Welcome to Citadel Arts Group |
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We work with people of all ages to create theatre and collect living memories of older people. We bring the past to life, create suprises in the present, and bring hope for the future through the Arts.
Join us at "The Siege of Leith" our production for the 2010 Leith Festival.
- Liz Hare, director.
"The siege was really the first time Scotland had joined forces with England properly, but it was also key to the Scottish Reformation, and the end of the Catholic Church ruling the country.
The siege story is not well known at all, even in Leith, and it's great that a play is to be staged to mark its 450th anniversary."
Leith Local History Society chairman Jim Tweedie.
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Citadel has brought drama to local communities in Scotland for over twelve years. We work with actors to develop new writing with a focus on mature artists seeking an opportunity to see their work professionally performed. In theatres, schools, community centres, clubs and residential homes, we develop and script plays from living stories and historical documents.
Our audiences include older people, young people, those with learning disabilities, community and marginalised groups. We provide opportunities for up-and-coming actors. Our writers come from all ages and walks of life.
We believe that live theatre can tackle challenging topics, educate, amuse, help strengthen communities and bridge the generation gap.
Reviews
'....- a fantastically entertaining journey through the struggle to gain enfranchisement for women...talented actors (Stephanie Falls, Mark Kydd, Caroline MacKellar and Mairi Jayne Weir)...excellent use of Scots' (Edinburgh Guide.Com)
'It Seems Like Yesterday!'
"three great performances" (by Robert Camron, Yvonne Briglmen and Catriona MacInnes). "These plays are three superb little gems which cast a revealing human light on the recent past. They deserve many more performances." Thom Dibdin, Edinburgh Evening News
"brings the past to life in anything but nostalgic mood? deftly acted, it conjures up youth through the eyes of age with painful accuracy"
Susan Mansfield reviewing It Seems Like Yesterday! in the Scotsman.
'Gentlemen?s Bairns' by C S Lincoln:
"...a bejewelled Scots script, high production standards including gorgeous costumes, tight direction." EdinburghGuide.com
'The Penicuik Play' by Cecilia Rose
"This play is for everybody because it is fun and everybody enjoyed it." "The characters were real and believable?it was local." "It brought back good and bad memories from my childhood." Audience feedback.
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Leith Festival 2010
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The Seige of Leith Show
South Leith Church Hall
Thu 17 to Fri 18 June 10 7.00 PM to 9.30 PM DAILY
Sat 19 June 10 2.30 PM to 5.00 PM
Join time-travelling Malkie MacMorran on a trip to 1560: Scotland, England and France are fighting. Leith's a war zone, where rats tail soup's a delicacy. Drama, music and humour bring history alive.
Tickets obtainable from the Leith Festival web site:
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Leith Festival Performance
This project is especially relevant to the Leith area as Pilrig Park fort, where the English troops were based, is being excavated.
Citadel will perform the play in South Leith Church Hall, a venue associated with Mary of Guise, the Scottish Regent at the time of the Siege.
Citadel Playwrights Workshop
Citadel is holding an all-day Playwrights Workshop in South Leith Halls,on Monday 14th June 10-12 and 1-3pm – a chance to hear a short play reading, meet the WEA Playwrights Workshop members who scripted the Siege of Leith Show, and for new writers to try their hands at writing short plays based on local history or personal memories. |
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