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This year’s Open Door’s panto Peter Pan at the Garrison Theatre was a great rip-roaring production with a large, mostly young, but well-drilled cast who really got the audience going.A rather demure start saw the three Darling children in bed, but things quickly became much more colourfu... Read more...
Cambridge, 1890s. Four young women arrive at Girton College hoping to attain science degrees, pioneers in the fight for female equality.The play Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale, performed to an almost full Garrison Theatre at the weekend by Islesburgh Drama Group, charted their baptism of fire a... Read more...
A “very exciting” future for the Garrison Theatre awaits now that a committee has been set up to protect its place in the community.That is the view of president of Islesburgh Drama Group Martin Summers, who was one of the 15 drama enthusiasts who attended the first meeting of the Friends of... Read more...
In The Shetland Times this week...• 'Exciting future' for Garrison Theatre as committee set up to protect its place in the community.• As new fire control centre is unveiled in Dundee a whistleblower insists serious operational errors are still occuring.• Web closes on 'spiderman' ... Read more...
Plans are afoot for a public meeting which will help determine the long-term future of the Garrison Theatre in Lerwick.Earlier this year the theatre was thrown a lifeline with support pledged by Shetland Arts until the end of March 2020.But what happens after that is unknown – because the ... Read more...
A new Shetland Youth Theatre production which reflects on the tragedies of the First World War though the medium of poetry will have its first showing today.The production, titled In the Still of the Night Have We Wept, will be performed in Baltasound later today, with a second showing in the Ga... Read more...
A brave woman is Morag Mouat, producer and director of Ernest Thomson's On Golden Pond, the lates production by Islesburgh Drama Group at the Garrison Theatre in Lerwick.In a review of an earlier performance of the play (written in 1978) – the New Yorker wrote "what courage it must have ta... Read more...
Shetland Charitable Trust and Shetland Arts have pledged their support for the Garrison Theatre in Lerwick, whose future has been uncertain, for at least the next three years.The trust, which owns and maintains the theatre, and the development agency, which maintains it, said their support for t... Read more...
In response to the article in the previous edition regarding the uncertain future of the Garrison Theatre, I must join the organisers of the drama festival in expressing my concern.The Garrison Theatre has been an important venue in Shetland's cultural and artistic landscape during its 113-year ... Read more...
There may be worries over the future of Lerwick's Garrison Theatre but that did not affect another memorable Shetland County Drama Festival.The event reached its conclusion last night with the final performances and the awarding of trophies by visiting adjudicator Paul Dougal.The overall... Read more...