A DRAMA charting the life of an Indian revolutionary, who was also the playwright’s great-uncle, has won a leading prize in Edinburgh.
Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers is the sixth play to win the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.
The £10,000 award is given annually by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and the Traverse Theatre.
Premiering 70 years after India gained independence, Lions and Tigers is based on the story of Tanika Gupta’s great-uncle Dinesh Gupta, a Bengali revolutionary who fought against British colonial rule in the early 1930s.
The shortlist for the prize included three other plays: Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch; Glory on Earth by Linda McLean; and Locker Room Talk by Gary McNair.
The drama award was launched in 2012.
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THE BBC's Proms in the Park in September in Glasgow features an all-woman line up.
It will include Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Elizabeth Watts, the leading soprano, the Scottish–Egyptian duo The Ayoub Sisters and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2018 winner Hannah Rarity.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Bell, will perform classical pieces as well as traditional Scottish reels.
Members of the Big Noise Orchestra will also perform at the event on Glasgow Green.
The BBC SSO have been partners of Big Noise since it was established in the Raploch area of Stirling.
The show will be presented by tenor and BBC Radio Scotland presenter Jamie MacDougall.
Proms in the Park is part of the annual culmination of two months of concerts at the BBC Proms.
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GLASGOW-based theatre company Vanishing Point is to premiere its play Interiors in China.
The show will be staged on 24 and 25 October at the Shanghai Grand Theatre as part of the Shanghai International Mime Festival.
The following week – on 2 and 3 November - it will be presented at Jiashan Leftbank Theatre as part of Jiashan International Arts Festival.
The cast will include actors Elicia Daly, Aurora Peres and Davide Pini Carenzi.
Both the Shanghai and Jiashan performances are presented by Beijing 707 N-theatre Co. Ltd, and the Edinburgh Fringe showcase in China.
Interiors is inspired by the Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck's play, Interior it is conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton and was first staged in 2009.
www.vanishing-point.org/show-dates
THE winners of the 2018 Scottish Arts Club Theatre Awards have been announced.
The award for best Scottish theatre production, The Flying Artichoke, went to Coriolanus Vanishes, written and directed by David Leddy and performed by Irene Allen at the Traverse Theatre.
It was described as a "breath-taking, dramatic and spell binding psychological thriller".
It is a Fire Exit co-production with the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
The runner up for the best Scottish theatre production is Scene Change Productions Heroine at Assembly on the Mound.
The Bright Spark Award is shared by ClartyBurd Theatre Company writers Laila Noble and Emilie Robson, for Moonlight on Leith, "a comic insight into the lives of Leithers" on the PBH’s Free Fringe at Bar Bados Complex, Cowgate.
The 2018 awards will be presented on Wednesday 22 August at the Scottish Arts Club.
The panel of eight judges is chaired by Joyce Caplan with Muriel Romanes, Catherine Robins, Liz Smith, Anna Stapleton, John Scott-Moncrieff, Neil Weir, and Mark Wilson.
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