Tag: The Bard

From Bard to verse – this week long celebration of Robert Burns is simply brilliant

Entertainment

Jean West - January 29, 2019

Edinburgh has a new festival - and it's a braw addition to the city's cultural offering IT IS oddly surreal, almost up there with...

THEATRE – (not so) Shitfaced Shakespeare

Entertainment

Deadline News Journalist - August 15, 2018

“It’s much better shitfaced, don’t you think?” I’m not convinced. Five classically trained Shakespearean actors, one of whom had supposedly drunk ¾ of a...

Letter penned by Robert Burns discovered at Scottish castle

Scottish News

Christine Lavelle - January 24, 2011

AN unpublished letter written by poet Robert Burns more than 200 years ago has been discovered at a Scottish Castle. The letter – which contains...

New Robert Burns museum features cast of Bard’s skull

Deadline News Journalist - August 22, 2010

By Oliver Farrimond A NEW £21 million museum celebrating the life of Robert Burns is set to open in Alloway on 1 December this year. The...

Alex Salmond launches world’s largest collection of whisky

Deadline News Journalist - May 1, 2009

By Oliver Farrimond THE WORLD’S largest collection of Scottish whiskies was officially unveiled in Edinburgh yesterday by First Minister Alex Salmond. Visitors will be able to...