When Tightlaced Theatre
and Sporadic Music's co-production of Susanna Mulvihill's new play,
1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett, opens in Edinburgh's Summerhall complex
in a couple of weeks, it not only marks the opening of 2014's
home-grown theatre season. The show also points to a fertile
under-the-radar arts scene that exists in the capital via a network
of young companies working in venues outwith traditional theatre
spaces.
This has recently manifested itself, both in the In Your Face Theatre company's recent revival of the stage version of Irvine Welsh's novel, Trainspotting at Out of the Blue's converted drill hall home, and in the Village Pub Theatre's ongoing presentations of new work in the back room of the bar the company have adopted as home. Previously, the Siege Perilous company have produced work at the Malmaison Hotel on the Shore, while Creative Electric have been devising experimental work with young people in the bowels of the Bongo Club. T…
This has recently manifested itself, both in the In Your Face Theatre company's recent revival of the stage version of Irvine Welsh's novel, Trainspotting at Out of the Blue's converted drill hall home, and in the Village Pub Theatre's ongoing presentations of new work in the back room of the bar the company have adopted as home. Previously, the Siege Perilous company have produced work at the Malmaison Hotel on the Shore, while Creative Electric have been devising experimental work with young people in the bowels of the Bongo Club. T…