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Drama

Drama Drama Throughout Shetland, there is a long tradition of writing dialect sketches and short plays for local performances. They were usually humorous, rarely intended for a wide audience, and few survive from very long ago. Those which do are usually too topical to their time to be used nowadays. Major drama productions i.e. on the Lerwick stage, were almost always in English until quite recently.

The writing tradition, however, continues in several places, and is greatly appreciated by local audiences. It is common to have locally-written material at the annual Drama Festival of one-act plays, and adjudicators from the Scottish mainland often comment on the fact. In recent years, play writing, like drama performances, has been encouraged and publicly supported with professional input, and this has widened the range and varied the style of locally-written plays.

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  • Dancin wi da Mune (Extract 1)
  • Dancin wi da Mune (Extract 2 - Up-Helly-Aa scene)
  • It wis herd wark, but
  • Looking Ta Da Staars
  • Tangle Bells
  • The Story of Maggie Reid
  • Timeshare
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