Positive Stories Festival – Dumfries

Sat 20 Sep 6200 – Wed 20 Sep 0400

Positive Stories Festival – Dumfries

Theatre Royal Dumfries

58-70 Shakespeare Street, Dumfries, DG1 2JH

Afternoon Performance £5/£3 | Evening Performance £8/£5

This season of Positive Stories for Negative Times promises even more and they are excited to present this year’s plays performed by Guild of Players, Catstrand, Wallace Hall Academy and a Scratch performance.

Positive Stories for Negative Times is an international participatory project offering organisations who work with young people a process, newly commissioned plays and training by the best theatre artists working in the UK free of charge.

Wonder Fools and the Traverse Theatre have presented four seasons of the project so far, reaching over 14,000 young people from 24 different countries including UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden.

To find out more about this free project, please visit www.positivestories.scot.

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