Create A Drama Out Of Leith Docks Crisis

Those of you who have got a taste for local drama after getting sucked into the ongoing stooshie over the regeneration of Leith Docks might be interested to hear about a project by new Edinburgh based theatre group ACTive INquiry. Here's what they say about it:

"ACTive INquiry is a new Scottish theatre company and promotes increased participation in the arts as a catalyst for active involvement in society. We work mostly with non-theatre professionals and in a type of theatre called Forum Theatre which actively engages the audience in a research process by enabling them to question what is happening in a play and even change its outcome!

We are lucky enough to have received some funding to start a unique theatre project in Leith called Space which will explore our relationship to the space around us and ask the question what is public space and what should it be?

We hope to get as many people along to the taster day on the 14th of March as possible from a variety of Leith-based organisations to start to explore this question. NO PREVIOUS THEATRE EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED, just an interest in the subject matter. If people are interested in taking this further then there will be opportunities to become involved with the bigger project."

Indeed, they plan to put on a show at this years Leith Festival we're told. The Taster Day will take place on the 14th of March, 2009 1-5pm at St James Church Hall. You can download a flyer for the event by clicking here (pdf).