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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
Opening today at Dundee Fringe: PALS by Mirren Wil Opening today at Dundee Fringe: PALS by Mirren Wilson.

Wishing Mirren and the full cast and creative team a brilliant first night at The Little Theatre.

A funny and heartfelt play about friendship, growing up and the chaos of finding your place in the world, PALS follows four young Scottish women as they navigate the highs, lows and hilarious contradictions of being “perfectly average”.

Catch PALS at The Little Theatre, Dundee, today and tomorrow only.

Sending lots of love to everyone involved. 

#PALS #MirrenWilson #DundeeFringe #DundeeTheatre #TheLittleTheatre #ScottishTheatre #QueerTheatre #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #WomenInTheatre #Friendship #SalamanderStreet
Tonight at Stirling Castle: THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD Tonight at Stirling Castle: THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN.

Martin O’Connor’s witty, provocative solo show brings Scotland’s myths, stories and cultural contradictions to the magnificent setting of The Great Hall.

Produced by National Theatre of Scotland, THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN explores Ossian, identity, language, memory and the way Scotland is packaged for the world — with humour, bite and theatrical flair.

Catch it tonight, Friday 11 September, at Stirling Castle.

Tickets via National Theatre of Scotland.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #NationalTheatreOfScotland #StirlingCastle #ScottishTheatre #ScotsLanguage #Gaelic #SoloShow #ContemporaryDrama #SalamanderStreet
A new Mark Wheeller play is coming. 24 Feb 22: Wh A new Mark Wheeller play is coming.

24 Feb 22: What A Difference A Day Makes is Mark’s first new play since Pandemexplosion.

Created with Lichfield Cathedral School and drawn from real testimony, the play gives voice to young Ukrainians, British host families and a school community responding to the events of 24 February 2022.

It is a play about the moment ordinary lives are divided into before and after — and about fear, displacement, welcome, kindness and the fragile idea of home.

Published by Salamander Street on 22 September.

To find out more about the play and pre-order visit www.salamanderstreet.com

#MarkWheeller #VerbatimTheatre #NewWriting #DramaTeachers #SchoolTheatre #YouthTheatre #GCSEDrama #ALevelDrama
THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN by Martin O’Connor has THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN by Martin O’Connor has been shortlisted for Scots Stage Production o the Year — and public voting is now open.

Produced by National Theatre of Scotland, Martin’s witty, provocative solo show takes on Ossian, myth-making, Scots, Gaelic, cultural identity and the ways Scotland is packaged, performed and remembered.

We’d love your support. Please vote for THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN in the Scots Stage Production o the Year category.

Vote noo via the Scots Language Awards website.

#ThroughTheShortbreadTin #MartinOConnor #NationalTheatreOfScotland #ScotsLanguageAwards #ScotsStageProductionOTheYear #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #ScottishTheatre #SoloShow #EdinburghFringe #SalamanderStreet
Dundee Fringe — meet the PALS. Mirren Wilson’s PA Dundee Fringe — meet the PALS.

Mirren Wilson’s PALS: Perfectly Average Lassies of Scotland is a sharp, funny and heartfelt new play about friendship, identity, growing up and the messy business of working out who you are when everyone else seems to have a plan.

PALS celebrates the friendships that shape us — the ones that hold us together, wind us up, and sometimes force us to face the truth.

Catch PALS at The Little Theatre, Dundee, from Sunday 13 – Monday 14 September as part of Dundee Fringe.

Tickets £10.

#PALS #MirrenWilson #DundeeFringe #DundeeTheatre #TheLittleTheatre #ScottishTheatre #QueerTheatre #NewWriting #ContemporaryDrama #WomenInTheatre #Friendship #Theatre #SalamanderStreet @dundeefringe
Vote noo for hame. teeth. CLUB. Kari Hall’s fierc Vote noo for hame. teeth. CLUB.

Kari Hall’s fierce, funny and unforgettable play has been shortlisted for Scots Stage Production o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2026.

Rooted in working-class Scots experience, hame. teeth. CLUB brings Dalkeith, friendship, nightlife, survival and young women’s voices to the stage.

The awards celebrate the people and projects keeping Scots alive across culture, music, words and performance — and now it’s over to the public to vote.

Please gie hame. teeth. CLUB your vote before 13 September.

Vote here: https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguageawards/scots-language-awards-unveil-affa-fine-shortlist-as-voting-opens/

#hameTeethCLUB #KariHall #ScotsLanguageAwards #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #HandsUpForTrad #ScottishTheatre #ScotsTheatre #NewWriting #WorkingClassTheatre #WomenInTheatre
Coming soon: PALS by Mirren Wilson Sadie, Flo, Cl Coming soon: PALS by Mirren Wilson

Sadie, Flo, Claire and Taylor are best pals, approaching thirty and wondering when everyone else became proper adults.

So they do what any perfectly sensible group of friends would do: ditch a housewarming party and head for the Scottish hills.

What follows is a chaotic weekend of bad packing, big laughs, buried worries and a friendship pushed well beyond its comfort zone.

Full of heart, PALS: Perfectly Average Lassies of Scotland is a four-woman play about friendship, growing up, Scottish identity and the pressure to have life figured out.

The play opens at Dundee Fringe on Sunday 13 September, with the published edition coming soon from Salamander Street.

#PALS #MirrenWilson #DundeeFringe #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #FemaleFriendship #ContemporaryTheatre #ScottishDrama #SalamanderStreet @dundeefringe
Today in Nairn: WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR. Alan Bis Today in Nairn: WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR.

Alan Bissett’s funny, affectionate and thoughtful play imagines a meeting between two giants of Scottish culture: Billy Connolly and Alasdair Gray.

A story about art, class, politics, Glasgow, friendship and the spark that flies when two brilliant minds collide.

See WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR tonight at 8pm as part of Nairn Book & Arts Festival, at Nairn Community Centre.

Originally commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive and GICF.

#WhenBillyMetAlasdair #AlanBissett #AlasdairGray #BillyConnolly #AlasdairGrayArchive #GICF #NairnBookAndArtsFestival #ScottishTheatre #ScottishWriting #Glasgow #SalamanderStreet @nairnfest
Planning Drama for September? Mark Wheeller’s pla Planning Drama for September?

Mark Wheeller’s plays are used by schools, colleges and youth theatres around the world — but which one is right for your students?

From GCSE set texts and verbatim theatre to online safety, ensemble performance and PSHE education, we’ve put together a quick guide to help you choose.

Swipe through for a few starting points — and explore the full Mark Wheeller collection at Salamander Street.

#DramaTeacher #DramaEducation #GCSEDrama #SchoolDrama #VerbatimTheatre #MarkWheeller #DramaTeaching #TheatreEducation
Last few chances to see hame. teeth. CLUB at the E Last few chances to see hame. teeth. CLUB at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Reviewed in The Scotsman as “a forceful play”, Kari Hall’s new solo show is fierce, funny, raw and impossible to ignore.

Rhiannon Lucy Bird plays Morgan Shields: a working-class young woman from Dalkeith whose Saturday nights are all bravado, Dragon Soop and chaos — until everything she’s been laughing off starts to catch up with her.

Catch hame. teeth. CLUB before its final performance on 30 August at Iron Belly, Underbelly Cowgate.

Read the Scotsman piece, then book your ticket.

#hameTeethCLUB #KariHall #RhiannonLucyBird #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #TheScotsman #Underbelly #IronBelly #ScottishTheatre #WorkingClassTheatre #NewWriting #SoloShow #SalamanderStreet
Last week to catch THE RED HOURGLASS at the Edinbu Last week to catch THE RED HOURGLASS at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Alan Bissett’s comic spider satire is horrifying, funny and unnervingly persuasive. THE RED HOURGLASS gives the natural world a voice — and asks whether humans are really the ones in charge.

Catch it at The Stand Comedy Club 2 until Saturday 29 August.

Don’t leave it to the final thread.

#TheRedHourglass #AlanBissett #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #TheStandComedyClub #ScottishTheatre #DarkComedy #Satire #NewWriting #Theatre #SalamanderStreet
The Stone Head speaks today. Wishing Douglas Yann The Stone Head speaks today.

Wishing Douglas Yannaghas, Cold Open Theatre and everyone bringing HEADCASE to the Edinburgh Fringe a brilliant opening at Thistle Theatre, Greenside @ Riddles Court.

Strange, tense and full of gothic unease, HEADCASE follows Ian as a quiet life in rural Rosedale takes a very unsettling turn.

Catch it at the Fringe from 24–29 August.

Sending love and luck to the full team.

#Headcase #DouglasYamnaghas #ColdOpenTheatre #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #GreensideVenues #RiddlesCourt #HorrorTheatre #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #SalamanderStreet
Looking for something strange, sharp and unsettlin Looking for something strange, sharp and unsettling at the Edinburgh Fringe?

HEADCASE by Douglas Yamnaghas comes to Thistle Theatre at Greenside @ Riddles Court from 24–29 August.

Ian is trapped in rural Rosedale, watching the village church slowly empty around him. Then he finds a Stone Head that speaks only to him — and decides it might be time to start listening.

A new horror play about loneliness, belief, obsession and the dangerous comfort of being told you’re special.

Catch HEADCASE at the Fringe for one week only.

#Headcase #DouglasYamnaghas #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #GreensideVenues #RiddlesCourt #HorrorTheatre #NewWriting #ScottishTheatre #ContemporaryDrama #TheatreMakers #SalamanderStreet
Today at the Fringe: WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR. Ala Today at the Fringe: WHEN BILLY MET ALASDAIR.

Alan Bissett’s affectionate, funny and thoughtful new play, originally commissioned by The Alasdair Gray Archive and GICF, imagines a meeting between two giants of Scottish culture: Billy Connolly and Alasdair Gray.

A story about Glasgow, art, class, politics, friendship and the strange electricity that happens when two brilliant minds spark off each other.

Playing today at 4.45pm at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

There are only two chances to catch this at the Fringe — today, and again on 23 August — so don’t miss it.

#WhenBillyMetAlasdair #AlanBissett #BillyConnolly #AlasdairGray #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #ScottishStorytellingCentre #ScottishTheatre #Glasgow #NewWriting #SalamanderStreet #Fringetoday
Five stars for JUDAS EXCLUSIVE. Theatre and Tonic Five stars for JUDAS EXCLUSIVE.

Theatre and Tonic sparkles praise on Will McDowell’s biblical chat-show satire.

Jesus is dead. Judas is enemy number one. And the only way to clear his name is a live TV interview on Simona Tonight.

Catch JUDAS EXCLUSIVE at ZOO Southside until 28 August.

#JudasExclusive #WillMcDowell #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #ZOOSouthside #TheatreAndTonic #FiveStarReview #NewWriting #Satire #ComedyTheatre #FringeTheatre #SalamanderStreet @mrprincewilliam
A LEVEL RESULTS DAY Whatever is written on that p A LEVEL RESULTS DAY

Whatever is written on that piece of paper today, if you’ve studied Drama or Theatre at A Level, we think you deserve a round of applause.

So, to mark Results Day, we’re giving away 50 FREE PLAYS to A Level students.

Choose any single Salamander Street play from our website and you’ll only need to pay the postage. (sorry no anthologies)

First 50 students to get in touch — just send us a DM with the play you’d like.

Maybe it’ll introduce you to a new playwright, give you an idea for your next performance, or simply be something good to read after all that studying.

Congratulations on getting through your A Levels — and good luck with whatever comes next.

#ALevelResultsDay #DramaStudent #TheatreStudent #DramaSchool #YoungActors #Plays #NewWriting #Theatre
A great piece from Far Out reappraising Room on Fi A great piece from Far Out reappraising Room on Fire, The Strokes’ much-scrutinised follow-up to Is This It — and the pressure, expectation and creative spark behind one of the great 2000s indie records.

At the centre of that story is producer Gordon Raphael, who reunited with The Strokes for Room on Fire after helping shape the unmistakable sound of their debut.

For the story behind those sessions — from New York basement studios to the indie records that defined an era — Gordon’s memoir The World Is Going To Love This.

#TheStrokes #RoomOnFire #IsThisIt #GordonRaphael #TheWorldIsGoingToLoveThis #Wordville #MusicMemoir #IndieRock #NewYorkMusic #MusicBooks #IndieSleaze
hame. teeth. CLUB. is at the Edinburgh Fringe now hame. teeth. CLUB. is at the Edinburgh Fringe now – and Corr Blimey has been talking to writer Kari Hall about the story behind the show.

Set against the Saturday-night chaos of Dalkeith Miners Club, the play follows Morgan as she confronts friendship, consent, accountability and what it really means to support survivors – all told in a blend of Scots and English and rooted firmly in contemporary working-class Scottish life.

As Kari puts it: “It’s funny, but also really important.”

Read the full interview with Corr Blimey, then catch hame. teeth. CLUB. at Underbelly Cowgate, 5–30 August at 5.10pm.

#EdFringe #EdFringe2026 #hameTeethCLUB #ScottishTheatre #NewWriting #NewScottishWriting #FringeTheatre
Rikki Stein is on the BBC World Service, talking a Rikki Stein is on the BBC World Service, talking about his extraordinary life in music – and his long association with the legendary Fela Kuti.

For nearly six decades, Rikki has worked with some of the most influential artists in modern music, from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead to Fela Kuti and the Master Musicians of Joujouka. His memoir Moving Music tells the stories behind that remarkable career: Woodstock, Glastonbury, life on the road, Morocco, African music and plenty more.

Listen to Rikki’s BBC interview, then discover the full story in Moving Music: The Memoirs of Rikki Stein, published by Wordville.

#RikkiStein #MovingMusic #FelaKuti #Afrobeat #MusicMemoir #MusicHistory #Wordville #BBCWorldService
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