DRAMA FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Every year, we deliver workshops and drama sessions for young people, in partnership with Gaelic schools or youth groups.
We have created some resources to help people deliver drama sessions to young people, within the social distancing rules. Please see the YOUTH THEATRE page.
Staran
STARAN is Theatre Gu Leòr's development initiative. As part of our ongoing commitment to Gaelic arts training, development and research we offer various opportunities for artists and professionals working in Gaelic to develop their skills, knowledge and experience.
workshops
We offer different workshops to schools and community groups every year, some connected to the themes of our current production. Our aim here is to engage and work with different schools and community groups in a creative context and also to engage and deepen our connections with our audience base. Please contact us here if you’d like more information about any of our workshops.
Open door
We offer free, one to one advice sessions for new and established artists and professionals.
Join us for a cup of tea and biscuits to discuss placement opportunities, mentoring, professional development, Gaelic arts, script development, collaboration and project ideas.
These sessions are arranged on request and designed to suit the needs of the individual.
To book a session, please email your enquiry to: info@theatreguleor.com
PUBLISHING
Theatre Gu Leòr is committed to publishing original scripts of some of the plays we commission, in order to provide a future resource for audience and theatre makers, and also in order to add to the cannon of the Gaelic literature. We were delighted to have had the support of the Gaelic Books Council when publishing.
To date we’ve publishing in both Gaelic and English, Doras Dùinte, the stage adaptation of Shrapnel, Cèilidh and more recently we’ve commissioned and published Maim-Slè a book of art and poetry and extracts from the script MAIM, as well a couple of the children’s books/audio books of the Cora series, based on our series of plays about a young girl Cora and her adventures, for early primary school children. Scotties is also available as part of the collection Dràma na Gàidhlig: A Century of Gaelic Drama.
We continue to publish our scripts and all those already published are currently all available online and in store at the Gaelic Book’s Council here will shortly be available online from our website.
TRAINING
We work with new practitioners to develop their skills to a professional level, transferring both drama and linguistic skills, building up a pool of skilled drama practitioners with Gaelic and to also extend the reach of our engagement as widely as possible, both geographically and creatively. We offer paid placements as well as various training and development projects. See our opportunities page here for the most recent updates.
CROWDIE AND CREAM
PRESENTED BY GLASGOW GAELIC SCHOOL & THEATRE GU LEÒR
Theatre Gu Leòr and visiting designer Frances Collier worked with pupils from S2/3 at the Glasgow Gaelic School to produce a new piece of devised drama inspired by the beautiful music from the BBC TV series Crowdie and Cream (with kind permission from Donald Shaw). Glasgow Gaelic School’s wonderful music and drama teachers, Frances McEachen and Marion Campbell, brought the orchestra and S2/3 pupils together for the show. Pupils were on-stage, behind the scenes and involved in every part of the production.
