Each December, Scottish theatre turns itself over, almost entirely, to pantomimes and Christmas shows.
Each December, Scottish theatre turns itself over, almost entirely, to pantomimes and Christmas shows.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society
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The Traverse Theatre’s play The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society is a defiantly alternative piece of seasonal theatre, writes Mark Brown
So popular is festive theatre that – with a jocular "ho! ho! ho!" – it bundles its way down the cultural chimney and takes over almost every stage in the land.
The most notable exception to the yuletide switch from normal service, this year as last, is the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Following on from 2011's winter production The Tree Of Knowledge (Jo Clifford's comedy about the arrival of David Hume and Adam Smith in 21st-century Edinburgh), recently appointed Traverse director Orla O'Loughlin is opting this year for another defiantly alternative seasonal offering.
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