Survival project online series#

The season is being produced in association with key Scottish theatres who have been critically hit economically by the COVID-19 virus. Creative teams/pairings for the project will be announced over the next few weeks. The National Theatre of Scotland will announce a call out opportunity for writers to be commissioned to write short new pieces for the project. Many established writers and performers have already confirmed their support of the project including Cora Bissett, Mark Bonnar, Tam Dean Burn, Alan Cumming, Brian Cox, Kate Dickie, Blythe Duff, Finn Den Hertog, Greg McHugh, Lorraine Mcintosh, Shereen Nanjiani, Julie Wilson Nimmo, Adura Onashile, Richard Rankin, and Robert Softley Gale, with written contributions from Jenni Fagan, Greg Hemphill, May Sumbwanyambe, Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Ian Rankin.ДЄ host of actors, writers and directors will be engaged and paid to create these short pieces of digital theatre remotely from their personal spaces of isolation. This project is being delivered in association with BBC Scotland and BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine project.

Survival project online series#

Scenes for Survival is a new season of digital short artworks from National Theatre of Scotland which will launch new pieces of theatre from creative talents across a series on online platforms and channels over the next few months.

We continue to make theatre in this way so that we can survive these times of crisis and then come together again on ScotlandвЂ™s stagesвЂќ We know that theatre is also about the shared, communal, live experience вЂ“ the visceral understanding that the quickening of your breath and beating heart is happening alongside those sitting next to you. We thank those who have come forward with such immediate generosity to get us started. Scenes for Survival will provide much-needed paid opportunities for artists, celebrate our exceptional national culture and raise money for the freelance community who are experiencing drastic economic and emotional hardship. The National Theatre of Scotland is part of a theatre sector that is struggling to survive through these times. When we come through the other side of this era-defining moment we will all feel changed by what we have been through and it is theatre that will allow us to imagine, with hope, where we are going to find ourselves and how it will feel. We want to bring audiences together online despite our collective isolation. In Scotland during times of crisis we have always turned to our storytellers to offer connectivity, solace and joy.

вЂњWe are living through a period that is unprecedented in my lifetime. Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland says Part of this programme is supported by high profile Scottish entertainment talent which will also serve as a fundraising platform for those most financially affected within the theatre industry. This programme has also been curated to support the Scottish theatre sector and creatives during the current critical situation. Scenes for Survival вЂ“ a crisis responsive artistic online project launched in association with BBC Scotland and BBC ArtsвЂ™ Culture in Quarantine project.ДЄn alternative theatrical online programme is being offered to isolated audiences across Scotland and beyond. The National Theatre of ScotlandвЂ™s immediate response to the impact of COVID-19 on the theatre industry.