#dunsplayfest — Public Fediverse posts
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Here is Jamie's latest #DunsPlayFest podcast which came out yesterday. An interview of local actor and writer Jane Houston Green that was recorded in front of a live audience at this year's festival.
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Jamie Mein who was interviewed here is our youngest trustee. Just entering final year in High School, he is a very talented playwright who has had a play in the last three festivals.
Last summer he also started up a Podcast series for #DunsPlayFest releasing one episode a month here he interviewed local Director Karen Anderson and then me... -
With #DunsPlayFest we are deep in the impact report writing and funding application making period of our annual cycle. Still finding out about what happened during the main festival in May.
Just found this short video review!
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Short video review of this year's #DunsPlayFest put together by one of our young paid interns giving a flavour of this year's festival and an insight into how the festival is supporting new drama and bringing theatre to the Scottish Borders.
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A brilliant photo by Stacie (see https://staciereflects.com/) of my alcoholic vicar in "The Red Lion" at this year's #DunsPlayfest.
The play, the third (& last?) part of a comedy series that have premiered at the last three festivals was written & directed by a hugely talented young man Jamie Mein (who was sitting his Highers the same week...)
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Fancy joining our team? We’re recruiting volunteers for #DunsPlayFest 2027!
We’re looking to replace our retiring trustees and to extend our lively Operations Group. Even if you have had little contact with theatre, but would like to get involved, we'd love to hear from you. DunsPlayfest is dedicated to inclusivity - we want to share the magic with all! There will be a role for you in our team.
Interested? DM me or email [email protected]
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I've been writing an end of project report for one of the funders of this year's DunsPlayfest. The main festival in 2026 had 100 events across 7 venues and 9 days. I was involved in lots, but there were many bits that I wasn't. Just discovered a brilliant bit that I missed.
We got a grant to commission seven new plays by local new writers and then see them staged.
#NewWriting #DunsPlayFest #Theatre
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Insightful piece here seeing the community value of DunsPlayfest showing how it is so much more than it's tagline "Bringing brand new theatre to the Borders"
#DunsPlayfest #Theatre #NewWriting #SocialCohesion #community
https://staciereflects.com/2026/05/28/dunsplayfestbehindthescenes/
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One of the theatre companies that returned to DunsPlayfest this year was Slash House. Another brilliant piece of new writing excellently presented. Well worth seeing if they decide to tour it. See the independent review here:
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So DunsPlayfest is over for another year. Here is an interesting reflection from one of our Trustees (and writer/director of one of this year's productions that attracted one of the biggest audiences) about the meaning of life.
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Curious about DunsPlayfest? Here is a review from one of our returning audience members, the photographer Stacie Amelia.
#dunsplayfest #Theatre # NewWriting
https://staciereflects.com/2026/04/09/returning-once-again-to-dunsplayfest-where-theatre-breathes
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And here is the two lead characters of the play that our teenager writer/director is working with doing a promo for DunsPlayfest where the play will be premiered
#NewWriting #DunsPlayfest #Theatre #teenager
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Article in The List about DunsPlayfest!
#Theatre #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #NewWritinghttps://list.co.uk/news/duns-play-fest-rolls-out-programme-for-latest-celebration-of-the-arts-48220
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DunsPlayfest is fast approaching. Here is an insightful blog by our youngest Trustee about the joy of seeing your play brought to life through performance.
#Dunsplayfest #newWriting #theatre #ScriptToStage #EmergingArtists
https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/bringing-worlds-to-life-by-jamie-mein
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DunsPlayfest is fast approaching (first week in May) a nine day festival of new theatrical drama, here in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
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And here is the full programme for #DunsPlayFest 2026
#newWriting #Theatre #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #EmergingTalent #Comedy
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Duns PlayFest's Director (John McEwen) and Producer (Sara Best) talk about the packed programme for this year's festival (first week in May).
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This is DunsPlayFest's youngest trustee, Jamie who has been part of community theatre since he was eight. He’s a regular onstage with Duns Players and at Berwickshire High School where he is currently doing Highers. He recently won the NODA North Councillor’s Rising Star Award.
He is also a writer/director whose play opened last year's DunsPlayFest, its sequel is booked for next year's festival.
#newWriting #theatre #DunsPlayFest #Berwickshire #BerwickshireHighSchool
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So I wrote a Blog post for DunsPlayFest about the transformation of a drill hall into a magical space for new theatre.
#DunsPlayFest #CommunityTheatre #Theatre #Live_music #Duns #ScottishBorders #MentalHealth #NewWriting
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@JackTheCat Yep wind has finally got to Berwickshire, just in time for me to have to go out to a first reading of a new play I'm in for next year's #DunsPlayFest
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DunsPlayFest's patron and theatre impresario, Richard Demarco, has been named Scottish European of the year!
#ScotlandInEurope #DunsPlayFest #Theatre #EuropeanMovement
https://bylines.scot/politics/europe-politics/richard-demarco-scottish-european-of-the-year/
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Here is DunsPlayFest's youngest playwright and trustee in conversation with this year's winner of the Hugo Burge Award.
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And on top of this news, just heard that DunsPlayFest's Festival Director, John McEwen and Producer, Sara Best, are off to the Thistle Awards this evening being in the final four of this prestigious award in the Outstanding Festivals Category.
#AccessibleTheatre #theatreFestival #emergingArtists #newWriting
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Firebrand premièred this new radio play at this year's DunsPlayFest. Presented on stage as a radio play it was remarkably spell binding. Great to see them touring it.
#newWriting #DunsPlayFest #Hawick #Theatre #RadioPlay #Firebrand
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Shot from one of the new plays that premiered at this year's DunsPlayFest.
Ollipops a dark comedy written & directed by Eilidh Macdonald, which went on to a successful run at the Fringe.
#ScottishTheatre #emergingArtists #newWriting #theatre
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“I might be the only person who has been to every Edinburgh Festival since it began in 1947 but I think the true spirit of the festival now resides… in Duns...
DunsPlayFest is all about love.”
Said by Richard Demarco,, patron of DunsPlayFest in 2024. Photo is of him opening the 2025 festival.
#DunsPlayFest #Theatre #NewWriting
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This was one of the home-grown new plays at this year's DunsPlayFest 'Doom and Dread'. A young woman's battle with negative male-expressed thoughts of doom & dread. Amusingly written and brilliantly acted.
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Are you a writer that would like to present work at DunsPlayFest?
Do you have an idea you would like to submit?
Email: [email protected]
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And this review by someone who was so impressed by the positive spirit of the 2024 festival, they returned this year.
#DunsPlayFest #Theatre #Community https://staciereflects.com/2025/05/10/returning-to-the-heart-of-it-dunsplayfest-2025/ -
If you think the blog post by the chair of DunsPlayFest linked in the previous toot is a bit too gushing, here is a review of this year's festival by an individual reviewer from London
#DunsPlayFest #Theatre #NewWriting
https://zine.theneverpress.com/report-dunsplayfest-duns-2-10-05-25/