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• Tickling Jock – Comedy Greats from Sir Harry Lauder to Billy Connolly

  By clairemckendrick on February 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A new exhibition celebrating Scotland’s ‘masters of mirth’ opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Saturday 23 February 2013 and runs until 25 May 2014. Special Collections are delighted to lend some material from the Scottish Theatre Archive to the… Read More ›

• Peter Darrell at the GFT

  By clairemckendrick on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

   In December 2012 we posted information on the BBC 2 broadcast, Peter Darrell – Scotland’s Dance Pioneer. This tribute to the life and legacy of Peter Darrell,  which marked the 25th anniversary of his death, will be shown at the GFT on Friday 15 February at… Read More ›

• Final curtain at the Byre Theatre ?

  By clairemckendrick on February 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Byre Theatre officially closed its doors on Saturday 26 January 2013. The final performance, on Thursday 31st January was a charity show to help raise funds for Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Here we take a look at the history of the building from… Read More ›

• National Theatre of Scotland: theatre without walls

  By clairemckendrick on January 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  We want to see a brilliant and dynamic Scottish National Theatre which will build on stronger foundations for drama in Scotland and will win prestige within this country and beyond by producing new writing  and world-class productions. James Boyle, Scottish… Read More ›

• Peter Darrell – Scotland’s Dance Pioneer

  By clairemckendrick on December 4, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Peter Darrell, founder of the Scottish Ballet, was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 16 September 1929 and died in Glasgow on 2 December 1987. In 1956 Darrell and Elizabeth West, who was teaching at the Old Vic School in Bristol, founded a company which was… Read More ›

• Treasures of the Scottish Theatre Archive

  By clairemckendrick on November 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  A new poster exhibition featuring treasures from the Scottish Theatre Archive is currently on display in the University Display area, Am Fosglan (Library entrance level). Founded in 1981, the Scottish Theatre Archive forms part of the Special Collections within the University… Read More ›

• Giles Havergal CBE

  By clairemckendrick on October 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A recent donor and visitor to the Scottish Theatre Archive was the actor, playwright and theatre director Giles Havergal. Born in Edinburgh on 9 June 1938, Giles Havergal came to live in Glasgow in 1953 when his father, Dr Henry Havergal,… Read More ›

• The Archives of TAG Theatre Company

  By clairemckendrick on September 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  2012 marks the 45th anniversary of TAG Theatre Company, the perfect time to look at the history of the company and the archive held in the Scottish Theatre Archive. TAG’s original Artistic Director, Christine Redington, believed Introducing young people to the Arts is… Read More ›

• Illustrated history of Glasgow’s Alhambra Theatre

  By clairemckendrick on January 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A recent donation to the Scottish Theatre Archive, this fully illustrated volume documents the fascinating history of the Alhambra Theatre. The Alhambra was designed by Sir John J. Burnet (1857-1938), a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number… Read More ›