{"id":4519,"date":"2025-03-27T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:24:22","slug":"world-theatre-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2025\/03\/27\/world-theatre-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Theatre\u00a0 Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>World Theatre\u00a0 Day 2025<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As it is World Theatre Day today, it seems appropriate to write a little about Edinburgh\u2019s illustrious history and continued tradition of dramatic performance.<\/p>\n<h2>Edinburgh And Theatre<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps the first thing people think of is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Initially formed in 1947 as a more eclectic, grassroots \u2018fringe\u2019 to the more \u2018high cultural\u2019 Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe now dwarfs its erstwhile rival and is an established, world-famous cultural behemoth. Probably more famous nowadays for its significance to stand-up comedy, it hosts large-scale, expensive drama; the spirit of dramatic endeavour, experiment and (productive) failure is still there, in the lesser-known acts in the Fringe itself as well as the Free Fringe.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Fringe is not the only story. The Traverse Theatre was set up in 1962 by Richard Demarco, John Calder and Jim Haynes (amongst others) to encourage new playwrights at a time of high dramatic innovation in the 1960s. They had an international, cosmopolitan focus &#8211; the first play they produced was by Fernando Arrabal, an experimental Spanish playwright based in self-exile in Paris from Franco\u2019s Spain. It was initially situated in a disused building on Edinburgh\u2019s Royal Mile, with seats salvaged from a nearby cinema. In 1992, it attained a permanent space beside the Usher Hall on Lothian Road, where it still operates today, and still promotes new writing, as well as working with schools and youth groups.<\/p>\n<h3>Universities on World Theatre Day<\/h3>\n<p>Aside from the excellent collection of 20th-century dramatic texts by a range of international writers in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-location\/our-campuses\/libraries-and-heritage-collections\/heritage-collections\/jim-haynes-archive\">Merchiston Library,<\/a> it is also the location of the archive of the aforementioned Jim Haynes, which he personally donated to the university. Haynes lived an intriguing, quixotic life \u2013 originally from the US, served in their air force, then settled in Scotland after being stationed in Kirknewton. He moved to Edinburgh, where he lived for over two decades, setting up the first paperback bookshop in Scotland, and later moved to Paris, where he lived until the end of his life in 2021. Professionally, he was a bookseller and magazine editor, but perhaps his key skill perhaps was connecting people together \u2013 his obituary here by James Campbell captures this well.<\/p>\n<p>In more recent times, student theatre is often a source of new energy in drama in the city. Theatre Paradok, set up by Edinburgh University students but not limited to the institution, performs adapted work, and occasionally original writing by students. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen was ambitiously staged upstairs in the old Forest Caf\u00e9 on 3 Bristo Place, a social space, caf\u00e9 and hub for all sorts of DIY arts endeavours; Grimm Tales (a dark adaptation of the famous children\u2019s stories) was a promenade piece in the basement of McEwan Hall. Closer to home, our own Napier University Drama Society performs original work that ranges from plays to improvised comedy routines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kieran Curran<\/p>\n<p>Read about Edinburgh Napier taking over the Fringe Festival last <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2024\/08\/20\/edinburgh-napier-at-the-fringe\/\">year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Theatre\u00a0 Day 2025 &nbsp; As it is World Theatre Day today, it seems appropriate to write a little about Edinburgh\u2019s illustrious history and continued tradition of dramatic performance. Edinburgh And Theatre Perhaps the first thing people think of is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 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