CURRENT
NEWS (updated monthly)
February/March
2008
KATE DICKIE stars in SOMERS TOWN, directed by Shane Meadows, which
received its world premier at the Berlin Film Festival this month and in
TAGGART: ISLAND broadcast on the 27th on ITV1. She co-stars in the
new feature SUMMER, directed by Kenny Glenan, HE KILLS COPPERS, showing soon on Ch 4, and is
in SPEED RACER for the Wachowski Bros opening in the Summer. Kate is currently
filming ROUNDING UP DONKEYS, co-starring James Cosmo and MARTIN COMPSTON, who is completing RED MIST (American horror feature
co-starring Andrew Lee Potts) and opens soon in DOOMSDAY, co-starring Rhona
Mitri, Bob Hoskins and Malcolm McDowell (March 14th USA premiere) ~ KARI
CORBETT will be
back on THE ROYAL on ITV1 in the new series broadcast soon ~ SHABANA BAKHSH will return to WATERLOO ROAD,
filming the next series from May to November, as series 3 is ending its current
run on BBC1 ~ JANINE MELLOR continues into her fourth year on CASUALTY (BBC1) ~
HOPE ROSS
features in the supporting cast of
Scottish feature ROUNDING UP DONKEYS ~ ANNE DOWNIE has just wrapped the
independent feature RUNNING IN TRAFFIC opposite Kenneth Cranham ~ REBECCA
ELISE leads
BULB and REBECCA SLOYAN
leads ICE PLANT at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, France ~ WILLIAM
RUANE is
currently WAITING FOR GODOT at the Citizens, Glasgow, and stars in KICK ABOUT
at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival ~ JULIE HALE is on FAIR CITY for RTE ~ LINZI
CAMPBELL
makes her TV debut in TAGGART in the Spring ~ Eileen
McCallum, Gordon McCorkell
and Michelle O'Brien have returned to filming
ongoing Scottish drama RIVER CITY ~ On CBBC JULIET CADZOW is Edie McRedie in BALAMORY, JENNIFER LOWRIE is in the cast of HEDZ and ROSS
ALLAN plays
Nurse Henry in ME TOO! ~ JONATHAN HOLT is on the
acclaimed tour of BLACK WATCH (National Theatre of Scotland), arriving at the
Barbican in London in June ~ DAVID IRELAND and IONIA
NI CHROININ are currently touring Ireland in two
new plays ~ KIM GERARD and AMANDA BEVERIDGE lead VANITY FAIR at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh ~ GREG POWRIE and DOUGAL LEE will be in the company
of the Pitlochry Festival Season 2008 from March ~ CAMERON MOWAT and KIRSTY MACKAY are in SIX
CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR for the National Theatre of Scotland ~ SHONAGH
PRICE will be blowing TRUMPETS AND RASPBERRIES at
the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh ~ DAVID FITZGERALD
is in MARTHA on tour ~ SCOTT HOATSON leads THE
WALL on its Scottish national tour ~ BILLY RIDDOCH, UMAR AHMED, CLARE WAUGH and HELEN MCALPINE are all appearing
at Oran Mor, Glasgow, in the March A PLAY, A PIE AND A PINT season ~ NICK
FARR leads POETRY FOR BEGINNERS on Radio 4 ~ Bryan Lowe stars in SATURDAY,
SUNDAY, MONDAY on Radio 4 ~ NOREEN LEIGHTON is in THE FALL and GREG POWRIE is assisting Paul Temple in his new
adventure on Radio 4 in April ~ EILEEN MCCALLUM stars
in NEVER THE BRIDE on Radio BBC 7 and is featured in the Radio section of the
Radio Times, for Sunday 2nd March.
HUNWICK HUGHES is the sponsor of the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Schools Programme and a co-sponsor of
the Royal National Theatre New Connections Youth Theatre Festival in Scotland at the Lyceum in July, 2008.
HUNWICK HUGHES
(formerly 41 Management ) was the sole sponsor the Royal National Theatre
Connections
Youth Theatre
Festival in Scotland in 2007.