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@Wen sorry I missed this post! Been so busy prepping for and contributing to #DunsPlayfest that I have hardly touched mastodon for weeks. Did you make it to any shows? Did your neighbour's show go well?

Brilliant news creative arts magazine here including an insight into Duns Playfest, a festival of new drama in the Scottish Borders.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGilU6PLY4/Eb6KYvj4xOaljE7RbHQLpA/view?

#creativetoots #LiveTheatre #NewWriting #Theatre #DunsPlayfest

The opening weekend of Duns Playfest is in just six weeks time! Just picked up the roadside banners!
#DunsPlayfest #Theatre #NewWriting #ScottishBorders #CommunityTheatre #Duns

#DunsPlayfest is fast approaching! Duns will be the place to be in the first week of May.

This is the logo of #DunsPlayfest an annual festival of #Theatre focused #NewWriting held at the beginning of May in the #Berwickshire town of #Duns in the #ScottishBorders. Established in 2019 by the #CommunityTheatre group #DunsPlayers but now attracting professional, student and other amateur companies and performers, including #Dance #LiveMusic and #Poetry as well as #Theatre from #Berwick #Northumberland #Edinburgh and beyond. New works premiered at our festival have gone on to be toured elsewhere including #EdinburghFringe.

John McEwen at his desk explaining how Duns Playfest came about in 2019:
https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/new-writing-at-dunsplayfest

#DunsPlayfest #NewWriting #Theatre #ScottishBorders

Red room with tall, packed bookcases with a cluttered table behind which John sits looking at the camera.

Well after a bit of exploring, I have submitted a request for a PixelFed.scot account, explaining that it is to share photos from past #DunsPlayfest festivals to help promote the festival and shows that go on from Duns to tour elsewhere. We'll see if that constitutes commercial promotion in their eyes... But if anyone can suggest a more appropriate instance for a small Scottish charity into supporting new dramatic writing, please let me know!

#Pixelfed.scot

Duns Playfest welcomes early stage career Artists and writers.

Among the 70 plus plays and events last year were ones by Borders Youth Theatre, several excellent student companies down from Edinburgh and one play by Duns Players written & directed by Jamie who is still at High School.

We have more booked this year. If you have a script or idea for us to consider for 2026 do get in touch!

#newwriting #theatre #emergingartist #DunsPlayfest

Five young actors defying gravity on a black stage with a toilet....

The open mic sessions at Duns Playfest were effectively invented by Gordon Reynolds (photo in previous toot). He turned up one day at the 2023 festival asking if there was an opportunity to play. We'd just had to cancel a performance for that evening, an actor had caught COVID, so we gave him the spot despite not knowing him.
His performance that night blew us away with his sensitive musicality. It was one of the stand out events of the week.

#DunsPlayfest #LiveMusic

Colour photo of a smiling Gordon Reynolds in a trilby hat sat with his guitar on stage.

Programme for Duns Playfest is nearly set, but we still have a few opportunities to perform on our cabaret stage or if you would rather we have OPEN MIC sessions during the week. Ready for you to turn up and drop in! Times to be announced soon! We have space for music as well as drama, particularly if it is new writing.

If you want to perform, please get in contact with sara@dunsplayfest.org.uk

#NewWriting #EmergingTalent #SingerSongWriter #Theatre #LiveMusic
#DunsPlayfest

Black and white photo: man with white beard and glasses holding an acoustic guitar against a black background.

Brilliant Borders Pub Theatre are back again at DunsPlayfest on Tuesday 6th May!
Each year this group of six writers produce a series of short plays inspired by a word, or a story, or a concept. Actors are given the scripts a week before and have just one day to rehearse and then perfrom the plays.

Why not buy an evening pass for that night? You are guarenteed at least three theatrical performances for £20/18...

https://buytickets.at/dunsplayfest/1456723

#newwriting #DunsPlayfest #scottishborders #theatre

Man and a woman together leaning on the floor over a green cushion on a black stage reading scripts.

'We (Duns Playfest) believe that theatre matters and new theatre - just-forged and ready, quivering, nerve-wracked, brave, alert, urgent, wrestling with reality, beautiful – matters tremendously.'

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/new-writing-at-dunsplayfest

#NewWriting #Theatre #DunsPlayfest

Ellie Zeegen from Firebrand performing the premiere of 'A Room of One's Own' at Duns Playfest 2024. Dressed in bowler hat and a man's dinner jacket, seated on a dining chair on a rug, gesticulating with a pen.

'Racism, sexism and homophobia are – let’s be frank - manifestations of stupidity based on ignorance and sometimes fear, and are especially idiotic – nonsensical - in the realm of art. If it is “woke” to say such things, DunsPlayFest is, indeed, terribly “woke”.'

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/dunsplayfest-as-a-platform-for-social-and-envionmental-change-mental-health-and-wellbeing

#DunsPlayfest #NewWriting #Theatre #MentalHealth

Five young women, grouped as five dots on a dice, some in period dress, focused on reading books, the central one facing the camera.

Looking forward to tomorrow for the first reading of two brand new plays that Duns Players hope to perform at Duns Playfest in May. One is a Wilson's tale, the other a local reworking of Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milkwood'.

#NewWriting #CommunityTheatre #DunsPlayers #DunsPlayfest #Berwickshire #Theatre

Do you want a career in Theatre Arts - whether that be on or off stage? Are you aged 18-25?

Would you like some work experience as one of our interns? There will food and accomodation provided, with a small payment to cover all expenses. Are you available from May1st - 11th for 11 days of theatrical intensity?! And you get a CREW hoodie!

Send your CV and covering letter to info@dunsplayfest.org.uk by 12pm Feb 1st.

#Theatre #Internship #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders

Six young actors, three in medical tunics, standing around and focused on a seventh seated actor, a young woman. A photo by Stacie Amelia of a theatre piece at Duns Playfest 2024.

Jan 9 deadline for applications for a playwriting residency with the Hugo Burge Foundation in Berwickshire. Private studio, onsite accommodation and £350 weekly stipend ending in a rehearsed reading at Duns Playfest 2025

#Theatre #NewWriting #DunsPlayfest #Residency #PlayWriting #ScottishBorders
https://www.hugoburgefoundation.org/residencies

A review of DunsPlayfest in 2024 by Stacie Amelia, an art critic who is also a brilliant photographer.
#DunsPlayfest #LiveTheatre #CommunityTheatre

https://staciereflects.com/2024/10/10/duns-playfest-a-hidden-gem-of-the-scottish-borders

Our brilliant interns this year were a major part of the positive feedback we got such as this from singer-song writer Katie Forbes: "The most fantastic, healing, inspiring and joyful memories made. It was run with such heart and talent, and dedication. DunsPlayFest is the community revolution we need."
#DunsPlayfest #internship #CommunityTheatre #Theatre

APPLY BEFORE 1 FEB!

#DunsPlayfest is looking for up to 10 people (18 - 25 yrs) to work as interns for our 2025 festival in May helping with Front of House, technical (lighting and sound), stage management, production and marketing.

Please send your CV and a covering letter to info@dunsplayfest.org.uk by February 1st 2025

Accomodation, food, small fee and LOADS of fun and experience!

Funded by Creative Scotland.

#internship #LiveTheatre #CommunityTheatre #ScottishBorders #qmudrama

Duns Playfest opens tomorrow and is all set to be even better than last year!. Here is a video of stills from last year:

#Duns #DunsPlayFest #Theatre #liveMusic #ScottishBorders

#DunsPlayfest

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