THEATRE: Ways of seeing the world from Night by the River Tay
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THROUGHOUT the pandemic, theatre artists have been locked out of their plague-shuttered playhouses. Many have become engaged in alternative, online activities in order both to provide much-needed employment for themselves and others, and to maintain the essential connection with their theatre-starved audiences. One of the most imaginative and rewarding of these online projects is Braw Tales, the latest online offering from Mull Theatre. Unable either to welcome visitors to its splendid, little playhouse at Tobermory or to take its theatrical wares on tour, the Hebridean company has chosen, instead, to beam (or, more accurately, stream) five new, short, animated films into our homes.
Updated: 11/05/2021, 12:57 pm
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Morna Young, pictured right, wrote the animation Stella to explore class and language attitudes.
A new animation by north-east writer Morna Young explores how attitudes towards the Scots language could be a barrier for some career aspirations.
Stella tells the story of a feisty 15-year-old with a big dream of becoming an astronaut to look down on the “totty wee planet”.
However, when the teen meets stuffy career advisor Mrs Berk she is told to “talk properly” while trying to be talked out of her seemingly impossible dream.
‘People think she obviously can’t be intelligent’