26
January

Panel Discussion at Holyrood

A Panel Discussion of A Satire of the Three Estates at the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, with the Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, 4 June 2014

Opening address

Fiona Hyslop MSP – Culture Secretary and Minister for External Affairs

Full Discussion plus question and answer session

Discussion only

A Panel Discussion of A Satire of the Three Estates at the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, with the Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, 4 June 2014

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27
November

The Three Estates International Symposium: Call for Papers

We are inviting proposals for short papers of 20 minutes length on any aspect of Lyndsay’s ‘Satire of the Three Estates’ for a symposium to be held at the University of Edinburgh between Friday 6th and Sunday 8th June 2014. If you would like a paper to be considered, please send a short abstract of your proposed topic (normally a paragraph or so of summary of the theme and argument of the paper should be enough) to greg.walker@ed.ac.uk before 31 December 2013.

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9
October

FE College Theatre Departments FREE workshops – book now!

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We are offering FE College Theatre Departments FREE workshops in working with A Satire of Three Estates and its importance to Scottish Theatre from January to February 2014.

  • Two of your staff will be invited to a free CPD session at Linlithgow Palace on how to use the resources developed. Dates for the CPD opportunity are 7th and 10th March 2014
  • A professional Theatre Director and a professional Actor will come to YOUR college and work with 1st year students for two days in January/February 2014.

They will:

  • Workshop the dramatic time of the play, to break down its themes and contextualize its significance to Scottish Theatre during 1500’s ( Theatre History)
  • Use improvisational techniques and physical comedy to explore the clues Lyndsey gives us in terms of performance choice and the allegorical characters listed ( Physical Performance Techniques).
  • Give the students confidence in speaking Old Scots (Voice and Dialect work)
  • Workshop and rehearse key speeches from the play with the students ( Acting and Performance)

There will also be an opportunity for the students to explore alternative staging choices i.e site specific staging, promenade, in-the-round and traverse staging.

We will also invite students to perform at out international conference on the play in June 2014.

If you wish to book this programme then please complete the

 

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13
September

Anjela D’Arcee (The Prioress) Interview

Angela D’Arcee from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

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13
September

Michael Mackenzie (Merchand) Interview

Michael MacKenzie from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

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13
September

Gerda Stevenson Interview

gerda stevenson.mp4 from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

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30
August

Scott Hoatson and Kern Falkner Interview

Scott Hoatson and Kern Falkner from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

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30
August

Educational Toolkits on the way

We are developing the next phase of the Three Estates community strand, creating educational toolkits and teachers resources in a bid to get the play back into the Scottish curriculum.  The toolkits were developed during the June 2013 project workshops – to get a flavour watch the Community Outreach Documentary.

 

 

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30
August

Paul Cunningham (Temporality) Interview

actors interviews 2 004 from Staging the Scottish Court on Vimeo.

 

Paul Cunningham, who played Temporality in both the Satire and the Interlude, reflects on the performances and the importance of The Three Estates as a play.

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30
July

The Three Estates: Interview with Gerry Mulgrew

Gerry Mulgrew talks about his experience of playing Folly in the June productions of A Satire of the Three Estates, saying that, despite the difficulty for an actor of having to wait five hours to come on (!), Folly is nevertheless key to the play: “Being the fool he can speak directly to the King, and also, in a way, transgress the conventions of the play and deliver a message.”

Having been with us throughout the project, Gerry says that he has grown to really appreciate how important this work is for the Scottish drama.  He reveals he might even do a “cabaret” version of it at some point in the future!  He talks about the excitement of being involved in the June productions, saying that in assembling such a stellar cast of actors, Greg Thompson was able to take the project beyond anything we might have imagined when we first gathered to read it through in January.  He also says that the play inspired some of the Scottish writers who were among its audience, such as Liz Lochhead and Ian Heggie.  Hopefully the ways in which the play has enthused and stirred the audience members as well as those involved in the production will bean important part of its legacy.

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