at Lichfield Cathedral — the community from which the play emerged bringing those words to the stage.

The play is available now from Salamander Street and booksellers.

And if you are near Lichfield, there are public performances tonight and tomorrow evening.

Sending love and luck to everyone involved in the performance. 

#MarkWheeller #WhatADifferenceADayMakes #VerbatimTheatre #NewPlay #DramaTeachers #GCSEDrama #ALevelDrama #YouthTheatre #ukraine
Winner: THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN. Huge congratu Winner: THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN.

Huge congratulations to Martin O’Connor, National Theatre of Scotland and everyone involved in THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN, winner of Scots Stage Production o the Year at the Scots Language Awards.

A witty, provocative and wonderfully theatrical solo show, THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN digs into Ossian, myth-making, language, identity and the stories Scotland tells about itself.

We’re proud to publish Martin’s brilliant play at Salamander Street — and thrilled to see it recognised.

Congratulations to the whole team.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScotsLanguageAwards #ScotsStageProductionOTheYear #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow
4 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes — publishe 4 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes — published 22 September. Pre-order via Salamanderstreet.com ... or your favourite bookshop. 

#MarkWheeller #WhatADifferenceADayMakes #VerbatimTheatre #NewWriting #DramaTeachers #SchoolTheatre #YouthTheatre #GCSEDrama #ALevelDrama
WANTED: Too Much Punch for Judy production photos WANTED: Too Much Punch for Judy production photos

We’re preparing a special 40th anniversary edition of Mark Wheeller’s Too Much Punch for Judy – and we’d love to include some of its performance history in the new book.

If you’re a drama teacher, former student, performer or director who has been involved in a production over the years, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for photographs from school, college, youth theatre and other productions of 'Too Much Punch for Judy', from any point in its 40-year history.

If you have a photo you’d be happy for us to consider for inclusion in the new printed edition, please send it to us along with:

• the name of the school, college or theatre company
• the year of the production, if known
• the names of anyone pictured, where possible
• a short caption or memory from the production
• confirmation that you have permission for the photograph to be reproduced

Please get in touch with us at info at salamanderstreet.com

And if you know someone who performed in Too Much Punch for Judy years ago, tag them or send this post their way. We’d love to see how the play has been brought to life over the past four decades.
Before 24 February 2022, there was school, footbal Before 24 February 2022, there was school, football, music, friends, family, pets and plans for the future.

Then everything changed.

In 24 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes, Mark Wheeller uses the real words of young people and families from Ukraine, alongside voices from the Lichfield community, to explore what happens when ordinary life is suddenly divided into before and after.

The new verbatim play is published by Salamander Street on 22 September, the same day Lichfield Cathedral School gives its first public performance at Lichfield Cathedral.

24 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes by Mark Wheeller

Find out more and pre-order from SalamanderStreet.com

#MarkWheeller #WhatADifferenceADayMakes #VerbatimTheatre #NewWriting #DramaTeachers #SchoolTheatre #YouthTheatre #GCSEDrama #ALevelDrama
Published today: QUEER PLAYS, VOLUME ONE. Edited Published today: QUEER PLAYS, VOLUME ONE.

Edited by J D Stewart, with a foreword by Alan Cumming, this landmark anthology brings together eight bold, funny, moving and vital works by Scottish LGBTQ+ playwrights.

Spanning myth, memory, family, identity, desire, survival and joy, QUEER PLAYS, VOLUME ONE celebrates the range, energy and cultural importance of queer Scottish drama.

The anthology is supported by the Scottish Society of Playwrights and published by Salamander Street today.

Available now from Salamander Street and your favourite bookseller.

#QueerPlays #QueerScottishDrama #ScottishTheatre #LGBTQTheatre #LGBTQBooks #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #DramaStudents #TheatreTeachers #Playwriting #ScottishWriters #SalamanderStreet
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