"Festival and the Imaginate Festival. The Traverse Theatre began as a theatre club in 15 James Court, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, a former doss-house and brothel also known as Kelly's Paradise and Hell's Kitchen. It was ""a long, low-ceilinged first-floor room barely 15ft wide by 8ft high"" with 60 seats salvaged from the Palace Cinema placed in two blocks on either side of the stage. The theatre is named because Terry Lane mistakenly believed that the staging arrangement is called 'traverse'; he later realised that it is 'transverse' but it was already too well known to change it. In its first year"
"of operation, a Theatre Conference was organised by director Jim Haynes, John Calder and Kenneth Tynan and including a Happening involving Allan Kaprow among others. The first performance was on 2 January 1963. Following a surveyor's report in March 1969 which stated that the internal floors of James Court were unsafe, the Traverse moved to a former sailmakers's loft at 112 West Bow in the east end of the Grassmarket. This larger space had a 100-seat theatre with flexible seating configurations. The first performance in this venue was on 24 August 1969. In its early days the theatre included exhibition"
"space for the visual arts, until 1966 when the administrators for that space – including Richard Demarco – moved away to establish what became the Richard Demarco Gallery. In 1992, the Traverse moved to its current location, 10 Cambridge Street. A £3.3 million purpose-built two theatre space with bar café created as part of Saltire Court development on Castle Terrace. The theatre's first performance at this location was on 3 July 1992. Traverse 1 is the larger space with flexible seating that can be moved to create many different configurations (e.g. transverse, end on, in the round, etc.). The most"
"creators of the Traverse Theatre, John Calder, Jim Haynes and Richard Demarco, in 1963. While their original objective was to maintain something of the Festival atmosphere in Edinburgh all year round, the Traverse Theatre quickly and regularly presented cutting-edge drama to an international audience at both the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe during August. It set a standard to which other companies on the Fringe aspired. The Traverse is occasionally referred to as ""The Fringe venue that got away"", reflecting its current status as a permanent and integral part of the Edinburgh arts scene. The Pleasance, a venue since"
"Jim Haynes James Haynes (born 10 November 1933), commonly known as Jim Haynes, is a former figure in the British ""underground"" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s. He was involved with the founding of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the paper ""International Times"" and the London Arts Lab in Drury Lane for experimental and mixed media work. Haynes was born in the United States in Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, in far northern Louisiana. He spent several years in Venezuela and attended an unnamed university. In 1956, Haynes was serving in the US military and stationed with a unit in Scotland; he decided to"
"has described the Traverse's programme as, ""The backbone to the Fringe programme. What you see there will often set the tone and tenor of the rest of the Fringe."" From its beginning in 1963, the Traverse Theatre has launched the careers of many of Scotland's best-known writers including John Byrne, Gregory Burke, David Greig, David Harrower and Liz Lochhead. During the 1960s Richard Wilson was a regular performer. Throughout the 1970s the Traverse Theatre became a mecca for actors, including Timothy Dalton, Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Simon Callow, Bill Paterson and Steven Berkoff. In 1978 David Hayman famously directed John"
"the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh, on 19 May 1979. John Breck played Phil, and Robbie Coltrane played Spanky. ""Cuttin' a Rug"" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as ""The Staffie"". A rewritten version, ""Threads"", was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 March 1980. ""Cuttin' a Rug"" is set in Paisley Town Hall, on a Friday evening in 1957. Act One takes place in the ladies' and gents' cloakrooms; Act Two on the terrace overlooking the town. It is The Annual Staff Dance of A. F. Stobo & Co., Carpet Manufactures. During the first act, everyone arrives at the"
"2011 on his way from Paris to the Edinburgh Festival, but he recovered. His newsletter is to be found on his website. 2016 Haynes was invited to be a living exhibit at Victoria and Albert museum in London in their exhibit about London in the 1960s. 2017 Haynes was awarded an honorary PhD from Edinburgh Napier University. Jim Haynes James Haynes (born 10 November 1933), commonly known as Jim Haynes, is a former figure in the British ""underground"" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s. He was involved with the founding of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the paper ""International Times"" and the"
"London at the age of 94. Travers served as prime warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (1946) and as vice-president of Somerset County Cricket Club. He received the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 1976. In the same year he was presented with a Special Award at the Evening Standard Awards for his services to the theatre. A theatre named in Travers's honour has been built at his old school, Charterhouse. Travers laid the foundation stone in 1980, and the first production in the completed theatre was ""Thark"" in January 1984. Source: Gale ""Contemporary Authors Online"". Ben Travers Ben"
"2018 the original production was revived for a UK tour, in a partnership between the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Touring Consortium Theatre Company. The tour ran from 28 March 2018, until 28 April and visited Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Guildford, Cheltenham, Bath, Richmond and London's Park Theatre. Following completion of the tour the production will transfer to the West End's Ambassadors Theatre, where it will run from 6 June 2018, running until 1 September. The West End transfer marks the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The play is set in 1944 at Southwick House, the headquarters"
"a place where Demarco finds a comfort for his ideas about expanding the influence of art of all types in Scotland. Richard Demarco Richard Demarco, CBE (born 1930 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. Demarco was a co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963. Three years later he and other organisers of the theatre's gallery space left the Traverse to establish what became the Richard Demarco Gallery. The gallery, which doubled as a performance venue during the Edinburgh Fringe, ran from 1966 to 1992. For many years, the Demarco Gallery"
"company. A historical drama about a miners' strike on Tyneside in 1862, it opened the new Flora Robson Theatre in Newcastle. A long relationship with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh began in 1965, enabling Taylor to leave his day job and concentrate on his work as a dramatist. The first play for the Traverse was ""Happy Days Are Here Again"", followed by ""Bread and Butter"" (1966), ""Lies about Vietnam"" (1969), ""The Black and White Minstrels"" (1972), ""Next Year in Tel Aviv"" (1973), ""Schippel"" (1974), ""Gynt"" (1975), ""Walter"" (1975), and ""Withdrawal Symptoms"" (1978). By the late 1970s, Taylor became increasingly involved"
"Theatre and people of all ages living and working in Glasgow and the surrounding area, by encouraging them to engage with the theatre's work and participate in drama. Dominic Hill was Artistic Director at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh for the last 3 years. Prior to the Traverse, he was Co-Artistic Director (with James Brining) at Dundee Rep Theatre, a post he held for 5 years from 2003. Before joining Dundee Rep, Dominic worked as a Freelance Director, Associate Director at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Assistant Director at Perth Theatre. He has received"
"Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, in a production that opened on 3 April 1975. It was directed by Michael Ockrent and David Gothard and starred Roy Marsden and Katherine Schofield. To Damascus To Damascus (), also known as ""The Road to Damascus"", is a trilogy of plays by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The first two parts were published in 1898, with the third following in 1904. It has been described as ""Strindberg's most complex play"" and as ""his greatest play,"" due to its ""synthesis of a wide variety of myths, symbols and ideas with a profound spiritual analysis in a"
"portrayed as a drunken, obscene soldier in the ""Circe"" episode. After the first performance of ""Travesties"" Stoppard received a letter from Henry Carr's widow, expressing her surprise that her late husband had been included as a character in Stoppard's play. ""Travesties"" was first produced at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 10 June 1974, by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production was directed by Peter Wood and designed by Carl Toms, with lighting by Robert Ornbo. It closed on 13 March 1976 after 156 performances at the Aldwych, the Albery Theatres in London and the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York"
"would host the 2015 Turner Prize. Tramway (arts centre) Tramway is a contemporary visual and performing arts venue located in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Based in a former tram depot in the Pollokshields area of the South Side, it consists of two performance spaces and two galleries, as well as offering facilities for community and artistic projects. The Hidden Gardens is situated behind Tramway. The new extension to Tramway is the home of the Scottish Ballet, and is claimed to be one of the leading venues of its type in Europe. The Tramway occupies the former Coplawhill Glasgow Corporation"
"Richard Demarco Richard Demarco, CBE (born 1930 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts. Demarco was a co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1963. Three years later he and other organisers of the theatre's gallery space left the Traverse to establish what became the Richard Demarco Gallery. The gallery, which doubled as a performance venue during the Edinburgh Fringe, ran from 1966 to 1992. For many years, the Demarco Gallery promoted cultural links with Eastern Europe, both in terms of presenting artists such as Paul Neagu from 1969, Marina Abramović from"
"of the museum is the British Rail Class 370 Advanced Passenger Train. The Grade II-listed Edwardian Lyceum Theatre is in the centre of Crewe. It was built in 1911 and shows drama, ballet, opera, music, comedy and pantomime. The theatre was originally located on Heath Street from 1882. The Axis Arts Centre is on the Manchester Metropolitan University campus in Crewe. It relocated from the university's Alsager Campus when it closed. The centre has a programme of touring new performance and visual art work. The Box on Pedley Street is the town's main local music venue. Both the Lyceum Theatre"
"the Rose Theatre Exhibition, the Financial Times headquarters and Anchor Terrace, a Georgian building standing on the site of Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre. The road is designated the A300. Southwark Bridge Road Southwark Bridge Road is a road in Southwark, London, England, between Newington Causeway near Elephant and Castle and Southwark Bridge across the River Thames, leading to the City of London, in a meandering route. The road was created by connecting a series of other streets to provide access from the south to Southwark Bridge in 1819, which as a private venture was not able to use the publicly"
"other arts activities. It also hosts 360 Youth Theatre, the film company Talking Pictures and the administration of Dance Challenge. Regularly appearing groups include Argosy Players, Ruislip Dramatic Society, Hillingdon Musical Society, Players 2, Pastiche Musical Theatre and Purple Theatre, as well as professional companies Big Wooden Horse Theatre and Tall Stories. Until 2009, Tall Stories, producers of The Gruffalo, were a theatre company in residence. Compass Theatre The Compass Theatre is a 158-seat theatre in Ickenham owned by the London Borough of Hillingdon. Middlesex County Council bought Ickenham Hall and its grounds in 1948 in order to convert it"
"Theatre in London in 2012, moved to Trafalgar Studios in 2013. The play then began a UK tour, following its run at Trafalgar Studios, from January 2014 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, visiting 17 venues and ending in Darlington in July, prior to the opening at the Duchess Theatre in London. The play then opened at the Duchess Theatre in the West End on 14 September 2014, where it remains and is currently booking until 7th April 2019. The direction is by Mark Bell, and the cast features Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. Sets are by Nigel"
"although he collaborated on a few revivals and adaptations of his earlier work. He returned to playwriting in 1968. He was inspired to write a new comedy in the early 1970s after the abolition of theatre censorship in Britain permitted him to write without evasion about sexual activities, one of his favourite topics. The resulting play, ""The Bed Before Yesterday"" (1975), presented when he was 89, was the longest-running of all his stage works, easily outplaying any of his Aldwych farces. Travers was born in the London borough of Hendon, the elder son and the second of the three children"
"groups. The term came into use in the late 1950s, and the show ""Beyond the Fringe"" premiered in Edinburgh in 1960, before transferring to Broadway and is the West End. One of the early innovators in fringe theatre was an American bookseller, James Haynes, who in 1963 created the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Also noted in this period is the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Jerzy Grotowski's Theatre of 13 Rows, and Józef Szajna's Studio Theatre in Warsaw. Haynes, while at the helm of the Traverse, was receiving state support and even got a new theatre in 1969. In 1969,"
"the Traverse Theatre, they teamed up with composer Peter Brewis and together created three black comedy musicals, ""'Ave You 'Eard the One About Joey Baker?"", ""Irony in Dorking"" which won a Fringe First Award and ""The Gambler"" whose 1986 revival at the Hampstead Theatre was nominated for an Olivier Award and was also recorded by the specialist musical theatre label First Night Records. He wrote the libretto for ""The Fashion"", an opera for Deutsche Oper am Rhein, with music by Giorgio Battistelli. This was performed in the company's 2008 season. He co-wrote the BBC sitcom ""Wilderness Road"" as well as"
"theatre in London. Its venue hire rates remain among the lowest and therefore the most competitive in London theatre, providing the opportunity to host the best of the emerging companies based in or visiting the capital. Southwark Playhouse has moved venues twice in its 20-year history. After leaving its original home in Southwark Bridge Road in 2006, the theatre operated in vaults beneath platform one of London Bridge railway station, accessed from Tooley Street, from 2007 until early 2013. From early 2013 to 2018 the theatre is based at 77-85 Newington Causeway before moving back to London Bridge as part"
"number of theatres, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Traverse Theatre, The Tron Theatre, and the Royal Lyceum Theatre. In 2017 she directed Caryl Churchill’s ""A Number"" for the Royal Lyceum Theatre and was awarded Best Director in the 2017 Scottish Critics CATS awards. She was Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015 – 2018 and is directing ""The Duchess of Malfi"" for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in 2019. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Zinnie Harris Zinnie Harris FRSE is an award-winning British playwright, screenwriter and director currently living in"
"School of Speech and Drama and a PGCE in Drama from the University of Reading. Last year the ""Observer"" listed Orla as one of the top 50 Cultural leaders in the U.K. Since taking up post as Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre her work has won a variety of Herald Angels, Fringe Firsts and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland. Orla O'Loughlin Orla O'Loughlin is a British theatre director. She joined the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh as Artistic Director in January 2012. Orla O'Loughlin was previously Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre. Orla joined the company in 2007, moving from the"
"Thark (play) Thark is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fourth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented at the theatre by the actor-manager Tom Walls between 1923 and 1933. It starred the same cast members as many of the other Aldwych farces. The story concerns a reputedly haunted English country house. Investigators and frightened occupants of the house spend a tense night searching for the ghost. The piece opened on 4 July 1927 and ran for nearly a year. Travers made a film adaptation, which Walls"
"The Alnwick Playhouse The Alnwick Playhouse is an arts centre, theatre and cinema in the town of Alnwick in Northumberland, England. It is also the headquarters of the NTC Touring Theatre Company. The building itself consists of many different parts. There is the main stage (with green room behind it) and an auditorium that sits over 200 people. Underneath the auditorium is a bar area with seating. On the ground floor, there is a foyer, a box office, a workshop, the NTC Touring Company office and a small 'black box theatre' style performance/rehearsal space with some limited seating. The Playhouse"
"objective was to maintain something of the Festival atmosphere in Edinburgh all year round, the Traverse Theatre quickly and regularly presented cutting edge drama to an international audience on both the Edinburgh International Festival and on the Fringe during August. Sadler's Wells, under Lilian Baylis, nurtured talent that led to the development of an opera company, which became the English National Opera (ENO), a theatre company, which evolved into the National Theatre, and a ballet company, which eventually became the English Royal Ballet. The Royal Shakespeare Company operates out of Stratford-upon-Avon, producing mainly but not exclusively Shakespeare's plays. The RSC"
"Keynes Theatre (5 - 30 June), Birmingham Hippodrome (3 July - 8 September), Manchester Palace Theatre (18 September - 24 November) and Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (4 December - 12 January 2019). Further venues were announced on 13 March 2018. The tour will go to Theatre Royal, Plymouth (15 January - 16 February 2019), the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford (19 February - 23 March), Edinburgh Playhouse (2 - 27 April), the Bristol Hippodrome (7 May - 8 June), Southampton Mayflower (11 June - 6 July) and Norwich Theatre Royal (16 July - 17 August). On 17 October 2017, the adult cast"
"and founding director Vicky Featherstone, who left the company in 2012. Featherstone wished to stage the play whilst still with the National Theatre of Scotland, but due to issues with the novels rights was unable to. Hall, having read the book when it was first published, also felt he wished to adapt it. Featherstone and Hall met at the Evening Standard Awards around eight years prior to the play's official announcement and the idea was reignited. Prior to opening, the play received a preview performance at the Platform, Glasgow on 15 August 2015, before transferring to the Traverse for one"
"featured in a recent publication entitled ""Twenty Theatres You Should See Before You Die"" by Amber Massie-Blomfield. The theatre was located in Edith Walk, Great Malvern. Local puppeteer Dennis Neale started work on the theatre in 1997, opening for the first show in November 1999. The theatre's name comes from the building's original purpose – it was converted from a derelict Victorian gentlemen's public convenience. It is trapezoidal in shape, long and from to wide. The theatre used to regularly host puppetry, professional and amateur actors, drama, poetry, storytelling and opera, and became a regular venue of the Malvern Fringe"