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Positive Stories Festival – Edinburgh

Traverse Theatre
10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED
Afternoon: £5 / Concession £3 I Evening Double Bill: Price £8 / Concession £5

This Season promises even more and they are excited to present this year’s plays performed by Beath High School, The Lyceum Youth Theatre, The Drama Mill, Nairn Youth Theatre, Firefly Arts, Studio 38, Wonder Fools Youth Board and Rosehill High School.

Plays by Travis Alabanza, Ella Hickson, Douglas Maxwell, Bryony Kimmings and Leyla Josephine.

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 project, please visit www.positivestories.scot

Festival Schedule

Fri 13 Jun

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Beath High School – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

8.30pm – 9.15pm: The Lyceum Youth Theatre – Roman Cardboard Swift by Ella Hickson

Sat 14 Jun

4:30pm – 5.15pm: The Drama Mill – At First I Was Afraid…I Was Petrified! by Douglas Maxwell

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Nairn Youth Theatre – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

8.30pm – 9.15pm: Firefly Arts – Revolting by Bryony Kimmings

Sun 15 Jun

4.30pm – 5.15pm: Studio 38 – Miss Campbell’s Class Fifth Period by Leyla Josephine

7.30pm – 8.15pm: Wonder Fools Youth Board

8.30pm – 9.15pm: Rosehill High School – We Ain’t Movin’ by Travis Alabanza

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