WITH Scotland’s playhouses out-of-bounds thanks to our unwelcome guest Covid-19, many of the nation’s theatre artists have been taking their wares online. The situation created something of a conundrum for the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS). Typically, the national company eschews Christmas theatre, keen, as it is, to avoid stepping on the financial toes of Scotland’s theatre companies, for whom the festive season usually brings the biggest box office returns of the year. Graham McLaren’s brilliant staging of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for the NTS in 2011 was an exception, but that was designed for deliberately small, studio audiences in Govan.
Rapunzel, National Theatre of Scotland, Kirsty Anderson “The beauty of photographing actors is they perform for you in front of the camera,” says Kirsty Anderson. The photographer, late of this parish, has taken these portrait shots of the cast of Rapunzel, this year’s National Theatre of Scotland Christmas show, produced in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland. In a year in which theatre shows are out of bounds because of coronavirus, the NTS has filmed a new show for cinemas and home viewing this festive season. Filmed at Stirling Castle, Rapunzel has a cast that includes Julie Wilson Nimmo, Darren Brownlie, Amber Sylvia Edwards as Rapunzel and Michelle Chantelle Hopewell as Betty Botanista, while the doyen of Scottish pantos Johnny McKnight, who helped write the show, appears as the narrator Paige Ootabook. McKnight also directed it, with Stewart Kyasimire directing the film.
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The cast of Balamory, which ended production in 2005 (Image: BBC)
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