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Five women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home.

Headlong has begun recruitment for the next wave of Headlong Origins Directors. The programme, which forms part of the company's commitment to supporting the next generation of theatre makers, looks to celebrate and nurture early career directors from throughout the UK, outside of London.

The Traverse has announced the upcoming production of Same Team - A Street Soccer Story following a public reading during TravFest23 and as the final production of the Traverse's 60th anniversary year.

Wonder Fools in association with Traverse Theatre, Ayr Gaiety, Eden Court, Perth Theatre and Youth Theatre Arts Scotland with plays co-commissioned by Wonder Fools and Traverse Theatre present Positive Stories for Negative Times: Season Three

Critically acclaimed theatre company Wonder Fools return with a third season of their innovative participatory programme, Positive Stories for Negative Times.

In a small pub in Prestonpans, East Lothian, four millennials are told a story. The true story of four local miners who, 86 years ago, travelled from the streets of Prestonpans to the valleys of Spain. They gave up everything that was familiar: for a land that was not; for a people they had never met; and for a cause they believed was right.

Wonder Fools - one of Scotland's most impressive and community-centred modern theatre companies - is bringing their nationally-acclaimed hit show - 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War - on a Scottish mainstage tour for the first time ever, including new music from BBC Scottish Artist of the Year finalist 'VanIves' and new design from award-winning Becky Minto. 

Today, Anna Berentzen, Callum Berridge, Sam Hardie,  Mandeep Kaur Glover and Emily Ling Williams have been announced as the Headlong Origins Artists for 2022. Now entering its third year, the programme aims to celebrate and nurture early career theatre makers from across the UK, outside London. 

The Almeida Theatre has announced the professional cast joining the previously announced eighty strong community company for The Key Workers Cycle, a cycle of nine new plays celebrating the stories of those who keep our daily lives running.

And Then Come the Nightjars by Bea Roberts will be presented in February 2022 at The Fullarton Theatre, Castle Douglas. This award-winning play is a story of friendship against the odds and a tribute to a vanishing way of life.

The Almeida Theatre announces an eighty strong community cast and the creative team for The Key Workers Cycle, a cycle of nine new plays celebrating the stories of those who keep our daily lives running.

Positive Stories for Negative Times created by Wonder Fools in association with Traverse Theatre is back with an incredible lineup of the UK's most exciting voices.

A new comedy that takes Year of the Rona and replaces it with Year of the Jan. It’s a show for anyone who wanted to run down the street screaming NO every time we had another zoom call to make; for those who saw the families on Gogglebox more than their own; and for all us who want to put that last year behind them and get back in the theatre, to return to that sense of being together as a community. A hilarious show guaranteed to make us feel closer to each other than we have all of last year.

The Traverse will kick off its 2021 programming with its biggest ever series of creative development activity with its First Stages Festival.

The Traverse Theatre was founded with the hope of carrying the spirit of Edinburgh's Festivals throughout the year- and in 2020 they have been inspired by their past to create a new future as they announce the launch of Traverse 3, their new online venue, and the extension of its Traverse Festival programme throughout the rest of the year.

Fast rising theatre company Cut the Cord has announced the launch of their brand-new initiative designed to shine a light on Nordic plays and to spread awareness of modern Nordic theatre and its approaches with a new UK Festival.

Sprout Works's world premiere of Roller Dynasty' written by Ryan Drake and directed by Emma Miller, will open on November 8, 2018 at 8pm.

Sprout Works's world premiere of Roller Dynasty' written by Ryan Drake and directed by Emma Miller, will open on November 8, 2018 at 8pm.

DOCTOR DOLITTLE stars Mark Williams as Doctor Dolittle, Brian Capron as Albert Blossom/Straight Arrow, Vicky Entwistle as Polynesia, Adele Anderson as Lady Bellows/Poison Arrow, Mollie Melia-Redgrave as Emma Fairfax, and Patrick Sullivan as Matthew Mugg.    

The Citizens Theatre has announced details of the final season to be presented at its home at 119 Gorbals Street before work commences on a major redevelopment of the iconic Glasgow venue.