#newwriting — Public Fediverse posts

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
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18W2A43Way/

Article in The List about DunsPlayfest!
#Theatre #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #NewWriting

https://list.co.uk/news/duns-play-fest-rolls-out-programme-for-latest-celebration-of-the-arts-48220

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

DunsPlayfest is fast approaching (first week in May) a nine day festival of new theatrical drama, here in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
#NewWriting #Theatre #communityTheatre #ArtsForAll #DunsPlayfest #ScottishBorders

And here is the full programme for #DunsPlayFest 2026

#newWriting #Theatre #LiveMusic #CommunityTheatre #EmergingTalent #Comedy

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4fd882545f.html

Duns PlayFest's Director (John McEwen) and Producer (Sara Best) talk about the packed programme for this year's festival (first week in May).
#DunsPlayFest #NewWriting #Theatre #CommunityTheatre #Duns #ScottishBorders

https://youtube.com/shorts/O3KdUip9Xz0?

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

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

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/setting-the-stage-how-dunsplayfest-transforms-volunteer-hall-into-a-theatre-wonderland-by-eric-bra

🎭 Delighted to share that I’ll be directing “What’s Going to Happen to Us?” by Merry Graham at the OSO Theatre on Nov 23.

A tender, funny, and deeply human play set in a hospital room, it explores love, ageing, and the small moments that hold us together. Come along and share the evening with us.

https://jrogel.com/whats-going-to-happen-to-us-directing-at-oso-theatre/

#Theatre #Directing #NewWriting #OSOTheatre #Barnes #Stage #Storytelling #WhatsGoingToHappenToUs

Here is DunsPlayFest's youngest playwright and trustee in conversation with this year's winner of the Hugo Burge Award.

#DunsPlayFest #theatre #emergingArtists #NewWriting

https://youtu.be/WspWq7xlP0o

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
#DunsPlayFest #Theatre

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

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
#DunsPlayFest

“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.
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#DunsPlayFest #Theatre #NewWriting
#RichardDemarco #EdinburghFest

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.

#DunsPlayFest #NewWriting #Theatre #ScottishBorders

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]

#DunsPlayFest
#NewWriting #Theatre #live_music

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/

A blog post by the chair of Duns Playfest, a brilliant 9 day festival of new theatrical writing every May in Berwickshire.

#DunsPlayFest
#Duns
#NewWriting #Theatre #CommunityTheatre
#ScottishBorders

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/dunsplayfest-at-the-heart-of-the-community

Short interview here of Ellie Zeegen of Firebrand Theatre Company with stills taken of her premier performance of "Room of Ones Own" at last year's Duns Play Fest taken by Being Stacey.

https://youtu.be/mU-OSylcbvY

#DunsPlayFest #Theatre #NewWriting #VirginaWolf #Firebrand #Duns

#DunsPlayfest was brilliant in 2025. The website splash page now has links to a couple of reviews and a couple of short videos created by our team of young (paid) interns.

If you have a new play that you want to see staged in 2027 let us know, the programme for 2026 is now full and looks amazing!

Duns Play Fest | Theatre | Duns, UK https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/

#Theatre #TheatreStudies #communityTheatre #NewWriting #WritingComunity #Duns

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

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

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

Looking forward to Tues 14th for the first reading of two brand new plays that Duns Players hope to perform at Duns Playfest in May. Message me if you fancy joining us!

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

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

The story behind Duns Playfest. How creativity in the Scottish Borders has been nurtured, helped by Creative Scotland and other funders, to form what is becoming an annual marker on Scotland's cultural year, a showcase for new theatrical drama.
#DunsPlayFest #Duns #Berwickshire #NewWriting #Drama #Theatre #liveMusic

https://www.dunsplayfest.org.uk/post/the-story-behind-dunsplayfest?fbclid=IwAR31h3g9kY3bOjR7V-npMQKgEuhHkDPbqHtdJeIl33YguVI2dCaOsDWXvNc

Here's a look at our first performance of A World Divided! I'm very proud to be a part of this talented company.
And I look damn fine in that coat! 😉
🎥credit: Brett Turner

#musical #NewWriting #acting #theatre #steampunk #AWorldDivided

Here's a look at our first performance of A World Divided! I'm very proud to be a part of this talented company.
And I look damn fine in that coat! 😉
🎥credit: Brett Turner

#musical #NewWriting #acting #theatre #steampunk #AWorldDivided

If you’re in London, you can see me perform live in Mi$fortune at the #GoldenGoose #Theatre April 18th - 22nd: https://www.goldengoosetheatre.co.uk/misfortune

#actress #newwriting #play #offwestend #fringe

And just like that, I did my 1st ever performance in London! And with a full house✨️

You've got 6 more chances to see "A Society" at #NetworkTheatre as part of #VAULTfestival!

Tix: https://vaultfestival.com/events/a-society/

#vaults #VirginiaWoolf #scum #fringe #londontheatre #blackmastodon #fnd #disability #allfemalecast #newwriting #satire

Now that I’ve been here a few days, it’s probably high time I did one of those hashtaggy #introduction posts.
Here are a few to give a sense of what I’m about
(in addition to the inevitable boosting of any cats, pups, pandas or sloths I see on here). 🥰
#IndieMusic 🎸
#6Music 🎧
#Gigs 🪩
#Theatre #LondonTheatre 🎭
#OffWestEnd 🎟
#NewWriting 🖋
#Comedy 🤡
#EdFringe 🎪
#Photography 📸
#Cinema 🎥
#Travel 🥾
#Craft 🧶
#Gardening 🌸
#Art 🖼
#Politics 🗳
#ProEU 🇪🇺
#ProChoice ✊🏻
#ProScience 💉
#Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏾‍🫲🏿
#GTTO 📊