Arts and Style

National Theatre of Scotland accused of ignoring classic Scots drama

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Critics say NTS management is stuck in the present and using government money to undermine the language  

Observer March 26

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Curse of Glencoe tempts William Dalrymple

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Travel writer is turning his attention to the family legacy

John Hamilton's dramatic 19th century painting The Massacre of Glencoe
from the Times Dec 24

 

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Anne Fine deplores 'gritty realism' of modern children's books

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by Jack Malvern and Jackie Kemp

Former Children's Laureate Anne Fine said that modern stories offered little hope for their protagonists

Once upon a time, in the spiffing 1950s, characters in children’s books enjoyed wonderful adventures after which they all lived happily ever after. By contrast, reality weighs heavily on today’s young readers, a former children’s laureate has warned.

Anne Fine said that cosy tales in which children’s characters looked forward to future adventures had been replaced by gritty stories that offered no hope for their weary protagonists.Contemporary literature is dauntingly bleak, with depressing endings that do little to inspire.

Former Childrens laureate Anne Fine reads to children from Hermitage Park School, Leith

(Colin Hattersley)

 

It's too late now, we've trashed the earth, let's party

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Innovative jazz saxophonist  and friend Phil Bancroft created a multi-media project called 'Home, Small As The World'. The first gig was in Edinburgh on August 3. Review below.

The band were in pjs, the set was an empty sofa and armchairs which the audience who were seated on very uncomfortable benches looked at rather wistfully. The beginning and end of the evening were enlivened by amusing and personal video footage featuring Bancroft's wife Jude and his pets. An attempt to get an audience member to mix in domestic sounds such as a flushing loo over another track was funny too - but only for the first couple of minutes.

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Scottish designer's art for windows

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As a child, Sarah Campbell spent her summer holidays on the Isle of Lismore. On walks, she and her artist mother would pick tufts of sheep's wool from the barbed wire fences and take it home. There they would wash, card and spin it, turn it into fabric on a loom and dye it.

Now working as a designer, Sarah has woven those childhood lessons into the one-off "textile paintings" doubling as window blinds that she creates in her workshop on the tiny island which sits under the mountains of Morvern in the Firth of Lorne for her company Mogwaii Design.

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