To Glasgow, to do a Sunday show after the Scottish elections. It’s the city I was born in and I love its smell – slightly smoky, yet fresh with a strong tang of the Atlantic – and I love its colours, especially the distinctive tawny-orange Giffnock sandstone out of which so much of Victorian Glasgow was built. In the 1840s, one of my more ferocious ancestors, William Stevenson, rose like a rocket in the quarry business, from shop boy to buying out the company owner in his early twenties. He retired at 40, owning almost all the famous Giffnock quarries and with seven sons.
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A smaller nation – post-imperial, post-EU, and possibly one day even post-UK – has begun to emerge. It’s time the left caught up
It might be time for the left to undertake its own English journey. Photograph: fotoVoyager/Getty Images/iStockphoto
It might be time for the left to undertake its own English journey. Photograph: fotoVoyager/Getty Images/iStockphoto
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Towards the end of his 1930s masterpiece,
English Journey, JB Priestley writes of “memories reaching from West Bromwich to Blackburn, Jarrow to Middlesbrough, darkly crowding in on me”. The suffering witnessed by the author during the Great Depression, he explains, turned him into a Little Englander: “That
International theatre festival for children launches online
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New Delhi, Dec 19 : Organised by Theatre I-Entertainment Trust and supported by Korean Cultural Centre India, Pitara International TYA Festival 2020 is born from the idea of celebrating childhood. In its second year, the festival will bring together five professional performances for audiences from December 19-23, on a digital platform. It will feature national and international performances from India, Ireland and South Korea across genres of toddler s theatre, object theatre, storytelling and dance theatre.
The festival aspires to provide quality theatre for children, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In this new online avatar, the performances will be premiering online and will be available to watch anytime for the next 72 hours. The festiv