CURRENT
NEWS (updated monthly)
April
2008
KATE DICKIE stars in HE KILLS COPPERS on ITV1 on Sunday 6th
April (out on DVD soon) and in SOMERSTOWN, directed by Shane Meadows, which
received its premier at the Berlin Film Festival. Kate co-stars in the new
feature SUMMER, with Robert Carlyle, is in SPEED RACER for the Wachowski Bros.
opening soon worldwide, and has just wrapped ROUNDING UP DONKEYS, co-starring
James Cosmo and MARTIN COMPSTON, who has also completed filming on RED
MIST (American
horror feature co-starring Andrew Lee Potts) and has just opened in the USA in
DOOMSDAY, co-starring Rhona Mitri and Malcolm McDowell (UK premiere, May 9th) ~
NEW TOWN KILLERS, directed by Richard Jobson, will feature JOHN YULE and BILLY RIDDOCH ~ JULIET CADZOW is attached to COWBOYS FOR
CHRIST (a new Scottish based feature) along with KEITH WARWICK, SCOTT
HOATSON and
AILEDH MACKAY ~
WASTED, another new Scottish feature, will star NEIL LEIPER, and films in May, directed
by Stuart Davids and Caroline Patterson ~ GORDON BROWN has just completed filming on
BRONSON ~
Filming has begun on PURVES AND PEKKALA for Annie Griffin
and Pirate Productions featuring JORDAN YOUNG, EWAN DONALD and JULIET CADZOW ~ KARI CORBETT will be back on THE ROYAL on
ITV1 soon ~ SHABANA BAKHSH will return to WATERLOO ROAD, filming from May to November
(the season is to be screened on BBC1 in late 2008) ~ JANINE MELLOR continues into her fourth
year on CASUALTY (BBC1) as series regular Kelsey ~ MARTIN DOCHERTY will be filming the new series
of DEAR GREEN PLACE for the Comedy Unit/BBC Scotland in the summer ~ JULIE
HALE is on
FAIR CITY for RTE ~ LINZI CAMPBELL makes her TV debut in TAGGART next month
~ Eileen McCallum, Gordon McCorkell and Michelle O'Brien are filming ongoing Scottish
drama RIVER CITY, and ANNE DOWNIE and NICK FARR have guest roles in the
summer ~ On CBBC, JULIET CADZOW is Edie McRedie in BALAMORY, JENNIFER
LOWRIE is in
HEDZ and ROSS ALLAN plays
Nurse Henry in ME TOO! ~
SABRINA CARTER is joining the cast of WICKED in London in June ~ JONATHAN HOLT is on the acclaimed tour of BLACK WATCH (National Theatre of
Scotland), arriving at the Barbican in London in June ~ KIM GERARD and AMANDA BEVERIDGE lead VANITY FAIR at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh,
until the 12th ~ SHONAGH PRICE is blowing
TRUMPETS AND RASPBERRIES at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, from the 18th ~ DAVID
FITZGERALD is in MARTHA on tour ~ SCOTT HOATSON leads THE WALL on its Scottish national tour ~ GREG POWRIE and DOUGAL LEE are in the company of
the Pitlochry Festival Season 2008, opening 16th May with WILD HONEY ~ HELEN
MCALPINE leads SWINDLE
AND DEATH for Mull Theatre on tour -
REBECCA MCQUILLAN will be appearing in
THE SOUND OF MY VOICE at the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow, in May ~ AGNIESKA
BRESLER is work-shopping new material for the
Playwrights Studio, Glasgow, and CAMERON MOWATT is
work-shopping new work with Dundee Rep ~
CLARE WAUGH is recording for BBC radio while GREG POWRIE is assisting Paul Temple in his new adventure on Radio 4 and NICK
FARR is featured in the BBC Radio 4 serial AN
EXPERT IN MURDER, which broadcasts from the end of the month.
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.